Farmers Market

Our town of Pawling has a terrific farmers market. Today I was able to visit, a rarity as I usually work on Saturday mornings. I called in sick due to a dental emergency. Thankfully, I was able to venture out for a little while, whilst loaded up on Penicillin and Percocet. My husband was kind enough to put up with my demands of getting out of the house and guided me around the market. In my haze, I met up with some of the awesome vendors whose products I know and enjoy but had yet to meet. The visit wiped me out and I had a terrific nap afterwards. I plan on drawing and painting some of the items we attained today but it's slow going with this tooth pain. Above and below is some market-inspired art from weeks past))

 

The market mushrooms that inspired me to silkscreen at a recent workshop.

 

I printed some without the geometric background.

 

My favorite sourdough bread!

 

Carl felt we needed this HUGE piece of ginger, LOL. We are working on it!

 

The leeks were so tasty that week!

 

The red onions are one of my all time favorites, the tomatoes in this one are from our garden:) 

 

 

The original mushroom drawing that started it all ;)) 

 

Hopefully you have a farmers market in your area. I hope you can visit and enjoy as we do. Happy Labor Day weekend!

Fran xo

First week of January

It's an interesting week. I had off Monday and Tuesday and now back to work. I have been fortunate enough to be able to spend alot of time creating the past few days while I was off. I'd like to share what I'm up to here!

 

I love visiting a blog called Lucile's Kitchen . The other day I read a post related to pastry and bread. I just love how Lucille paints and I was inspired to paint some bread that my husband bought at a local deli. I just painted what was left of the loaf tonight:


From my art journal, 1-2-13. Some packaging labels and taking note of some awesome delicacies.

A fantastic Rumi quote/poem. I had so much fun creating this patchwork of paper, using the scraps from project below.

Here is a small photo collage of work that I did for a friend. She hasn't seen it yet however she doesn't follow my blog. She asks me every so often to make up custom business cards from old paintings that I would just get rid of or paint over. I didn't have to many this time so I made a few extra pages with just watercolor and random stamping. But overall it is fun to do, I don't have to do it too often and she gives me all the time I need to make them.

I hope a good week is had by all. Enjoy the year and all it holds for you. Thanks for stopping by and, always drop me a line I always love to get a hello!

 

Please go to Mary's blog and check out this easy going Link Up:

 

Take care and be well. Happy New Year!!!