During the spring of 2011, my family planted our first vegetable garden.  As we harvested our tomatoes and cucumbers, we marveled at these homegown treasures.  This was the beginning of my  carandache on paper fruit and vegetable series. 

I had a new appreciation for each vegetable and piece of fruit before me.  I studied the light  and shadows of the tomatos in a bowl on my table and contemplated the textures of fresh figs.  I became enamoured with the subtlies of color on the skin of a cherry and I wanted to explore them by enlarging their scale on the page, bursting past the edges of the paper or shrinking them down to fit as a group in a handmade ceramic bowl.  The carandache crayons allowed me to layer the colors to replicate the richness of the peels and the lush insides.

I treated the paper with gentleness as if I were petting the tomatoes to prevent them from bruising.  The drawings are meant to be viewed closely.  My session with each friut ended with a delicious bite.