Tuesday, September 7, 2010

More Food Themed Drawings

The last 5 sketches in my book have a food theme.














The nudes were done at a Dr Sketchy life drawing event. The reclining model had cupcake pasties and those are blueberries on her apron. I drew them with a ballpoint pen, I think I should have planned my materials better.






















Radishes drawn with a micron pen and Prismacolor markers.






















Tomatoes drawn with a Micron pen and watercolors






















My daughter came in while I was doing this page and remarked it was creepy. I have no idea why I was drawing things that could be dangerous.























I took photos around Minneapolis including the Farmers Market, baked pies and made corned beef with cabbage. The pear blueberry pie was inspired by a bowl of pears no one was eating and the remainder of the blueberries. The ironic part is that the pear/blueberry combination was delicious and was more popular than the blueberry pie.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Day Ending At The Uptown Diner

My family members are good sports about letting me sketch things and while they say don't rush I'm not comfortable making them wait for me. It's good for making me draw quickly but I tend to get a little less detail sometimes than I would have preferred.

I was at Utrecht getting some supplies and spotted this interesting view of the Basilica of Saint Mary behind some other buildings in the alley. I liked the contrast of a very ornate, beautiful building tucked behind plain, serviceable space.







We then went to the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden where I did a sketch of the Spoonbridge and Cherry.


We finished with a trip to the Uptown Diner where I had an excellent club sandwich with a ridiculous amount of hash browns. I managed to eat about half of the hash browns and brought most of the sandwich home. The potatoes never saw a take out container since I had my husband along and well, they are hash browns.

The man in the diner had such interesting hair and a long graceful neck that he required a sketch while we were waiting for the food. I've noticed that even when you try to be subtle, people know when you look at them and looking at them more than once can certainly speed up their dining experience.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Grocery Store Picnic






















We revisited a park in Maple Grove, MN that the kids loved when they were younger. We stopped at Trader Joes for snacks before we went.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Pizza Pizza


Little Caesars had their grand opening yesterday. There was a store here previously and they returned after about a 10 years.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Lunch at Fogo de Chao

I can see why so many people rave about this restaurant. The service was excellent and the food, wonderful. I wrote down everything I ate, I would have drawn the dishes at the restaurant but I was too busy eating.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Cabbage Wedge

Cabbage is tasty to snack on and fun to draw, a perfect combo

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

More Food Drawings








































I've continued to do food drawings but they've been more like comic strip boxes so I have been rather lax about uploading them.