Healthy and Delicious Cupcakes

     This week's art features a healthy spin on cupcakes...plus a festive sangria. Recently at Whole Foods Market I took a moment to  sketch some of the delectable looking pastries on show. The decorative icing and candy makes the baked goods so attractive. Why not do the same using fruit instead? Perfect for vegans and other health inclined people. In the end, I love how the fruit came out, looking colorful and delicious. I may even try making these with real fruit! 

     Recently I printed postcards with images of the cupcakes. Email me your address to adar@adar-illustration.com and I'll be happy to send you one!

Have a healthy and delicious week, 

Adar

Organic Food, Mechanical Tech

     Here are two food spot illustrations I recently designed. The concept is making food the focal point with hand painting and reducing an appliance to stylized graphic lines. This expresses the organic nature of food versus the mechanical nature of technology.

     A piece of news I'm happy to share is moving my website to Squarespace. It also has a new url: Adar-illustration.com

     One of the writers from the Writers and Illustrators of the Future workshop I attended, Jonathan Ficke, is currently writing a series of posts about each piece of art from the contest this year. Check out his blog, jonficke.com 

Peppers and Passover!

     One of the best aspects of drawing food is the variety of shapes and colors. Peppers feature both. How many of these peppers can you name? How many have you tried? Healthy eating offers an ever-increasing range of options for trying new foods. Before I started to eat healthier I did not know there were so many kinds of peppers.

     Below I placed these peppers on some kitchen products. It's fun to imagine printing fabric and creating useable items!

     Last but not least, Passover is coming up next week! This is definitely a food holiday. In fact, the center piece of the holiday is a plate featuring some of the food items below (plus there are many cups of wine!) The graphics below from left to right are a shank bone, apple-raisin mix, matzo, parsley, egg, wine glass, horseradish, lettuce and wine bottle. The text is a Hebrew saying from the Seder which means "next year in Jerusalem".