17 January 2012

figs

I don't think I have ever tasted a fig (other than fig newtons) -- I've never seen fresh figs for sale around here. I received a newsletter in the mail that had a photo of them and I had to paint them.

Noodler's red-black ink and gouache on Niddigan paper in a sketchbook I bound.

7 comments:

  1. i adore figs - the plant, the leaf, the fruit - gorgeous in every way!
    stunning sketch - thanks for sharing :)

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  2. This is really pretty. I love the colors in your figs. I was like you and hadn't ever tasted the 'real thing' until last year when I got figs to make fig bread. Very labor intensive to prepare but very tasty too.

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  3. Thank you both, Claire and Ann. Now I REALLY want to taste one!

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  4. Way back when (I was a young child), my family lived next door to a man who had a fig tree, every year he shared the delicious fruit with us; nothing quite like a ripe fig freshly picked from the tree .... yum!

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  5. Sounds yummy! I'm going to look for them this spring -- have to try one!

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  6. They are as delicious as your sketch!

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  7. Thanks, Barbara! I'm looking forward to trying one when I find it.

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