"The Artist's Corner..."

"Homeland"

Oil on canvas

Cecilia Cardiff

What I Like About This:  Here is another work featuring perhaps my favorite subject genre, waiters and servers and scenes of dining and leisure, which are a focus of this artist's oeuvre. Perhaps my own current infatuation with these types of paintings stems from my lifelong love of dining out.  It's been nearly 3 years since my family and I have dined out in a restaurant or any other venue since December of 2019, when I was carefully watching events unfolding in China and knew without a doubt that the unfolding global pandemic would soon greet America's shore too.  The style of this work is typical of one that I find most aesthetically pleasing by virtue of its lack of minute detail and sharp focus. I love how the soft and blurred lines and bold effulgent brush strokes and colors leave to the viewer's imagination the task of "completing the picture," if you will. More specifically, this painting reminds me of a summer excursion my husband and children took to Michigan's Mackinac Island some years ago and our luncheon on the lawn of the Grand Hotel overlooking the straits.