"The Finished Painting...My Table Garden"

Hi everyone, I hope you are having a wonderful Monday! I finally, finally finished this ambitious painting! It is an oil, 16 x 20, larger than I have been doing all summer. I really enjoyed painting larger..somehow it seems more viable art than doing some tiny thing. I used a nice pot of Angelonia on the right, the tall purple spikes. I will now plant them in the garden and hope they continue to bloom for a couple of months. I still have lots of zinnias in the garden and as they die, I pull off the seeds and scatter them, getting more. They are so easy to grow and give so much color.
I love the shadows of the leaves on the pots in this painting and the folds of the fabric at the bottom. My "table garden" is no more...I have dissected it, ate the fruit, am going to plant the potted plants and throw out the now spent zinnias. When you entertain guests, why not set up your own still life arrangement as if you intend to do a painting, and use it as a buffet centerpiece? Wouldn't something like this be pretty on a table with dishes of food placed around, instead of the food dishes simply placed on a flat cloth!  Let's get creative!