Vegetable Garden Painting “Nature’s Kitchen”

My vegetable garden painting is done – I’ve named it “Nature’s Kitchen” in homage to my husband’s quip that when we harvest veggies for dinner we are going “grocery chopping.” It’s very similar to my garden – except maybe a bit more profuse where it should be and a bit less overgrown where it needn’t be 🙂 If you look closely, there is a little bunny nibbling on the romaine, and a happy bluebird by its nesting box – we do have the nesting box, and substitute a raccoon for the bunny… The painting, like my garden, has romaine, tomatoes, grape vines, strawberries, etc. We have a gate like that with the lucky horse shoe. In other words, the painting is how I like to see my garden. I’m working on a second painting with sunflowers now, along with a few others.

Here is what the painting looks like, if it were to be framed with green matting, which I’m thinking about doing:

As an aside, we have a ban on plastic grocery bags to save the environment, and actually it hasn’t been a difficult change, we just leave the totes in the car. I’ve used this “Nature’s Kitchen” image on totebags and people seem to enjoy them, so that’s good news! While there are many totebags and carriers with my art on them, the totebags I use are at LetsgoShopping.bz – I like these because the price is right and they have a nice gusset at the bottom and seem to carry a lot. They’ve also been handy for picking up mail at the post office box, carrying the purse and sunglasses and phone and ipad and …. (how long is list going to get? NO more gadgets, PLEASE!). This particular totebag has Nature’s Kitchen on one side, and Chef at the Farmer’s Market on the other side – I thought those two themes went nicely together.
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