I painted the first watercolor illustration in the "Homo Sapiens plantae" collection, originally as a response to an Atlantic Monthly article questioning the trend of healthy food masquerading as junk food.
For such a profound question I used the fibonacci spiral and organic forms found in nature to come up with a concept that flowed an felt organic.
I used an underpainting of sepia, which I'd just learned about, and overlaid everything with watercolor.
It gave the final artwork so much more depth that I often use this layer in my creative workflow.
My take is that as much as I like my peas, veggie chips and graham crackers cereals, when it comes to the reality of my stomach's biology, I only feel satisfied when I'm eating real, unprocessed, whole foods. Hands-down.
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Public Announcement: This blog post is part of a collection of 354+ posts from my original Wordpress blog "Dreaming Into Being" library. I've now retired and migrated it to “Wander & Paint,” my new blog posts at the United Wanderlust art shop. As time allows, I will be reviewing, editing, condensing, updating and releasing a number of these blog posts but not all of them.
Some posts require more precision surgery than others. I'll also probably be publishing new posts as the muse wills it and father time allows. This whole process may take a while but I think these blog post serve as great documentation of my process and reminds me of certain milestones. So, most of them will be made available again- at some point.
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