"Yellow on Plaid"

I got up early enough today that I decided to work on a big beach painting I'm doing. This painting was sort of an afterthought since I needed a break from the other one. I didn't have high expectations for this. As I was working on this I could almost hear my dad telling me not to mess around-- I had terrible lighting since one of my lamps tipped over and went out the other day; I was using a terrible brush, all my apples floating around the studio are getting old and mushy, and I knew my kids were going to wake up any second. Considering the circumstances, I thought this one turned out ok.