Blue Mesa Update and Crab Watercolor by Texas Artist Nancy Standlee

If you follow this blog, you know that I have done some illustration work for the Blue Mesa Restaurant chain menus. In May Blue Mesa will have a special event “Gulf Seafood Festival” and the owner asked for a few more pieces to illustrate some specialty items. I don’t know a lot about crabs or craw fish and don’t think I’ve ever eaten one, maybe crab cakes one time in Sedona so some research was needed before putting brush to paper. 
One of the first things I found and practiced was how to draw a crab. http://www.dragoart.com/tuts/1365/1/1/how-to-draw-a-crab.htm

Here is the new menu and it’s different and fun and with the spirals new items can be added easily.

 Example of one of the pages and these drinks are some of my favorites to paint.

 Now for some family photos that were taken on Sunday night where 18 members of my family and friends gathered at 5:00 for a special meal and celebration of the new menus out on the patio area. I felt so at home there as this is where I’d retreat to do the drawings and paintings for the menu in the fall.  Another reason this was a special family gathering, my older son was celebrating his 56th birthday and it was the first time we’ve all been together since his devastating house fire the last of January. We enjoyed holding the new great grand baby, Cash and wearing him out by passing him up one side of the table and down the other.

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