As you may know, I don't have a very big love for painting flowers. I prefer the twigs, pods, buds and seeds... sometimes even some leaves.... Some of my friends on Facebook are doing the SBA's Distance Learning Diploma Course in botanical art. One of the assignments is to paint vegetables. They also do fruits and flowers of course but this veggies assignment is really interesting, I think. Inspired and intrigued by this challenge I am now spotting wonderful vegetables everywhere. I'm getting so excited about it all that I'm now almost ready to turn part in my garden into a *beautiful vegetables* spot. Not even so much for eating it (although that is of course a nice bonus) but more for painting and drawing the stuff. Here are some things that are really interesting. And there's so much more..... (oh, and because I would also plant some tomatoes and other *fruit* in my little plot, I'll add those too here)
Top to bottom: 'Cabbage' by Yannha, 'Kale' by Yannha, Cabbage 'Alaska' at Marshalls, Aubergine 'Prosperosa' at
Thompson & Morgan,
'Toma-tres' by Cebolledo, Pak Choi by Munduate, 'Fennel' by Paul Petherick,
'Candy Stripe Beet' or 'Chioggia' at
Plant World Seeds,
Lettuce 'Yugoslavian Red' at
Thompson & Morgan, Cosmic Purple Carrots at
Plant World Seeds,
'Onions' by sfPhotocraft,
'Local Colour - Les Nourritures Terrestres' by Pusapoze, Shallot 'Picasso' at
Thompson & Morgan, Swede 'Tweed' at
Thompson & Morgan
I know... it's much more than just greens.
