Illustrating Scrambled Egg
An attempt at painting scrambled eggs results in this amorphous yellow blob that barely looks edible. As much as I love the shadows and textures achieved in this image, for the life of me, I can't even read this as being scrambled eggs. It might look like Polenta?
Or, maybe a really yellow curry sauce? Definitely not scrambled eggs!
Art Journal Study for the "Everyday Life" collection10,000 hours to Mastery
On the other hand, I got to use my eco-friendly pigments from Natural Earth Paints to mix this Terre Verte (name of the pigment) color with an acrylic matte medium and create this luscious background. Yeah! I also think the fork and spoon collage elements are not too bad - in a mad hatter kind of way.
I learned somewhere that it takes about 10,000 hours of work to master a craft. Let's just chuck this attempt at illustrating scrambled eggs as hour number 795 (number of estimated paintings and drawings from kindergarten to this day, including doodling and art drills).
The Process
A combination of markers, acrylic, pen, ink and gouache allowed me to get this far into the painting but I definitely need some serious practice to one day create believable, delicious scrambled eggs!
Other illustrations in this collection:
ART JOURNAL STUDIES
- Taisun's Peach
- Par Avion
- Eggs & Coffee
- Soursop Juice
More Artwork Added to the collection:
- Dried Sweet Pea Pods
- Pantry
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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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