Doggie and cabbage

Today I'm introducing you to a doggie from my boyfriend's village. He is from Maials in Catalonia, where they make olive oil and cultivate almonds and hanging tomatoes. This doggie is a pesky chap, he was fidgeting around infront of me one day and seemed extremely fertive. So I took his photo and drew a picture of him.

My next picture for today is, quite obviously, a cabbage. Yes I love vegetables, they're beautiful. On saturday mornings there's a farmers' market here in Lleida where people from villages and fruit wholesalers (I think) come and sell their produce. It's a lot of fun, and always full of interesting looking specimens (people and vegetables alike). The last time I went with my Italian friend Francesca, we cycled down there on our bikes and had a lovely long chatty breakfast. Then I bought this enormous cabbage. First I painted it with a background because I'd just been to an amazing Paula Rego exhibition in Madrid and I wanted to pack my pictures with information, like she does. However what works for her doesn't necessarily work for a sad copycat like me :-(

So below I've cut out the background and the cabbage seems to sing out with all its cabbagyness!!!