Gluttony at Art Camp

I spent the past week at Idyllwild Arts, taking a Narrative Figure Painting workshop with Rebecca Campbell.
It was fantastic, and got me started on a new painting series.

Today, however, I'm sharing the shots of what I was calling "veg on a saucer" when I posted them on Instagram. There is an odd compositional logic happening, in an institutional sort of way.
Monday's 5-6 dried out carrots got me started, they looked so absurd:

Funny, no?
Ah, the joys of boarding school food...