Category: Food

Day 292 – Inner Bean

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I love go sit in the inner bean and sketch the diners but I have never drawn it from this angle before. I say in the middle of the place drawing and nobody noticed me. They were all too busy with their conversations. 

There were all kinds of coffee things to draw from this angle. So many cups!!! 

I started by drawing the bar and as people filtered in I added them to the scene. Biggest problem is the counter is so high you can’t see the moms and their worker bees fixing coffee and sandwiches and cutting the delicious cakes. 

For some strange reason a lot of people were wearing black. It’s spring and it was Friday. Where are the bright colors?! I actually changed some of the black shirts to other colors or it would have been deathly dull. 

  
Noodler creaper Ahab loaded with carbon platinum black in my Stillman and Birn Zeta. 

Colors used. Flesh DS Quin Coral and Yellow Ochre 

The black – Indigo and Ultramarine Blue With burnt umber added now and then. 

Orange or red hair is actually the Quin Coral with yellow added to it. 

Otherwise most of the colors were straight off my pallette with little mixing. 

Thanks for looking!

Day 290 – A Special! 

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Only ten more days to go til I have posted 300 days in a row.  Who would have thought I would get this far. Not me!
You all know I like to draw my lunch breakfast dinner desert.  I like to draw food especially if it’s colorful.

 The inner bean special
 So today I drew my lunch.  The inner bean special which I highly recommend. A boarshead turkey blt topped with their homemade ranch dressing on oatmeal bread with a spring green salad and balsamic dressing.  Yum I even liked the purple onion and ranch dressing – two things I normally don’t eat. 

Drawn in my stillman and Birn Zeta with my Noodler Creaper Ahab with Carbon platinum black Ink. The Noodler flex nib pens are such fun because you can get such a great variety of line with them. They are inexpensive and my favorite pen. 

About the painting. 

Colors used. Every color on my pallette except viridian and phthalo green. 

The sand which was done by brushing it first with a mix of pale yellow ochre and raw Sienna with a tiny bit of indigo. I let it dry and sponged it with a darker version of the same mix at least twice.  The edge of the bread is burnt sienna burnt umber and ultramarine blue.  

First I washed the salad with a pale green made with sap green and a bit of cobalt. I let that dry and mixed the same colors making  a darker green. Last I added cobalt and ultramarine for the dark shadows. 

The red in the salad is vermilion. The darker red are done by adding cobalt to the mix. 

The walnuts are the same colors as the bread starting light and going darker with each wash adding ultramarine and burnt umber at the last to make the lights pop. 

Salad dressing is vermilion with bits of cobalt. 

Tea is burnt sienna cobalt and a bit of vermilion to make the purples. 

Napkin –  burnt sienna and cerulean. One of my favorite greys. 

The darkest greys and blacks are made with indigo and burnt umber sometimes with a dash of vermilion. 

Vermilion also makes a great purple onion. 

I did most of the shadowing with  burnt umber and ultramarine blue.  

  

TIP:  Shadows are important. The dark shadows serve to make the lights pop.  


 Can you see where I went back in and added the darker colors in this painting. I think it looks a lot better now.  What do you think? 

Thanks for looking! 

Day 281 – The Wild Plum Tea Room

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Lunch on a deck over a streams surrounded by flowering trees. Spring at its best in Gatlinburg. 
 

 Great charming ambience, terrific food on assorted old china plates. Wait staff is fabulous. 

 

  

 

This place won a well deserved Trip Advisor award of excellence in 2014. We will go back maybe even tomorrow!! 

I need to draw their lobster pie. Mike high lobster pie!! 

 

Desert was a gooey brownie sundae with chocolate chip ice cream with a wedge of pineapple.  I still have to paint it.  

This is colored with caran d’ache crayons over a watercolor base done with the crayons. Inked with my trusty Kuretake brush pen filled with Carbon Platinum black ink. 

Wish I had a few more things flowing over the border. Maybe I will cut something out and stick a few leaves on it?! Probably not.  On to the next picture. 

Thanks for looking.