Custard Cream
Posted: February 29, 2012 Filed under: Biscuit Tin Leave a comment »
The Custard Cream. Well … er… I … have to admit … I’m not really keen on this biscuit.(Yes, I know I’ve just started with a deep favourite, but …) I do, however, love the fact that ALL custard cream’s are decorated with the weird swirly patterns (I think they’re supposed to be ferns). They’re clearly been around for ages. and have stood the test of time. Which I have to tip my hat to… Well done, custard cream.
The Golden Crunch Cream
Posted: February 28, 2012 Filed under: Biscuit Tin, Food 3 Comments »
Well, in the absence of Sports Biscuits (which I seem to be having trouble finding anywhere) I shall have to start this set with my second favourite biscuit – The Golden Crunch Cream.
Actually is it possible to have a favourite biscuit? Surely there is a biscuit for every situation.
Sunday morning service
Posted: February 27, 2012 Filed under: Urban Sketches 2 Comments »
Converted from an old chapel this building is now used for another kind of worship.
My initial drawing of this public house was interrupted…
… it was early one Sunday morning. I was positioned in the sheltered car park opposite the grand facade. The bells for church had only just finished peeling, in fact, when I heard several drunken ‘blokes’ staggering down the street … coming in my direction.
Two passed by, and as they passed turned back to another fellow to shout ‘Hey, Andy, he’s drawing you!’
A few second passed when ‘Andy’ came into view… stopped right in front of me, about two feet away… and dropped his trousers and pants!
And stood there swaying … in the breeze.
He stood there for a few moments, then pulled his clothes back up and staggered off!
(Of course I would have drawn Andy and his ‘tackle’ … but I didn’t have a small enough pen!)
Still stewing
Posted: February 25, 2012 Filed under: Food Leave a comment »
Ah, inspiration! 5% perspiration and 95% inspiration, or something like that, I think! Any way – this illustration has been hidden away in Book 18 since the beginning of November last year. It was the first illustration that I submitted to ‘Camping and Caravanning Magazine’ for their Eat Local article.
This article, which was in the January issue, was about camping sites selling locally produced veggies and Ali Ray, the author, included this recipe for a Vegetable and Sausage Stew.
Sketching out the recipe made me realise; most recipes don’t need a lot of writing’ All I want a recipe to tell me are the ingredients and the order that they are added (Okay, maybe a few more bits of information as well!)
The magazine only used a handful of the elements I submitted, but it set me off on my current fad of recipe drawing.
Lamb Rogan Josh
Posted: February 18, 2012 Filed under: Food 1 Comment »
I feel like I’m just emerging from a winter creativity freeze. For the last couple of months my creativity has been in a real torpor. My mojo absent.
I’ve been toying with the notion of trying to illustrate recipes – using as little text as possible. Not so that it would be filled with iconography, but rather sketches of ingredients and/or preparation methods.
Okay this first curry is from Kashmir. I’m not a huge fan of the spicier and dryer curries of India and Pakistan. There’s a sweetness from the ginger and the tomatoes and the pepper that I love in this dish.
I just need to tinker with this drawing a little (and the Thai Prawn Curry) just to make it clearer what order the recipe needs to be followed in. Both require a curry paste to be made, which needs to be seperate from the throwing-stuff-in-the-pan part. I think I’ll go with numbers and arrows this time. Although someone did suggest a dotted through-line.
Red Prawn Curry
Posted: February 18, 2012 Filed under: Food 6 Comments »
Thai. Not tried this recipe before, but once the paste has been made there are only a small handful of other ingredients.
Chicken and Sweet Potato Curry
Posted: February 17, 2012 Filed under: Food Leave a comment »
Vietnamese. My number one favourite curry recipe. Spicy and fragrant. I love the lemongrass hit that this curry gives, especially once it’s been allowed to be reheated to the point where the carrot and the sweet potato have diffused into the curry, giving it a further richness and thickness.
Out of the three illustrated recipes I tackled I’m most pleased with this one. I think the portrait orientation of the page lends itself particularly well to recipe drawing.
