In my previous post, I featured the luscious purple vegetables I bought at PCC. No sooner had my fellow sketchbook-keeping pal Claire read the post and looked at the photo than she wrote in an email, "Before you cook them, you should sketch them. The colors are just too gorgeous not to." Darn. Couldn't I just admire them and then cook them without the to-do of drawing them before having them for dinner? Apparently not, because each time I looked at them in my fridge, Claire's words pushed themselves into my consciousness. She was right, of course.
So, with the beet greens threatening to deteriorate, the time had come. I broke down and sketched the cylinder beets a few days ago. Voilà. They have since been eaten, after first being oven-roasted. Tell me what you think, Claire :-):
And the greens:
Materials used: sumi-e ink from a Kaimei brush pen, and standard Winsor & Newton watercolor paints on Arches hot press paper.
Jocelyn Curry 
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