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"My wife makes beautiful quilts and smaller ones as decorations for tables.
I used one of them in this still life painting. I found these wonderful bottles and the jug at an
antique store about four miles from my studio. The jug was made in Mohawk, New York
and is a two gallon one. I loved the light glistening off the side of the jug as well as the patterns
of the quilt seen through the brown glass bottle on the left. I used two floodlights to get the
interesting shadows and highlights on the wood on the right foreground and the left background.
I remember setting this still life up in the antique shop and outside was one of the heaviest
snowfalls I've ever driven through. I was glad I had a four wheel drive vehicle that enabled me to
navigate the unplowed roads!"
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