Peas and Honey

PEAS, Please.

I mix peas with other items; I do eat them raw. But I am not drawn to them, except for the funny little poem by Ogden Nash that I read as a child:

I eat my peas with honey
I’ve done it all my life;
It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on my knife.

Ogden Nash, according to a Wiscasset Newspaper reader

Every time I see a pea, this poem pops into my head and makes me smile.

Since today the food prompt from Lisa Bardot’s Making Art Every Day prompts is “green peas,” this little poem needed to be the star.

Again I chose the Midcentury style— it’s simple, irregular, imperfect shapes and limited palette with half-tones and stylized shading make it easier to illustrate than more natural, realistic styles, which, since I’m still struggling with Covid is important to drawing to every day.

I hope you smile with this bit of art.

Also in the “colorful foods” series: