Tomatoes and Tableaus

I LOVE tomatoes...look what our across-the-street neighbors brought us this afternoon.  Yum!

I found an old leftover currency bill from my trip to Peru, so I decided to tear out the beautiful aviator Peruvian woman printed on it to make another encaustic painting.

Geez.  These paints are so fun to work with.

I keep looking at this combo on my fireplace mantle and trying to think of how to interpret it in an abstracted encaustic still life.   The colors of the gourds, the swirls on the cat, the mortar between the stones, make me think I need to try it.