Olive study in ink and watercolors.

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One of my favorite things about living in Greece is being constantly surrounded by beautiful olive trees. Last year during olive picking season we collected olives from the trees in our neighborhood and made our first attempt at homemade olives...we did some plain with just salt and vinegar, and some with herbs like rosemary and thyme which also grow everywhere around here. This year I'll be sure to take pictures of the olive making process for anyone who might be interested in trying it themselves :)

For now, here's some olive inspired art. I've painted olive trees before, but these were my first attempts at close ups. The first was done with ink and watercolors on watercolor postcard paper, the second with ink and pencil. Both will be available as prints and other products in my Red Finch Designs RedBubble shop. I'm also loving making these little postcard sized paintings so much that I think I'm going to set up another online shop to sell original and custom postcard paintings, I would also be willing to sell custom postcard paintings for steem dollars as well :)