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art, botanical art, colored pencil, drawing, fairies, food, gardening, illustration, sketchbook, Val Webb
‘Ruby Red’ Swiss chard, with its crinkled leaves and richly colored stems, is almost as much fun to draw as it is to eat. This year, instead of the traditional pot of New Year collards simmering on the stove, our first supper of 2012 was a chard and feta pie, incorporating ingredients from our winter garden. I love chard’s delicate spinach flavor and its prolific growing habit – plus, those lovely leaves are packed with Vitamins A, K, C and protein. And did I mention that fairies like it, as well?
This little drawing is colored pencil on acid-free vellum cardstock. Brilliant white with a smooth surface and a little more heft than drawing paper, premium cardstock makes a terrific sketching medium. Try it — you’ll be pleased.
great sketch to start the year with. You’ve got my curiosity up about the collard and feta pie!!
Beautiful work; thanks for reminding me that i should do some food drawing
Best of luck in a new year!!!!
Thank you!
Aww, that’s so precious ^^ I just ordered a batch of chard seeds yesterday (along with OODLES of other seeds, so very excited), and I can’t wait for them to arrive. They’re a different kind though, white-veined Dutch chard. But just as tasty :3
Your illustrations always manage to put a smile on my face, those delicate pencil colourings I could only dream of achieving, and you just manage to put down edibles so deliciously – almost as if you could pick the chard leaf right up and eat it
Please continue being awesome D: