I ordered a gourmet food basket to pick up from a local wine bar in Melbourne called Life’s Too Short. I found out about it on a Facebook Group for our local postcode. It has information about events and support offered for locals. as well as lovely photos of the local gardens. Our local community is about 5000 people, and this group has about 330 members. This meal was a special treat for me and I felt good to be supporting a local business. In Melbourne, our 6th lockdown has been extended for another two weeks and extended to all of the State of Victoria. We have had 200 days in lockdown since March last year. My life is good, but for many people, it is not. And my art keeps me so happy when I am not working at my work from home job.
The Feast theme was Italian and Spanish. My menu is below. The meal was for two, so I have enough to last for days. Of course, for me, it offers the opportunity of days of sketching with my watercolour pencils, exploring all their colours. As there are multiple offerings of each, I can eat one, sketch one. and have one for later.
2 x Roasted Pumpkin, Sundried Tomato, Basil and Tallegio Tartlets
Green salad with Sigrid’s signature Dijon dressing
The Italian Job – 3 x artisan salami, 1 x Italian cheese, House-marinated olives
The Spanish Inquisition – 2 x Spanish Cheese, Serrero Jamon, assorted Crackers and accompaniments
Fresh-baked mini olive loaf, cultured butter and house salt
2 x Boozy Lemoncello Cupcakes
1 x Bottle of back-vintage Italian Savagnin wine to match this feast
expect to see more…. there is still dessert …. and I will add notes about the food sketched
Enjoy ! I am
What an amazing variety of food you have to eat for more than one meal. The colours you have drawn them make them very real. Well done and enjoy.
Thank you. I knew that the weird colours of “olive green yellowish” and “green gold” would come in handy one day. They are the olive. I don’t carry them around in my everyday sketch kit. I have purchased all the 126 Faber Castell watercolour pencils and have been exploring the colours
Great sketches as always Alissa. We are also in lockdown for at least another two weeks in Canberra. Luckily for me I had signed up to do an online course which, serendipitously, started the day after lockdown was announced. Art is both a solace and a welcome occupation. Although I know that for many the ongoing lockdown in Melbourne is very challenging. Looking forward to seeing more of your basket of goodies.
Now I want a food basket to both sketch and eat! Nicely done! You have a great attitude about getting through another lockdown!