As a starving artist, (starving as in ~ I have not touched a medium since we left TX and I’m starving) I’ve been trying to think of different ways to get inspiration. Well yesterday it hit me. Is there any better way to get inspiration than from the produce section in my local grocery store? The more I thought about it the more I had such an urge to just submerse myself in produce a little longer than usual.

I was going to the grocery anyways so I just threw my little camera in my purse and away I went. Now, I’m a little partial to produce as it has to be my absolute favorite section in the whole grocery. There are times I’m just simply in awe at how beautiful the produce department is. I figured “I’ll just take a few pictures for inspiration sake and be done with it”.

So into the produce section I stroll. Out comes the camera and with just one flash an employee was all over me like bees on honey. He kindly told me that I would need to get permission from the manager to take pictures in the store. So I wheeled my buggy towards the front of the store where I asked to speak with the store manager. He asked me why I wanted to take pictures and I told him that it was for inspiration, art and drawing purposes. I got the ok and they then called the employee over in produce letting him know that I was free to take pictures. When I got back over to the produce department, I thanked the employee and he kindly said that I could just snap away ‘til my hearts content.

Here are a couple inspirational shots for sharing purposes.

When I got home, I took the produce and made a nice still life scene on the counter then I snapped quite a few pictures and I’ll be occupying some of my down time with drawing once again.

I started in on my sketch last night and have pretty much the whole still life sketched and now I’m starting to work on bringing life to my veggies. The thing I’m really missing though is my very “good” color pencils back in TX. I did purchase the Crayola color pencils but I’ll tell ya folks, they are just not the real deal. However, they are filling that art need beautifully and that’s what counts.

I’ve started filling in the sketch and there is still lots of work to be done. But I decided for the first time ever to take pictures along the way. Here’s what I have so far.