Smelling Artichokes ...

I have a bit of an artichoke thing happening at the moment

they are a great shape and colour though

I not a huge fan of eating them in any form

and on the subject of eating them

I do question just how hungry or mad someone was to eat one for the first time

they don't exactly shout to be eaten do they

I suspect it was done as a dare

this thought aside

what they don't give me in eating pleasure

is more than made up for with drawing pleasure

and the inspiration came from some new artichoke soap I bought

Who knew there was artichoke soap???

and it smells amazing

so amazing that I made a trip to the grocery store to stick my nose in the real thing

now I may have looked slightly mad smelling the artichokes

then smelling my arm

then back to the artichokes

but I was very curious to see if they smelt like the soap

and I had reason to think they might

because I also bought lettuce soap

I mean how could I not buy lettuce soap... how gloriously mad is that

anyway the lettuce soap smells like lettuce

so I figured the artichoke would be the same

but despite making a complete fool of myself in the produce section

I failed to get the fragrance of the soap or anything close in fact

but after sticking my nose in them I figured it would be rude not to buy them

so home they came and were plonked in a vase to keep them fresh

I duly made both Sinus and Phantom smell both arm and veg

but they couldn't smell the similarity either

so the soap, while lovely, was declared guilty of false advertising

and therefore the gorgeous packaging was not worthy of being painted

and the real deal has been my subject instead

On the drawing front they didn't let me down

and I had a great time painting them up

so much so I did two different small paintings of them

and they will be painted again I am sure

I can see a whole vegetable thing ahead of me

after this and the spagaragus of the other week

both were great fun to paint

but that will have to wait for another day

because despite your sympathy and wishes for my eye to heal quickly

which were greatly appreciated by the way

my eye still looking alarmingly like someone stuck a blue iris on Rudolph's nose

so short spurts of work are the order of the day I think

 Linking up with Day 29 of AEDM ...xx

Yesterday I blogged about

Mozzie's Revenge ...

Faltering ...