Draw a Recipe (not): EDM Challenge #75

This week’s Every Day Matters challenge was to write and illustrate a favorite recipe. I felt guilty that I haven’t been putting any effort into cooking in order to spend more time in the studio and couldn’t think of a favorite recipe it had been so long since I’d looked at one. Then Anita, an amazing botanical and nature artist on the Botanical Arts group on Yahoo wrote that she has a little plaque in her kitchen with these words and then I knew what to do with this challenge! Now I can hang this in MY kitchen and stop feeling guilty for my lackluster meals.

I already had the vegetables out for the watercolor class I’m teaching that started this morning. Often students find drawing and painting vegetables to be an easy way to get started in watercolor. But this group ignored the easy veges and jumped right into complex paintings. They’re such a talented group. I think I’m going to learn as much from them as they will (hopefully) learn from me.

This is watercolor on Arches hot press paper. I dragged out my old caligraphy fountain and dip pens, but they wouldn’t work right on cold press paper so I switched to hot press paper but they didn’t work on it either. And the ink wasn’t really waterproof (though it was waterproof enough to thoroughly stain 4 fingers). So I gave up on the caligraphy pens and just used a marker, which I’m not liking much, but, as my wonderful boss Ruth often says, “Good enough is good enough” or “It’s close enough for jazz!”