Accepted in juried art show!
09/27/2022
After much hemming and hawing, I finally decided to enter a local Juried Art Show. This is the first time I have entered any art show. Two of my favorites were selected: Farmers Market Carrots and Pumpkin.
I brought these carrots home from the farmers market, scrubbed off the dirt, thinking we’d roast them on the BQ for dinner, but they were so photogenic, I just had to draw them first. I used a Uniball Signo 1.0 black gel pen, added some bright yellow-green-orange watercolor, then some complimentary blue-purple background colors.
Roasted with olive oil, and sprinkle of salt, they didn’t look nearly as good, but they were delicious eating! We ate them all for appetizers. Quick and easy. Try this sometime.
The pumpkin I found at my favorite plant nursery. Unlike supermarket pumpkins, this one had an irresistible jagged stem, just begging to be drawn. Drawn with a 6.0 mm Pilot Parallel Pen, black ink, on cold press watercolor paper, hence the irregular crayon look. The ink was still a bit wet when I added watercolor with a broad edge brush, wet at the top of the pumpkin, drier on the sides. I can still feel the energy of drawing this.
