Snowman: festive challenge - Day 6 - #adventcalendarart
Showing posts with label illustrating food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illustrating food. Show all posts
Friday, 9 December 2016
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
Friday, 2 December 2016
Winter Warmer
Winter Warmer: festive challenge - Day 2 - #adventcalendarart
Hot chocolate and tiny marshmallows.
Sunday, 18 September 2016
Food Play
Playing with food whilst waiting for my lunch—no prizes for guessing what I'm making! ;) Tomato and flowers come from my garden.
Friday, 5 August 2016
Foody Top Nine
Thursday, 4 August 2016
Finish Line
Three months of daily drawings, resulting in 100 completed illustrations. Quite a challenge and one I recommend. It helps with perseverance, personal style development, observation and colour play, plus there's a great online community to interact with and be inspired by.
For a selection from the series take a peek on my Instagram
Tuesday, 2 August 2016
Summer Breeze
There's nothing better than the beach to relieve tension and clear the mind—wind in your hair, the sound of the waves, golden sand between your wriggling toes–an icecream in hand to complete the picture.
Monday, 25 July 2016
Straw Hat
In the days that my mother was a stay at home mum with three young children, she enjoyed to cook. As a result, from an early age, we were used to eating international cuisine.
She also made staples of homemade jam and bread and cookies and it was not until I was a teenager that our mother gave in started to buy bread, because she had taken on a full time job. The Straw Hat, a local bakery was pretty good and the staff were familiar faces. On the odd occasion cakes were bought there too. I enjoyed the enormous meringues, smooth and crisp on the outside, filled with oodles of fluffy whipped cream and topped off with a bright red glace cherry and a sprinkling of chopped (greener than they nature had intended) pistachios. Another favourite of mine were the sugar coated doughnuts. These were filled with a bright red strawberry jam that would ooze out if you bit into it hard enough. Sometimes we would play a game, to see who could eat their doughnut without licking the sugar off their lips. A challenge that was accepted, and won a couple of times, but after that I preferred not to play, because it took the enjoyment out of the sugary doughnut experience.
These and more foody illustrations can be found on my Instagram as part of the #100dayproject. Tag: #100daysfoodanddrink
Sunday, 24 July 2016
British Bikkies
Jammy Dodgers
Chocolate filled Bourbon biscuits
Iced Gems
British biscuits remembered from childhood. In the summers we would often swim at my brother's elementary school, the Dragon. On the cycle ride back home, ravenous with hunger, we would stop off at a local supermarket and buy bags of iced gems. A bag full of delightful little biscuits, each with a crisp biscuit base, about the size of a euro coin that was topped off with hard, brightly coloured, piped icing shape.
This and more foody illustrations can be found on my Instagram as part of the #100dayproject. Tag: #100daysfoodanddrink
Saturday, 23 July 2016
Elderflower Magic
When I was a child, during often during the summer we would go to local farms and pick whatever fruits were in season. One for me, one for the basket, was the way my siblings and I passed the time. The visit would end with us, red-mouthed and feeling slightly sick. On other times we would forage in the hedgerows of the country lanes for: wild blackberries, sloes, elderflowers and their berries.
From all this produce, my mother would conjure up jams and jellies, pies, crumbles, puddings and elderflower champagne. Whilst in the basement, my father would wizard up bottles of elderflower wine and sloe gin.
Elderflower champagne was a family tradition and made by my mother. It was exciting to us kids, because it was fizzy, contained a small amount of alcohol and we were allowed to drink it! That coupled with the fact that once made, it had to be stored in sturdy, brown glass bottles with a screw top—because it might explode. Sometimes it did and the mess was extraordinary.
Within a couple of weeks, the elderflower champagne was ready to drink and often accompanied lunch in the garden. Served in dimpled half-pint beer tankards or long drink glasses.
This summer, from the elderflower tree in my garden, I have conjured up five bottles of the wonderful elixir and am sipping on a glassful as I write.
These and more foody illustrations can be found on my Instagram as part of the #100dayproject. Tag: #100daysfoodanddrink
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Vesper Shake
3 ounces Gordon’s gin
1 ounce vodka
1/2 ounce Kina Lillet
Green olives or twist of lemon peel
To make a Vesper, shake the gin, vodka and Kina Lillet with ice n a cocktail shaker.
Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with a green olive ir twist of lemon.
This and more foody illustrations can be found on my Instagram as part of the #100dayproject. Tag: #100daysfoodanddrink
Tuesday, 12 July 2016
Victorian Tea
Victoria sponge—an inadmissible recipe in cookery lessons from my school days. The cake, also known as Victoria sandwich, was named after Queen Victoria, who was said to be partial to a slice or two with her tea. For the classic recipe: here
This and more foody illustrations can be found on my Instagram as part of the #100dayproject. Tag: #100daysfoodanddrink
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Chocolate Trio
Friday, 1 July 2016
Delicious Half
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Lemon Sicilian
The ceramic pot above was purchased on a spring jaunt to the beautiful island of Sicily, Italy. The ceramic shops of Ortigia in Syracuse, are filled with the bright colours of Majolica, adorning every kind of household object or ornament you can think of. As you can imagine, this makes choosing one piece exceptionally difficult.
The lemon pot, was in a row of pots on top of a wardrobe. Each as different in size and decoration as can be, which meant although my eye was drawn to it, it didn't grab my attention. On the second visit, the pot was brought down for me to take a closer look. I admired the light flowing lines of the painted lemons and leaves, coupled with jade, ultramarine and a rosy glaze—I was sold!
This and more foody illustrations can be found on my Instagram as part of the #100dayproject. Tag: #100daysfoodanddrink
Tuesday, 28 June 2016
Gushing Eastwick
The sweet tang of eating cherries in the summer is a delight, but I am unable to eat them, without the scene from the film: The Witches of Eastwick, popping into my head—you know the one!
This and more foody illustrations can be found on my Instagram as part of the #100dayproject. Tag: #100daysfoodanddrink
Sunday, 26 June 2016
Royal Pea
This could very well be the pea from the fairytale: The Princess and the Pea.
A charming fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, about how the extreme sensitivity and hence proven royality of a young girl, was proved by the addition of a pea under her mattress.
This and more foody illustrations can be found on my Instagram as part of the #100dayproject. Tag: #100daysfoodanddrink
Saturday, 18 June 2016
Fruitful Design
Thursday, 16 June 2016
Coffee & Cake
Saturday, 11 June 2016
Sicilian Orange
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