Hello everyone…
Today I am sharing a painting of mine that I love eating and missing a lot in US. Yes, it is hazelnut! Since I came here, I found it in a few store which are imported from Turkey. However, they never sell them in their shells. They are cracked and roasted. While it is better than nothing, I still miss cracking them myself and eating tons of them. Especially the fresh ones… Yumm!
Fresh nuts were always my best treats. Although I love chocolates or chips, I wouldn’t trade fresh nuts to any of them. My awesome mom knew that, and she would make sure to buy me a full bag of fresh hazelnuts when the season came.
I love you mom! I love you hazelnuts!
Anyways… Here are the hazelnuts that I am nuts about!
This was a pretty quick painting. I remember, we were in botanical illustration class, and I finished my project earlier than others. Our instructor gave me these nuts to paint while I was waiting for others.
This painting can be taken as an example to small projects. You know, sometimes we just don’t want to work on big paintings, but at the same time we feel guilty that we are not painting. Maybe finding some nuts around, or small leaves, little flowers and working on them can help to stop the uncomfortable feeling of delaying painting to another day.
I hope this is a useful tip and will help you to look around to find a small object to paint.
Have a great weekend guys!
Art in Nature 