Day: December 8, 2007

Art, Collage, Drawings, Journals

Asian Pear

Shelly

Asian Pear
Asian Pear (detail)

I (sort of) tried the pear crisp recipe, as promised. I used Bartlett and d’Anjou pears, and substituted sucanat for brown sugar and old-fashioned rolled oats for quick oats. It worked fine. The oats were a bit chewy, which is to be expected, but it was damn tasty. However, in the future, I think I’ll dust each layer of pears with flour, because the juice was pretty runny.

Pear Crisp
1/2 C rolled oats, uncooked
1/4 C packed brown sugar
2 Tbls flour
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 C cold butter
3 sliced pears
2 Tbls lemon juice

Preheat oven 375F
Combine first 6 ingredients in bowl, cutting butter with knives or a pastry cutter. Toss sliced pears with lemon juice. Layer pears in 9 inch pie pan and top with oatmeal mixture. Bake for 20 minutes.

Art, Collage, Drawings

Saint Mary of the Pears

Shelly

Bosc Pear
Bosc Pear (detail)

I used graphite on another page from the patent book, but this time, I primed it with a thin coat of gesso.

Every time I see a Bosc pear, it makes me think of the Gothic S curve. If you look at the figure of the Virgin, you’ll see that it’s just about impossible to stand in that position. Her hip is thrust out in the opposite direction from both her feet and shoulders. Bosc pears have much the same sort of, um, stance.

(Apologies for the moire. I tried descreening the scan, but the image of the Virgin and Child was taken from an auction catalog, and the print quality was pretty bad. You can easily see the dot pattern with the naked eye.)

Crankypantsing, Meta, Photography

Comments

Shelly

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I’ve been a bad blogger lately. Most of my free time has been taken up with genealogy crap. I’ve also been inundated with a spectacular amount of blog spam. I’ve installed several filters on the back side, but a large volume of spam is still getting through. Not to the blog itself, but I get e-mail notifications for all the ones that the back-end filters miss. That number has gone up to hundreds each day, which means I’ve had to filter my e-mail, too. Some of the notifications for legit comments have gotten lost in that mess. Not the comments themselves, just the notifications.

That’s all by way of explaining why I did not realize there were comments. Oops!

And now, another random pee-chur from last Sunday. This one without pretty cyan skies. I don’t know why I’m fascinated with electric poles and pylons, but I am. It’s hard to believe that something so primitive could have such a huge impact on our everyday lives.