Go nuts with wild recipes
A special edition of "Wild Wild Cookbook" retitled Acorn Pancakes, Dandelion Salad and 38 Other Wild Dishes, by Jean Craighead George, HarperCollins, 1995, illustrated by Paul Mirocha.
I painted these illustrations using opaque watercolor in a traditional style. I especially enjoyed crawling around in the woods looking for plants, which is the object of the book anyways. While looking for plants, one notices a lot of other things that you didn't know were out there. I've included some of my pencil sketches here. The intended audience is children and the recipes are easy to make.
Book cover
Wrap-around art for cover.
Chicory and dandelion plants
Pencil sketch for chicory painting
Pencil sketch for dandelion painting
Wild nuts: Black walnut, Shagbark hickory, Pecan, and American beech
Oxalis or “shamrock”
Prickly pear cactus pads and cholla buds
Wild strawberry and raspberry plants