Happy Valentine's Day!

 

Friday Art - Duck Portrait

 

Welcome to Friday Art!  This is my Harlequin Duck portrait, an ACEO (2 1/2" x 3 1/2") in wartercolour pencil.

Linking to Nicole's Friday Face Off and to Gillena's Art For Fun Friday.

Baby Potato Pancakes for Grandson

 

I had some leftover baby formula in a bottle that I wanted to use up.  Daughter L suggested I make these potato pancakes for Grandson C based on an Instagram video she saw.  I had more formula than the recipe used so I added some ground up rice crackers.

4-5 small potatoes

2 eggs

pkg of 2 organic rice crackers

1/2 c baby formula

canola oil

peel and boil potatoes.  mash well.  add eggs, ground up rice crackers and formula.  The mix should have a pancake consistency.  Make your small pancakes in a bit of canola oil.  It makes the amount you see in the photo.  The nicer pancakes were made by husband M, he makes pancakes a lot. Mine broke up, maybe the pan wasn't hot enough.

Wednesday Memes

 

Dried cranberry orange muffins

 

I made these dried cranberry orange muffins and they are delicious!  There are recipes using fresh or frozen cranberries but I only had dried cranberries so luckily I found this recipe.  It calls for orange juice so I had oranges and made the juice from scratch.  I also have an old juicer which I hardly ever use so it came in handy for juicing 2 oranges.

Here Goes Nothing

 

Suz had some great tips on reblooming her orchids.  My orchid had overgrown roots outside the pot  and has never rebloomed. So on Feb 2nd I trimmed it the best I could and am soaking the roots in water.  The roots were not tall enough to just soak the tips as Suz recommended.  I will change the water every week and maybe here goes nothing!

Sunday Smiles and SITAR - Orchid Process

Linking to Gillena's Sunday Smiles and to Nicole's SITAR.

Nicole asked me to show my process of painting my ACEO's.  Here goes in the following 18 photos:

My orchid subject

choosing my colours

outlining with my black acrylic pen

colouring in with my watercolour pencils

using a paintbrush to add water to the coloured pencils

The final product on a frame!

It was interesting to see my own process as I don't usually take photos of it, I just work away.  Thanks to Nicole for suggesting this!