Wander and Paint — cookbook illustrations

100 Wild Dining Illustrated - Wild Oregon Grapes Breakfast Parfait Recipe

• breakfast • cookbook illustrations • Food illustration • foraged foods • jams • parfait • pencil sketches • recipes • slow food • watercolor art

100 Wild Dining Illustrated - Wild Oregon Grapes Breakfast Parfait Recipe

[...] You can find not one, but two, jam recipes in the resource section. For myself, I'm having way too much fun depicting what is essentially slabs of yogurt or sour cream trapped in gooey goodness and coming up with my own parfait concoction...

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100 Wild Dining Illustrated - Ostrich Fern Pizza

• cookbook illustrations • drawings • Food illustration • forage foods • Ostrich Fern • pencil sketches • slow food • Wild foods

100 Wild Dining Illustrated - Ostrich Fern Pizza

It was dark in the garden but I was hooked.

A friend of mine, a few years ago, introduced me to wood-fired ostrich fern pizza. Me and a group of friends had to hunt for the fiddle heads first throughout the garden, where there was barely any light left in the sky to illuminate the way-- and it was damp.

..but so worth the wait...

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100 Wild Dining Illustrated - Wild Garlic Mustard Pesto and Polenta

• cookbook illustrations • drawings • Food illustration • forage foods • Meals • pencil sketches • Process drawings • Process sketches • Wild foods

100 Wild Dining Illustrated - Wild Garlic Mustard Pesto and Polenta

[...]. Even though I unfailingly destroy the crisp layer on the polenta squares every time I make them, I forever keep trying to achieve a perfect crispy skin. One day I will succeed - whenever I  finally dedicate time to do it right...

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100 Wild Dining Illustrated Meals - Project Update

• Botanical Art • cookbook illustrations • foraged foods • Magical Realism • pencil sketches • recipes • storyboards • thumbnails • watercolor prints • wild oregon grapes

100 Wild Dining Illustrated Meals - Project Update

The state of the union thus far: Made some significant thumbnail sketch progress on the Beverage, Main Dish, Dessert and Mushroom chapters of the 100 Wild Dining Illustrated Meals project: 28 done. 73 more to go!...

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