The produce has started flying - so far lettuce, onion, garlic, celery, broccoli, tomatoes and yellow squash. Of course, there's more to come...
A little touch added to the panel that wasn't in the original is some produce on the floor (garlic and onion in the background, a celery stalk in the foreground). I have another change planned, but I won't spoil the surprise, now.
Also, the chef now has a complete mustache (I'm sure that will come as a great relief to everyone).
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| A stylin' "stache" |
I love The Onion. It was always good for a little break when I worked at a day job.
Here’s part of their article about a fictional self-important novelist:
When he wasn't blatantly wasting his time detailing the architecture of the Town Hall building or supplying dozens of fictional bridges and creeks with names that sound as if they were invented by a high school English student, Milligan was focusing his energies on crafting a diverse social stratum of characters so nondescript and stripped of anything resembling actual humanity that they might as well be lampposts.
"Each resident of Connor's Cove is such a unique and complex individual, with his or her own rich family ancestry going back centuries," said Milligan, who relied on a host of sad literary crutches to differentiate his bland characters from one another, including limps, horrendous signature phrases, and in one agonizing instance, an eye patch. "In fact, they surprise even me. I never know what they're going to do next."
Read more here.
This poor onion was sitting in a tureen on the kitchen counter along with others, waiting to be diced into a spaghetti sauce or maybe something a little more exciting. While its friends were content to keep waiting, this one gave it up and started to 'go funny'.
What fascinates me is how part of it is dying, while at the same time its shooting new life out of its head.
And so I had to draw it.
This was done with Polychromos and graphite, on illustration board. Its about 6 x 8 inches.
An interesting challenge was to get it drawn before it changed too much! This puppy GREW right before my eyes, I swear. I'd work on it, then go do something else for a few hours, and come back to find it had morphed into a slightly different creature. Just enough to make me wonder if it was just me. (Like, back in school, when we had an unsuccessful figure drawing, we'd say "but the model moved!") The same was true here - but it really did move!
Using graphite to do the 'peels' seemed like a good choice. I didn't feel like rendering them, and also felt like they'd detract from the rest of the piece. The 'story' was in the onion itself and the shoots.
And I had to get a 'square' in there somewhere. That's my 'thing' now I guess. I love square shapes. So if the art itself isn't square, there will be something square in it. You heard it here first.
I love the Onion.
Especially when they set a parody near me. This one begins:
“HILLSBORO, OR—Another human dream was crushed by the uncompromising forces of reality Monday, when the restaurant day job of 29-year-old former aspiring cartoonist Mark Seversen officially became his actual job.”
Read the rest here.
Having my day job become my job-job was my greatest nightmare. I dreamed of leaving it for years before I actually did it. There were times I despaired, but I was tenacious (which is the secret to succeeding at a lot of things, I think).
The Onion satirized our growing inability to read long blocks of test without a link, a graphic, a bullet point.
Read the Onion’s piece, entitled
Nation Shudders At Large Block Of Uninterrupted Text, here.
I love the Onion.
Especially when they set a parody near me. This one begins:
"GRESHAM, OR—Sean Fowler, the man once revered throughout the halls of Barlow High School as prom's one true king, has for the past several years lived a meager existence among the very peasants who used to tremble at the mere mention of his name, sources reported Monday."
Read the rest here.
Just for the heck of it, I took pics of one of today’s snacks and lunch.
Snack: Crunchy home-made cashew butter on a slice of honey, raisin & hazelnut bread next to a fruit medley consisting of apple, orange and banana segments, topped with blackberries and wild blueberries.
Lunch: Lasagna with a side of seasoned and steamed [...]
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It's lovely, Paula. I always like the green shoots coming from the vegetables in the pantry, whether it's an onion or a sweet potato. Sort of like a little science project going on in there. I like your square as a unifying element, too...kind of reminiscent of tiles or quilt squares or something...fun!
It's so beautiful and delicate! Btw, I love your 'kitty pic o' the week' - great idea!