Here is my sketch for Day 11 of #Inktober2024, following the prompt of “snacks”. For a long time we have been weeding out the Pansit-Pansitan (also known as Ulasiman-bato, Peperomia pellucida or Pepper elder) from the plant pots on our balcony and throwing it away. Only recently did we realise that it’s edible and is supposed to have anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties (along with a host of other benefits). I picked this to add to an omelette I had at lunch time.
Thu-17-Oct-2024
Here are a couple of half-page sketches of our day last Saturday. The first was done at Manila Doctors Hospital (where we went to pick up our annual health checkup results). After my first consultation it was raining heavily so we had some lunch in Café France. The second sketch is of the last samosa of the bag full we bought from @assadminimart along UN Avenue, after the rain stopped. We also bought a load of spices, dried pulses and dried fruit. It’s a fantastic shop for all that kind of thing (they have a branch in Makati and Pasig)…and the samosas are heavenly!
Sat-12-Oct-2024
Here is a simple sketch of another of my ‘go-to’ subjects – whatever fruit that we happen to have in the fruit basket. This basket is actually half of a “Bangchung” – a bamboo container made in Bhutan and traditionally used to carry your lunch or for serving food and snacks to guests. With the other semi-spherical half, it snaps together to make a container.
Sat-25-May-2024
Here is one of my go-to subjects – just something random from the fridge. Every time we buy honey I doubt whether it really is honey or not. This is because in 2020 the Department of Science and Technology found that about 80% of honey products sold in shops in the Philippines were not pure honey. Most were composed of sugar syrup – although all the imported products they tested were not found to be adulterated.
This will be my first post on Cara (https://cara.app/art-chap-enjoin) – I am testing out a new social media site as I am a bit fed up with IG (and Facebook). While I am not bothered about trying to sell stuff through IG, try not to care about numbers of followers and likes and have my own blog site (artchapenjoin.com), the fact that Meta makes it almost impossible to opt out of AI scraping (even though it can most likely be done from everywhere else my drawings are posted) and that many artists are losing their livelihood to AI, makes me want to at least purge my accounts a little.
Mon-20-May-2024
Here is another sketch of a random object from our pantry. This is a bottle of (SM Bonus) rice wine that we bought a long time ago, just for cooking. In fact it’s so rough, that it’s barely good enough for that!
Mon-13-May-2024
My wife made me a delicious coffee-walnut cake for my birthday. Of course I had to sketch what was left…I also had to do this quickly before the ants attacked it. We seem to be plagued by them at the moment.
Fri-29-Mar-2024
Here is a sketch of something from our pantry – some cereal given to us by friends visiting from the UK (thank you Jane and Peter). The packaging has lovely colours so I thought it would make a good subject to sketch. Despite my current sketchbook being a little smaller than normal, I find I am still sketching at about A5 size…by sketching on two pages and over the crease.
Thu-26-Mar-2024
The other day I bought green chillies at the supermarket, but they only seemed to sell them in huge quantities. We only use a few each week at best, and then the rest of them go off, so I looked up a recipe to pickle them. Naturally after doing the pickling I sketched the result. We ate some of them with a meal a few days later – they turned out to be delicious, not too spicy (I took out the seeds) and crunchy!
Wed-13-Mar-2023
I am skipping ahead one sketch with this post, back to some simple sketches done at home. This sketch is of the ingredients of my favourite sandwich – peanut butter and banana. Nothing beats it. When I lived in Cambodia I ate a sandwich like this (using the lovely local baguettes), every day for lunch, for years.
Wed-14-Feb-2024