No porcini around my house, unfortunately. Only interesting looking and probably rather indigestible mushrooms, the kind on which you could expect to find one of Tammie Lee's witches...Bella is intrigued by them, so we keep her under very close watch, in case she decided to take a bite off them..;)
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| From my front yard, courtesy of my mother in law |
In the past couple of days, I have been exploring the internet in search of colorful sweets to put in my Gingerbread home. So many choices...they made me ravenous for dessert while I was drawing! At this point, though, I am done drawing (fortunately) and I started coloring. I used Prismacolor markers (warm and cold grey 10% and brick white) to lay down some grey tones. I like doing this when trying to limit the saturation of my landscapes.
Now the real fun begins. :)
Wow, this has really come a long way from your sketch! Looks like it will be amazing when finished!
ReplyDeleteNow I am dealing with how to render the chocolate cookies vs. the butter ones, the wafers vs. the almond pastes: a thousand shades of beige and brown...;)
DeleteOh, very lovely and sweet drawing! I love colors now, but maybe children like more colors. It is coming very wonderful painting.
ReplyDeleteGreetings from Finland :-)
The sweets will be very colorful but sometimes if I don't tone down with great the background, everything becomes too bright. You'll see...:)
DeleteYour Hansel and Gretal drawing is coming along so beautifully, I have always found the tale facinating, as the thought of living in a gingerbread house seemed too exciting for words!!
ReplyDeleteTrue, as a kid I used to re-enact the story with friends, my poor battered old Barbie playing the witch. I always wondered why the witch would waste her time on catching children when she could bake so well! :D
Deletehello,
ReplyDeleteyou made me smile at the mention, thank you!
this photo of the mushroom i do believe is a shaggy mane which is edible and yum. BUT NOT at this point, bad bad at this point. It is also called an ink cap or inky cap, which means that as it ages and disintegrates it gets slimy and inky. But don't eat it because i think it is edible, good to do research and learn about each one.
I also love fresh Porcini!!! The dried ones never taste the same when re-hydrated.
I find all your details amazing and charming! This is such a fun piece. I really don't know about laying down tones, or under-painting. I think it does add richness to art. It will be fun to see what you do with this piece, so fun also to see the stages of it coming to life!
Did not know that...you are right that it got pretty disgusting the next day. So it's supposedly edible when the cap is still closed? Anyways, just in case, I would not dare to cook it, unless an expert looked at it first. There are too many poisonous mushroom that almost look like edible ones...
DeleteAmen to the fresh porcini superiority!
I use the undertones to soften the colors, an effect that I really like very much. I'll take another picture soon: the house is now almost done and I need to turn to color the fields and the sweets of the garden. ^^