ASBA’s Show–Abundant Future: Cultivating Diversity in Garden, Farm, and Field

ASBA’s Show–Abundant Future: Cultivating Diversity in Garden, Farm, and Field

Sometimes when you start something, you have no idea where it will take you. I began this painting in 2017 because these beautiful peppers caught my eye at the Farmers’ Market one day. They started me on a journey of discovery, not only about how to depict their three dimensional twisting shape, glossy texture and […]

Farmer’s Market Series: Jimmy Nardello Peppers

Farmer’s Market Series: Jimmy Nardello Peppers

I’ve been wanting to make a series of vegetable paintings with roughly geometric compositions…not the perfect symmetry of say, Ernst Haekel‘s compositions, but something funkier befitting to veggies. The first painting in the series is a round cabbage, so next I wanted something more linear as a contrast. These peppers reminded me of calligraphic strokes…rather […]

Smuggling Radishes

We went out to eat and I had this pretty radish as a garnish beside my fritter. I smuggled the radish home in my purse so I could sketch it the next day. I sketched it in graphite first then water color and colored pencil to see which one I liked best. The water color […]