Grape

Grapes were so beautiful, semi-transparent, sweet, seedless..
It took two sessions to draw and to paint this still life in 4 days.
The plate was waiting in the fridge between sessions.
And was emptied while the last stroke was still wet on the paper. 

Porcino Soup

When dad was alive  they had tradition to go mushroom hunting. Last years he did not see well, but still was very good in orientation in the wood, opposite to mother, she was responsible for locking "bearing areas" and collecting mushrooms. This is her first autumn without him. She hears everywhere about reach harvest of mushrooms in the woods but afraid to be lost when hunting.

Yesterday I bought these porcinos (No idea how you name them in English, so I use Italian version, sorry). They were so beautiful and smelled so good! I painted them and made mushroom soup afterwards.

5-6 big porcinos cut  to pieces, boil for 40 minutes.
Add potato divided in cubes, browned onion and browned carrot and keep boiling for 10-12 minutes.
Add salt and boil 2 min. more.
Serve with sour creme.

Statuettes

 Now I work up old ceramic statuettes in my friends' houses. One hour work in ink and a bit of color later.  Still no time for "meditative dance" with watercolor...

Hairdryer

Hairdryer (1985 version). Pentel Colorbrush+NeocolorII sticks

I keep doing quick studies in my sketchbook (armed with ROTRING artpen and PENTEL Sepia colorbrush) and hope to slow down soon and be back to watercolor experiments and pastel exercises.

My glasses; Angel on the shelf; Armchair inspired by IKEA catalogue

I want to share with you today the link to the blog of Simone - her post presenting free "Social Media Buttons" for your blog. They are very good looking and saving so much time of struggling with html and other complex programming depths for the humanitarians to get together links to all our on-line expositions..