"Pie Day" 4 x 6 pen, ink, colored pencil

It's pie-baking night here.  Our daughter is home for the holiday so she and I shopped together, then baked and laughed tonight.  We made apple, pecan, apple crisp, and a pineapple pie tonight.  First time for the pineapple; we await the verdict.  No mince pie this year, which I have made for years just like my mom made it for years.  However, I'm the only one we're dining with who would eat it and I don't need an entire mincemeat pie... a little sad, but the right choice.  Here's our beautiful selection.  
This is my fifty-third daily drawing, a quick pie sketch due to all the baking activity. 

"Afternoon Glow" 5 x 9 watercolor & ink

We visit my cousin in NY every Thanksgiving.  Her home is graceful and welcoming and I look forward to seeing her each fall.  Here's a sketch of her living room.... imagine it with the smell of wonderful cooking wafting from around the corner, the noise and hustle and bustle of family arriving and greeting one another.  I do.

As always, thanks for looking.

Thankful for Onions

Blue Onion 6 x 10

Red and Yellow  8 x 10

 I just shared a satiating, satisfying, wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends.  It was filled with fabulous food, hugs, laughter, stories, play, walks, memories, a few mishaps which will become legend ("remember the year...?").   The holiday was replete with the hectic hubbub I relish.

This year, my  brother concocted a hearty turkey stew/soup from whatever he could find in the kitchen the morning after.  Turkey carcass and leftover
 meat were essentials, but in the process while chatting and chopping, I saw carrots, shallots, garlic, celery, pasta, spices and onions.  I noted that as he sauteed the onions, he poured some of the stock into the sautee pan just before adding the mixture to the stew pot, dredging up all the sweet carmelized yumminess and adding layers of flavor to the stew which was scrumptious.  So...

I started thinking of onions and how often I have chosen them as subject. Here are a few of my onion paintings from over the years.. some you've seen, some not. Onions in the sun, in the shadow, on Mom's favorite plates, with other ingredients, sprouting, peeling, always enticing, color glowing as it bounces onion to onion. Though I love to cook with onions, I am often tempted to let them sprout, and sprout some more.  Those sensuous, organic greens are wild and alluring.

Thanks for looking and Happy Thanksgiving. 
                     

Sunny Onions 8 x 10

Red on Red 12 x 9

Onions 6 x 10

Flavorful 10 x 8

Onions n Oil 10 x 10