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Blog: But What Are They Eating? (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: Drawing a Fine Line (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Here are two wildly different Eastery images to at least acknowledge the holiday. Neither is new, but its the best I can do.
This was a card for NobleWorks a while back. I actually re-purposed the image from another larger illustration I did, adding the grass and a few other Eastery touches.
And this mango just looked like an Easter egg to me, so I kept going with the colors and took it all the way.
Its colored pencil on illustration board.
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Chin Hills, Burma
Coordinates: 22 30 N 93 30 E
Maximum elevation: 10,018 feet (3,053 m)
Desperately trying to keep the Taxman at bay for a few more hours, I wound up at my favorite Monday night watering hole with a few friends last night, earnestly discussing the summer foods we enjoyed most. After listening to everyone’s peculiar arguments I found myself championing the mango as the perfect fruit for warmer days ahead. And yet as I tried to explain its versatility as an ingredient and its unrivaled popularity (the National Mango Board claims that more fresh mangos are eaten every day than any other fruit in the world), I realized that I knew precious little about its geographical origins.
As it turns out, this succulent relative of the cashew and the pistachio has been consumed in India for thousands of years, although it didn’t reach the United States until the late nineteenth century. Pinpointing the location of the first mango, when there are hundreds of varieties of the plant today, is not something I wanted to undertake but fortunately others had already agreed on the higher terrain forming the border between India and Burma (Myanmar). Running north-south, the evergreen-clad Chin Hills stretch across much of this tropical zone, and may hide an ancient progenitor in their forested slopes.
Ben Keene is the editor of Oxford Atlas of the World. Check out some of his previous places of the week.
Blog: Cachibachis (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Go see Them5...amazing designs and videos of Coke Bottles, Figurines, Posters, Toys, and items designed by The Designer's Republic, Caviar, Lobo, MK12 and Rex/Tennant. My husband has a collection of Coke Bottles from around the world. I'd love to get him one of the ones shown in this video. In the Coke Bottle, make sure to change the view from day to night view.
I'm always impressed at your ability to do such different styles so well. Love that "Easter egg mango",
Happy Easter and Happy Earth Day to you, too, Paula! Love the crackers, have always loved this mango (they're beautiful anyway, and you've captured the colors perfectly...), love the 'royalty.' Kind of appropriate seeins' how we seem to be in for a ROYAL wedding soon (I'm SO over it.... and the TV coverage hasn't really even started yet.... arrrggghhh!). Extensive ear rubs to kitties, say hello and happy Easter to your ma from me, and big hugs to you! .sp
I love the colors in this egg! Happy Easter to you too!