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Delicatessen

11/8/2019

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We recently attended one of our favourite markets of the year, the Wellington Polish Christmas Market. As we started ramping up to prepare for our end-of-year markets, I got inspired to do some designs focused around the delights of European food. 
I had just finished my fungi of the Pacific Northwest design, and I had also just joined "Show me your charcuterie" on Facebook, so the stars aligned for me to create one of my favourite designs this quarter.

Charcuterie

Charcuterie (pronounced "CHAR-coo-t'ree" or "CHAR-coo-te-ree", click here to listen), is the branch of cooking devoted to prepared meat products, such as bacon, ham, sausage, terrines, galantines, ballotines, pâtés, and confit, primarily from pork.
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For this design, I worked from my own photos, experience, imagination, and a lot of research online.  ​I started with the sketch, which represents the pencil stage, then I overlay that sketch, changed to green, with plain black lines, which represent the ink stage.
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​In the first image, below, I have created a diagonal grid texture (in green), which I then use in several of the different meats. 
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Diagonal grid texture for salami
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Creating more textures
That worked really well, so I created several more textured and used them to add variety to several of my other shapes.
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Next, I used some basic colours to represent the different shades of brown, so that I can be sure to get a good dispersal across the different types of cured meats.
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I use lime green to help me identify the areas that still need to be coloured. 
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Right, all coloured - time to build a repeat! I made one that was just meat, and one that's more of a charcuterie platter - it includes designs from my cheese design, and some extra fruit, olives, a couple of gherkins. 
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Charcuterie design - Click on this image to shop on Spoonflower
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Charcuterie platter design - click on this image to shop on Redbubble
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Bonus pic of the huz in the meat shirt at our latest market. You are welcome.

Boulangerie

What are the most important accompaniments to a good cured meat? BREADS, that's what. 
The word "boulangerie" means a bakery in French, so it's a good word to use for the accompanying design to charcuterie. Again, many of these are breads that I have seen, baked, and eaten myself. 
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Same process here - "pencil" in green, then "pen" in black. 
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Here's an example of a tile layout before and after turning it into a proper repeat.
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Click on the image to shop on Spoonflower
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Click on the image to shop on Redbubble
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