Egg Salad Recipe

Egg Salad

Ingredients:
1 dozen eggs
1 large raw beet, sliced thinly
2 T white vinegar
4 c water
4 T mayonnaise
2 T prepared mustard
2 T kalamata olives, sliced
1/2 c green onions, chopped
Pepper (to taste)
Paprika (to taste)

Put the raw beet slices in a pot with the water and vinegar.  Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer.
Wash the eggs with soap and water, rinse them well, then gently place them in the pot with the beet broth.

I suppose you don't NEED to color the eggs before you turn them into egg salad, but I'm leaving it in the recipe for humorous purposes.

Let the eggs simmer for 15 minutes, then strain the beet broth into a bowl.  Place the eggs in the bowl, and let them soak in the broth overnight in the refrigerator.

I was hoping for a beety magenta color.  I mean, I could have BOUGHT brown eggs.

Gently rinse off the eggs.  Take 6 of the really good-looking ones and put them back in the carton to show people later.
Take the other 6, peel the shells away, and rinse any shell fragments off.

They only taste a little beety.

Put the de-shelled eggs in a bowl with the mayonnaise, mustard, olives, onions, pepper, and paprika.  Use a potato masher to break up the eggs and mix the ingredients thoroughly.

Inktober 11th: Run

The prompt for Inktober 11th is "Run."  October 11th is also National Coming Out Day.  I was inspired by The Wizard of Oz, a source of queer iconography, and also a story about people on a road going towards something rather than away from something; why not have the characters run, like in a friendly race?

I wanted to update the characters' designs a bit.  Unfortunately my artistic ambitions exceed my abilities.  Dorothy and the Lion have torsos which are too long.  I post it on the internet even though I cannot stand to look at it. 

I drew this with a Faber-Castell 9000 4B.  It's really growing on me.

Inktober 10th: Gigantic

I'm feeling better about Inktober today. 

Today's prompt is "Gigantic."  Here I reveal why the pyramids are the shape they are, and why Ra carries a giant grapefruit on his head.

I drew this with a Faber-Castell 9000 4B.

Inktober 9th: Screech

Today's Inktober prompt is "Screech," which is a term for the bald eagle's cry.  Today is also Indigenous Peoples' Day.

The more I drew this, the more angular and stylized it became, like Art Deco propaganda, or Mike Mignola's comics.  I like the look.

I drew this with a Faber-Castell 9000 4B pencil.

Inktober 7th: Shy

I'm playing catch-up with previous days in Inktober.  The prompt for the 7th is "Shy."

I'm sure I have committed a dozen sins against perspective and proportion with this cartoon drawing.  I had difficulty expressing this abstract concept in the form of a single drawing.

My pencil is a DESIGN 3800 in 3B.  Design was once a Venus line of pencils; at some point it was owned by Eberhard-Faber, I purchased one under the Faber-Castell name, and now I suspect the brand is owned by Newell, which has collected all their art pencils under the Prismacolor brand, along with the Turquoise line of drawing pencils.  Sadly, Turquoise has crowded out the beloved Design line.

Inktober 8th: Crooked!

I totally forgot about Inktober!  Unfortunately, I'm not good enough to use ink, and I am a pencil enthusiast, so I'm working in graphite.

The word today is "Crooked."  I have chosen to subvert the intention of this; a shepherd's polearm is known as a crook, and if someone impaled on a spear has been "speared," then surely someone mangled with a crook has been "crooked."  The sheep-stealing wolf could also be described as having crooked ways (hence the bandit mask), and his posture after being mangled could be described as oddly-shaped or "crooked."

Of course I am heavily inspired by the women in my Karate class for the shepherdess' martial pose.

Drawn with a General's Layout on a Pro Art Travel Sketch 70# sketchbook.

Ultropolis Headlines

I found several newspaper clippings from some city I've never heard of called Ultropolis with actual superheroes!  Here are some prominent headlines:

DOCTOR WEDGIE PARALYZES CITY

Mad scientist uses ray to put undies in a bunch

EVIL DOCTOR WEDGIE DEFEATED BY CAPTAIN COMMANDO

Hero somehow unaffected by villain's devices

CAPTAIN COMMANDO TO POLICE: I DON'T NEED DEBRIEFING

Commando refuses to meet with law enforcement

POLICE CHIEF CALLS CAPTAIN COMMANDO "LOOSE CANNON"

Warns Commando may not get needed support

BLISTERING ATTACK BY HOT COFFEE SPILL VILLAIN

First degree burns have city seeing red

CAPTAIN COMMANDO LOSES BATTLE WITH HOT COFFEE SPILL

Hero vulnerable to villain's painful powers

CAPTAIN COMMANDO MOPS FLOOR WITH HOT COFFEE SPILL

Hero adds poncho to utility belt

CRIME QUEEN CHAFING DISH RUBS TOWN WRONG WAY

Femme Fatale creates painful friction

CAPTAIN COMMANDO INCAPACITATED BY CHAFING DISH

Veteran crimefighter nearly loses skin in battle

CHAFING DISH ARRESTED; WORN OUT BY SPEEDY HEROINE "THE STREAK"

Super fast lady runs circles around irritating villain

COMMANDO BLASTS STREAK FOR PUBLIC INDECENCY

Heroine seems to fight crime without clothes

STREAK BEATS PANTS OFF COMMANDO IN FEUD

Streak moves too fast to be seen clearly

STREAK, COMMANDO RECONCILE; STREAK LEAVES TOWN

Police Chief regrets departure but happy to watch her go