Wander and Paint — #Wild Foods

Blue Cactus Atmospheric Botanical Painting - Edible Botanicals Collection

• Botanical Art • botanical illustration • foraged foods • pattern design • prickly pear • Sustainable gardens • watercolor art • watercolor paintings • Wild foods

Blue Cactus Atmospheric Botanical Painting - Edible Botanicals Collection

[...] the second piece in the collection of Edible Botanicals. This time I'm tackling the humble Prickly Pear Cactus...

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Everyday Life #6 Fermented Radish

• art journals • colorful • cookbook illustrations • Editorial illustration • Food illustration • Gouache • hand-painted • Illustrated art journals • Kitchen Wall Art • Pen and Ink • Radish • recipe illustration • slow food • watercolor art journals • Wild foods

Everyday Life #6  Fermented Radish

[...]Between research, ideation, material and final rendering, the entire creative process took seven active hours to complete over two days....

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100 Wild Meals Illustrated - Call for Wild Food Recipes

• Art for sale • foraged foods • Kitchen Wall Art • pencil sketches • recipe illustration • Wild foods

100 Wild Meals Illustrated -  Call for Wild Food Recipes

[...] So if someone is out there who knows opened -source, copyright free, public domain, creative commons sources of delicious recipes that I could tweak to my taste and then illustrate, that would be out of this world!...

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For Immediate Release: Foraged Food Will Overcome

• art exhibitions • Art for sale • chicken-of-the-woods mushrooms • colorful • flower salad • Food illustration • recipe illustration • Visual Art • watercolor art • Watercolor Illustrations • Wild foods • Wild garlic soup • wild oregon grapes

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 - Weeds & Wildflowers Salad Recipe

• Atmospheric • edible weeds • Food • foraged foods • garlic chives • oxeye daisies • slow food • slow travel • visual journalism • watercolor • weeds • Wild foods

100 Wild Dining Illustrated - Weeds & Wildflowers Salad Recipe

[...] One requirement was that the resulting work had to either inform or visually explain an issue to a larger audience. As an organic, slow food and fresh food advocate, the concept for the "Wild Dining Illustrated" series crystallized after a few days of introspection focused...

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