Spring, summer, fall, or winter - there's never a bad time to eat outside.

On my dream board for this year, I wrote in big swirly lettering- New house and a proper studio.
And it's happening!

So my dream picnic will be at our new house, which we will be in at end of September, woot woot!
With cake, because I just turned 50 and there must always be cake, birthday or not, jellybeans- my creative brain fuel, deviled eggs with a sprinkly of curry or paprika because nommmm, a big fresh greens salad to balance that all out, topped with flowers from our new yard, and time for art. And a cosmo, because dammit they are delicious.
Also considering green hair, so there's that, to match our new beautiful green surroundings, with bonus palm trees- yes in Canada!

(Entry for the Let's Have a Picnic! Handpicked Design Challenge)

Even though it will still be summer weather for a long time here in Virginia, I'm looking ahead to picnics in the crisp fall air. Here's my dream menu for a super easy and cozy fall picnic. I tried to structure this piece like a magazine spread, with seasonal flavors like cranberry, squash, and apple, and fun ideas for recyclable packaging and utensil-free eating.

I created this piece in watercolor, ink, and digital media. Special thanks to my mom Shelley, for helping me brainstorm the concept, my sister Katie for writing the snappy magazine-inspired copy, and Nate and Salli for the beautiful Corita font on the dish titles!

Let’s have a vegan picnic with fresh fruit, lemonade, delicious salad, hummus, sandwiches and cake!

Dreaming among the flowers, surrounded by fruit, a good book and some music! I illustrated all of the treats I love to have at a picnic. And having an outside nap makes this whole thing even sweeter.

The thought of a picnic conjures up images of sitting by water on a long, hot, summer day, with delicious snacks and wine on ice in a cooler.

For the design challenge: Let's have a picnic - I found myself thinking about a picnic from the perspective of ants...

When you aren't looking, you might have some uninvited guests show up to join your summer picnic!

Hand made illustration, I'm rememberying my feeling of pick up cherries when I was a child, I just to love to go to my grandaunt's house and picked the most delicious cherries, so my illustration has all the things and lovely family that were there.
This illustration is made by ink, water colours and gouache.

A fresh picnic for the summer full of lemons, flamingos and croquet.

I am a Portuguese illustrator who has lived in Milan for 8 years. The memories I have of Portugal are varied but the smell of food that is felt throughout the house while my mom is cooking is one of the things I miss most. "Bacalhau" (cod fish) is in fact a very common food in our kitchens as well as chouriço accompanied by a good wine. This is thus a representation of a Portuguese house

As a family, we have been going up to the lake once a week and have a picnic. This is inspired by my daughter and I and our many picnics this summer.

When I traveled around Spain one summer, I would stop at a shop in the mornings to pack my picnic of a fresh pan de barra, a pack of Spanish olives, a tin of tuna, and maybe some Seville oranges. A moveable—and carefree—feast!

we eat and drink together and we we have a wonderful time