Savoy Cabbage

11 x 8 inches, watercolor, 2010.

This cabbage was great fun to paint - tricky and time consuming but an interesting challenge. Once again, this subject became a tasty meal after posing for me.

Spanish Onion

11 x 8 inches, watercolor, 2010.

A lovely big spanish onion casts a long shadow. It ended up in coleslaw.

Three Bell Peppers

8 x 10 inches, watercolor, 2009.

Three bell peppers on a blue background.

Painted for this months WNW 7 x 11 x 3 challenge - to paint a painting of a size with the shorter dimension no less than 7" and the longer dimension no greater than 11", with a three hours time limit to paint it.

Green Peppers

8 x 10.5 inches, watercolor, 2009.

These lovely, shiny green peppers were also part of this year's homegrown pepper crop.

Three Squash

8 x 10.5 inches, watercolor, 2009.

These are three of the squash we grew this summer. We hadn't grown squash before so we were curious to see how it turned out. Sadly it wasn't good - the fruits were very bitter and nasty to taste (and very poisonous if eaten). It's not clear why this happened but at least they looked nice enough to paint!