The Pantry Pineapple

There is a pineapple in my pantry

well there is a tin of pineapple

several in fact

and this pineapple is actually sitting on the bowl on my table

but the challenge over at APR is In Your Pantry

so for the sake of this post let's pretend that the pineapple is in my pantry

because it is more fun to paint a pineapple than a tin

And it is fresh pineapple sort of weather

late summer is upon us and we have been making smoothies

for breakfast, lunch and dinner

my favourite at the moment is pineapple, mint and yoghurt

I was going to draw up the yoghurt container

and no I don't keep it in the pantry

the yogurt brand is Roaming Cow

and it has this great cow image on its label

Sadly my effort at drawing the cow had a head that looked like a dog

and the second attempt inexplicably looked like a bat

so rather than painting up dog/bat/cow

I stuck with the pineapple

I have to come clean and tell you I have attempted a drawing of a pineapple

when I was in my botanical phase

but I never got past doing the top spiky bit

because it was taking forever and I ended up eating the bottom part

so all I have to show for it is spiky bit

but in the spirit of not wasting old drawings

here it is adorning the smoothie 

which I made after I painted up the pineapple used in this post

see I am learning not to eat my subjects before I am finished painting them

the old drawing sort of looks like it was meant to be used for this

because it is the right size for the glass

Painting up the pineapple also gave me the chance

to try out my new Peerless Paints and Strathmore Mixed Media Journal

that I ordered from Jane Davenport"s Institute of Cute

and can I say I ordered these on Friday and had them in my hand on Tuesday

how great is that

 there is nothing worse than waiting and waiting for an art supply order is there

the paints were pretty great

good clear colours and easy to use

you can see the palette I made up in the photo below

and the journal was nice... I would still like a smoother paper

and crisper white would be just perfect

but it stood up to the assault of buckets of water well

and it does open nice and flat so that is always a bonus

I am looking forward to getting back to working it again today

and all in all I am very happy with the new toys

So happy in fact that I am off to play with them some more

hope you all have a wonderful creative day...xx

My last two posts can be accessed here...

The Pencil Tin ... 

The Breakfast Sorbet ...