Wander and Paint — Food illustration

KITCHEN MAGIC: Illustrated Interactive Cookbook - Morning Matcha Smoothie

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KITCHEN MAGIC: Illustrated Interactive Cookbook - Morning Matcha Smoothie

[...] I ended up going back to a looser, urban sketchy style of watercolor, pen and ink to put ideas on paper quickly. I started developing this style during my urban sketching escapades with Twin-Cities Urban Sketchers, in Minneapolis and later in Boston...

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For Immediate Release: Foraged Food Will Overcome

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For Immediate Release: Foraged Food Will Overcome

[...]WE SHALL OVERCOME EXHIBITION. Wednesday February 5, 2020, Woburn, Massachusetts.

Five food illustrations from Artist Patricia Jacques’ watercolor collection on foraging, “Wild Dining,” have been selected for a “Les Femmes Folles” online exhibition series. This collection of luminous watercolors, which represents resilience and practical self-care, was chosen in response to a LFF’s prompt, “We Shall Overcome...”

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100 Wild Dining Illustrated - Deep Fried Chicken-of-the-woods Mushrooms Recipe

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100 Wild Dining Illustrated - Deep Fried Chicken-of-the-woods Mushrooms Recipe

Always had a love affair with mushrooms and always will. So in this weeks edition of "Wild Dining Illustrated," I'm rendering a beautiful version of a recipe inspired from the Forager Chef...

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100 Wild Dining Illustrated - Wild Oregon Grapes Breakfast Parfait Recipe

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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

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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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