Wander and Paint

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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Raw Pawpaw 1-2-3 Steps Sketch Preview

• Breakfast recipes • forage foods • Paw Paw • pencil sketches • Process drawings • Rough Drafts

Raw Pawpaw 1-2-3 Steps Sketch Preview

Mango and papaya drenched in lime juice with a strong dash of ginger? Heaven in my mouth, baby. Pawpaw, a native American fruit, has a custardy texture and taste not unlike banana, I'm told. Could this fruit be the great substitute contender to exotic mangos and papayas?...

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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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Painting Dragons: A Journey Back to Creativity - Part Three

• acrylic painting • Antigua • Guatemala • Murals • mythical beasts • slow travel • wanderlust

Painting Dragons: A Journey Back to Creativity - Part Three

[...] Parts of it still lives in the abstract world in my mind's eye. I can almost see its fragile tendrils gently reaching for me. This dragon wants to desperately be born. The only feeling I could related it to at the time was that of an echo of a distant dream, one that's right on the verge of being fully remembered, in full detail, all at once....

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