Tuesday, September 06, 2005

"Roots"


This week's Illustration Friday theme, "roots", immediately brought images to mind of all my favorite root vegetables and I quickly set to work creating vivid colors, shapes and textures. I may still may add more to it at a later date. Click here to view a larger image of it.
Can you name the vegetables?

14 Comments:

Anonymous papunella said...

your illustration turned out very pleasant and colorfull. I think you´ve choosen "rote Rüben" (beetroots), "Jungzwiebel" (don`t know the word in english. A translation word by word means: youngonion ;-), "Lauch" (leek), "Radieschen" (radish) and "Kartoffeln" (potatoes). Am I right?
However, they all turned out fabolous!

3:50 AM  
Blogger atomicvelvetsigh said...

erm.. hmm.. T for turnips? well im poor at naming veggies but i think youve made a nice job on your illo.. very cheery too. hehe mine's kinda glomy tho.

5:14 AM  
Blogger Rowantree said...

Great idea and useful illustration, nice work !

8:01 AM  
Anonymous niff said...

Love the delicate leaves. very colorful and fun illustration.

8:17 AM  
Blogger pino said...

What a clever! and delicious idea:) I liked it a lot..

10:27 AM  
Blogger Kim Carney said...

That is fantastic!

7:11 PM  
Blogger "Maggie" said...

Papunella, you are very close, the root vegetables are radish, green onion, red onion, turnip and sweet potatoes! R O O T S

Atomicvelvetsigh, you got turnips correct for the letter T!

Rowantree, yes this is a useful illustration for me as I have always wanted to illustrate a cookbook so it will show in my portfolio nicely.

Niff, the delicate leaves were series of layer upon layer and so fun to create.

Pino, glad you like the idea, I was trying to think outside the box on this one.

Kim, thank you for the warm compliment, coming from you -that means a lot to me!

8:13 PM  
Blogger peapies said...

It is so fun!!! Fabulous.

10:42 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Your illustration looks great.

wynlen

2:16 AM  
Blogger Laura said...

I love this! So clever and so lovely to look at.

6:17 AM  
Anonymous paula said...

Very nice solution to the "Roots" concept, Maggie! And an interactive one as well. Most of my answers were wrong but I was so eager to identify them! Fun!

9:22 AM  
Blogger Julie Oakley said...

Oh yes - I do like this illustration

9:31 AM  
Anonymous evy said...

Very nice Illo, Maggie! I also like the link between each letter and the first letter of the veggie. Great idea!

1:57 AM  
Blogger Nita said...

Wow, I totally love this. Would make a super poster or ad!

6:54 AM  

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