Kitchen table sketch
The other day I was at my father’s, helping him after his recent minor surgery. During a break, I sketched the pencil cup, salt shaker, and scissors on the kitchen table. I added the watercolor later at home, and the type in Photoshop. It’s so nice to be able to sketch at odd moments like this. Yes, that’s a tomato paste can, and it must be very old, because we haven’t made that kind of spaghetti (not “pasta”) sauce for years—the sauce you simmer for hours with pork bones and meatballs or maybe sausage, and in which tomato paste is a minor but essential ingredient. I think we stopped making it when the word “pasta” came into general usage. Loretta mentioned the slow-cooking kind of sauce in the last paragraph of a recent post. Hmmm…maybe when the weather gets a little cooler here. It has turned humid again.
nic squirrell said,
September 14, 2004 @ 4:48 am
Hi,
I have just found your blog (via Just Pat) and wanted to say it is lovely.
Loretta said,
September 14, 2004 @ 8:22 pm
Great drawing. I drew a bunch of kitchen bottles and cans a few weeks ago. I’ll have to scan them in.
Pat said,
September 15, 2004 @ 6:59 am
My Mom makes her own spaghetti sauce too that takes hours. Its so much better than the stuff in the jars at the store. (which is how I do it cause I’m lazy, LOL). Your drawing is great!
Pat said,
September 15, 2004 @ 7:00 am
PS-Hope your Dad is doing good!