Abundance ~ Colorful Food Art Print
I was commissioned to create a composition full of color and life and the idea of an abundance of food: fruits and vegetables. I gathered resources and tried to create a composition showing the many different shapes, colors and textures of healthy produce that our planet gives us.
The original pastel drawing on paper (18 x 25 inches) delighted my art collector and I was able to 2025 to return to her home to borrow my art to have a high quality photograph taken of my artwork so that I may have the ability to create prints and use the image for my portfolio and other things. I had delivered this in December 2018 on a tight schedule that had not allowed me to get a proper image before this.
Your fine art print will give you years of enjoyment and memories or dreams of the healthy, happy food. This artwork Abundance will look great anywhere in which you wish to brighten a corner of your home. Naturally, the other rooms that this food art will enhance are the kitchen and dining rooms.
Abundance could also be a fun print to have for a classroom of young children.
This beautiful food art can be yours! Just choose your fine art print size and place your order. The prints will arrive on Sumerset Velvet paper with some border around the image [making the total dimensions larger than the size you order].
As always, if you have a question, such as a desire for a different size or different paper or material (metal, wood, canvas, etc.), please contact Borsheim Arts Studio (link below).
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I usually need 1-2 business days to create your print and will ship soon after. Let me know if you need the art by a certain date or have any other requests when you place your order (or before). Please include your phone number to aid the shipping courier.
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FRAMING TIPS:
I recommend framing artworks on paper behind a non-glare glass, with a mat, and simple frame.
The color of the mat and frame should go with the color of the print. A white mat gives a traditional, classically clean look.
For black and white images, I recommend the traditional look of a white or slightly off-white wide mat with a simple black frame (and non-reflective glass if possible).
I prefer to offset the matte, meaning that the sides and the top width of the matte are the same, but the bottom edge is a little bit wider (or tall, as you see fit).
The framer should attach the print to the support ONLY on the TOP edge, allowing the paper to hang freely behind the mat. That freedom allows the paper to respond well to most levels of changing humidity.
Care for your print just as you would any work on paper:
Do not display in direct sun and protect from humidity.
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Designing and Painting the Original Pastel Art of Abundance:
I gathered reference materials and used some plain paper to lay out the variety of fruits and vegetables into a composition. Lots of objects often means there is no real subject of an artwork. I instead wanted to create a focal point and place it in a good location that might encourage the eye to move around it as all of the other fruits and vegetables would get noticed. That, and I was conscious to have some sort of balance of similar hues, spreading them around in a seeming random relationship.
Here you may see that my trip to the market was so helpful! Seeking the subject and there it was: heads of lettuce spread open! Yay. I loved this because I like to work "backwards" a lot. In this case, what I mean is the focal point is the LEAST busy area. Cherry tomatoes, grapes, blueberries, strawberries, asparagus, carrots, etc, all made for lots of smaller shapes that were made up of lots of detail, textures, and colors. The big circle of lettuce gave a resting place amidst all of the ABUNDANCE. A lovely break in the patterns.
This is also why I rested celery over the purple cabbage circle: I wanted to break the form a bit and keep it secondary, instead of two circles taking up most of the real estate.
You may also note in the image below how I designed the food to circle back or point directly into the center or subject. I enjoyed this challenge and am happy with the results. Painting in pastel on paper was another joy, reminding me of my street painting days.
I started with the lettuce on the good quality paper. Why? Maybe inspired remembering how it jumped out at me at the market. But really I wanted to choose the exact spot for the subject and work the other food around it. And, perhaps as a street painting habit, start in the middle with the pastels and work my way out. I never thought that painting food would be as fun as this lettuce, with its subtle color changes from greens to cold blues and yellows.
So many fruits and vegetables! A love of fresh produce. The funny thing is that in my artwork, there are no seasons! hahah. Each season gives us different choices of nourishment, and I put so many of them together in one image.
Almost finished with the produce, I realized that the white peeking through bothered me. So, below you see that I have created lines and in the upper left part, I have started filling in brown wood colors to create a giant cutting board. I needed to be subtle enough with this so that the board receded.
A glimpse into my "blue room" (it makes me laugh that my landlord said he chose that color because of the color of my eyes; flirty men, sweet, lol):
It was time to get on the plane and take this work to the new owner. But my suitcase was too small for the piece of paper. I already had a frame with non-glare glass and a mat once I got to North Carolina. Thus, I trimmed the paper to fit the mat and that was all I needed!
What a fun experience to deliver this artwork. Full disclosure, these are my beloved aunts, sisters of my father. My Aunt Nancy on the left is the one who commissioned this artwork. My brother Steve was my taxi while in North Carolina and often when I travel to visit family. He took this image, too.
And thank you so much! Enjoy your art,
Kelly
P.S. My original art, including also sculpture in stone and bronze, visit my site:
https://BorsheimArts.com