Last week I had started sketching parts of the gourmet hamper I ordered from the local Life’s Too Short Wine Bar. I had the main parts on the page and the colours. I ate most of it and left some sad pieces of salad etc on the plates so that I could look at the shape and colours.

I really wanted to focus on lettering on the page. I don’t usually do a lot of writing and or create labels on the page. However, I had a vision in mind and am pleased with what I ended up with. It can be refined more. It is really just my own writing style in different sizes and colours. I did not want to do anything too different.

Below are last weeks sketches shown next to the finished page. The line down the middle is the middle of the double-page spread. I decided not to try and remove it in Photoshop. The pages did get a little messy over the week as I rubbed out the lettering to try and make it fit around the drawings.

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And then some cheese, crackers, nuts

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salad

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the main – salmon

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dessert

All in watercolour pencil and the writing is a Faber Castell PITT (SMALL) in Dark Sepia.

Enjoy! I did!