A pretty good fly trap, according to Poppy. She says I should hang it up right away to start catching flies though I don’t think I’ve seen a fly in the house since last August…

All the crafting going on around the house right has to do with leprechaun traps; Poppy has just finished making her third one, even though St. Patrick’s Day has come and gone, she’s going to be ready for them next year! I’ll have to post the most recent one she’s done, because there are some pretty involved preliminary drawings for them.

With doing all those Sharpie sketches I actually had time to miss painting with watercolour. And I forgot that I wanted to do a “before and after” for my next painting, so that will have to be later…when I feel like it.

I am noticing that the bento lunches I am choosing to paint are the most colourful ones–I’m really drawn to ones that have blue, green, and yellow in them. I remember my mom always telling me that you should strive for at least three colours on your plate at meals, and although I do try to make all her bento lunches colourful, sometimes (if we need to go shopping) there is a lot of beige and red. It is also a lot trickier to get green in the bentos since she decided she is allergic to all vegetables except carrots. This is also unfortunate because the edamame has become one of my favourite things to paint.

I should list what is in this bento lunch:

Top tier–Pocky sticks

Middle tier–heart-shaped egg, edamame, a plum, and crab meat

Bottom tier–pretzel mix and cantaloupe.

I thought about painting one of the more Christmas themed Bentos for this week, but then I wasn’t into it. I started two different Bento paintings and wasn’t into painting either of them, so I decided to just paint whichever Bento I felt like painting. So Squares Bento it is! It’s a little hard to tell since everything was cubed but the food in this Bento was: a cereal bar (top), sandwiches, cheddar cubes, and shreddies (middle tier), red pepper, cantaloupe cubes, and fudge (bottom tier).

A new Bento painting! I had a bit of trouble getting a good photo of this one. I usually take photos outside on the North facing deck on a bright day, but it has been cold and overcast lately. The colour in the photo still doesn’t look quite right–though it always looks better in real life anyway. Maybe it’s better that way, I would rather have that than have my photos look better than the real thing.

And I think there are enough Bento paintings for a new category on the blog now :)

This was from a week that I did some shaped-themed Bentos for Poppy. This one had strawberry Mochi (2 of them), pretzel mix ‘o’s, hard-boiled egg slices with seasoning, edamame, blueberries, grape halves, and a Babybel cheese. I like both the burgundy and blue Bento Boxes that I have (technically the burgundy one is Poppy’s), but it seems to me that the blue Bento Box looks prettier with food. Maybe it is the contrast I like.