DAP CODE:YELLOW

DAP CODE:SLACKER

Sorry about the lack of posts this week.  It’s been busy and I just had not found the time to sit down and do art.  So, to make up for this past week, I decided to kinda cheat and made a single pice of artwork that contains all the images for this past week’s theme.

Henry’s Cookbook 2

Here is my second attempt at cooking a chicken dinner with random vegetables and spices.  This is probably my best attempt so far.

Ingredients for chicken:

• approx 3 large boneless skinless chicken breasts
• 1 large tomato
• 1 half of large yellow onion
• half a can of corn
• about 1 tablespoon salt
• 1 tablespoon black pepper
• 1 tablespoon Cajun seasoning
• half a cup of homemade salsa
• a pinch of cumin
• approx. half a cup of mozzarella cheese

To start it off, I placed the diced onions, corn and tomatoes into a pan by themselves with a little bit of vegetable oil.  After letting that cook for a minute, I added in the spices and let it cook.  Meanwhile, I started another pan to cook the chicken in.  After letting the chicken brown, I added  the homemade salsa.  I continued to cook the items separately and began to work on the muffins.  After getting the muffins into the oven, I mixed both the vegetable mix and browned salsa chicken together and cooked it on low until Bethany got off of work.  Once Bethany arrived, I added in the mozzarella cheese and brought it to the table warmed.  The tortillas were store-bought, so I just threw them into the microwave for a little over a minute to warm.  Served with sour cream and cheddar cheese, the dish made excellent taco’s! 

Another key item to my dish was the homemade salsa (2nd attempt as well) that I prepared beforehand.

Ingredients for homemade salsa:

• 1 large tomato
• 1 half large yellow onion
• 1 can Rotel tomato and chili mix
• 2 aged Jalepenos
• 1/4 cup Garden Vegetable Chunky Ragu sauce
• a pinch of garlic powder
• salt
• pepper

To start this off, I had to boil the jalepenos, onion, and tomato.  Once soft, I cut the vegetables into fourths and tossed them into the blender 2 pieces at a time.  About halfway through those, I added the can of Rotel.  Unfortunately, I forgot to drain it before adding it, causing the end result to be a little runny…again.  Anywho, after adding in the Rotel, I continued to add the rest of the vegetable and blending them into a good consistency.  Then, added in the garlic powder, pepper, salt and Ragu sauce.  Now, you might be wondering “Why in the world Ragu sauce?!”  Well, I did not have any tomato paste on hand.  And while Ragu sauce is Ragu sauce, using only a small amount achieves the same effect, which is to sweeten the salsa to take away the kick of the tomato.  So after adding those in, I blended it for a just a few second more to mix it in well.  It creates about 2 decent sized bowls of salsa and is about a 6 out of 10 on the salsa hotness scale.

 Overall dinner rating:

  out of 5

DAP CODE:BIRD

Yesterday me and Beth decided to have our own little themed sketch practice.  I came up with the idea of “Birds” for us to sketch without a real example.  Tomorrow however, I think we will be doing a still life of something that she chooses.  Here is the bird entry I did.  If you wish to see Bethany’s just follow this link.

DAP CODE:CATCH-UP

Here are some more characters I did.  I did most them at the begining of the week, I just havent had time to to upload them.

DAP CODE:BLUBBER BOY

Henry’s Cookbook

I decided to try my hand at yet another random home made dish this evening. A stir-fry like concoction made up of 3 chicken breasts, 2 jalapenos, a full tomato and a full onion. I started by stir-frying the vegetables in one pan and cooking the chopped up chicken breasts in another. Added some garlic powder to the chicken and some salt n’ pepper to both. After that, just added in a hint of nutmeg for sweetness and some cumin. The end result was quite fabulous. The jalepenos are not too hot up front, letting you enjoy the flavor of the mixed vegetables. But after the second bite, PHEW, it hits you pretty hard. I think that it would have gone really well with some tortillas, but unfortunately I had none, nor did I want to make any. However, I did eat it with some cheddar cheese and regular white bread. End result, yummy!

3.5 out of 5 golden forks.

DAP CODE:BATMAN

DAP CODE:MUSCLE

I went to the Lubbock Comic-Con today, and I must say it was AWESOME!  I met a lot of great artist’s there and the costume contest was a blast.  I only walked away with one piece of memorobilia though, a preview of the comic, Vault.  They aparently work closely with Will Terrel and I don’t doubt for a minute that they are from the Lubbock Sketch Club.  Anywho, I really enjoyed their style that used dark tones and moody scenes.  My entry for the DAP today is actually a character named “The Arsonist” from the Vault Comic preview. 

DAP CODE:NEW THEME

Yes, it is that time of the week again.  The time when a new theme is introduced into this daily art world.  I decided to go with simple for mine, yet still fun.  This week’s theme will be CHARACTERS.  The goal of this theme is to practice the art of interjecting personality into your pieces.  So go out there, have some fun, and create some greatness!