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This painting is another in a series I call "Kitchen Art". It shows a pot on our cook-top with four artichokes on a steamer. I took a photo just before my wife put the top on the pot. As you might expect, all of these Kitchen Art paintings are on our kitchen walls!
This 9x12" painting was done using acrylic paint watercolor-style on 140 lb watercolor paper that was bonded to an MDF panel using spray adhesive.
Several coats of acrylic gloss medium/varnish were applied to finish the painting.

About the Artist, Mike Robles I am a senior artist and a native Californian. I was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from Carlmont High School, Belmont in 1958. I graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 1963 with a BS in Physical Sciences. One week after graduating, I married Jane and this year we’ll be celebrating our 50th anniversary. My career as an analytical chemist for GE Nuclear Energy started in 1963 at the Hanford Engineering Works in Eastern Washington. In 1969, my family (wife and two sons) and I moved back to California and settled in Livermore. I continued working for GE for most of my 40 year career. I was exposed to art at a young age by my extremely gifted artist mother and step-father. But, I...