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leonard sketch / sept 2015 / 65 x 50cm / salt on black paper

Very cool! Do you spray something on it to preserve it, or does it end up on your dinner?

LisaLCFan wrote:Very cool! Do you spray something on it to preserve it, or does it end up on your dinner?

thank you, lisa. i actually had half an hour at home earlier today so relaxed with a salt cellar. it's quite easy to do, as long as you don't sneeze. i never use salt in the kitchen, prefer the taste of the food. no, i don't try to keep this type of drawing, it's impossible - just do it for fun. i tried first with a packet of mashed-potato powder that had gone past its 'use by' date in 2010, but it wouldn't behave on the paper. forgetting to take a photo before hoovering the portrait up is a frequent occurrence, but today i remembered in time. people say salt brings out the taste in food, but that has no foundation in logic.

I am glad to hear that you don't use salt on your food. I was going to add, to my original post, a warning about too much salt consumption, but clearly that was unnecessary! I have never even bought salt -- it doesn't make food taste better, it just makes it taste salty, and I've never cared for the taste of salt. Restaurant food (at least in N. America) is terrible for that -- everything tastes like bags of salt have been dumped on it. I seldom eat out, for that reason.

I am also glad that you remembered to take a photo of this picture -- it is (was?) a beaut!

LisaLCFan wrote:I am glad to hear that you don't use salt on your food. I was going to add, to my original post, a warning about too much salt consumption, but clearly that was unnecessary! I have never even bought salt -- it doesn't make food taste better, it just makes it taste salty, and I've never cared for the taste of salt. Restaurant food (at least in N. America) is terrible for that -- everything tastes like bags of salt have been dumped on it. I seldom eat out, for that reason.

I am also glad that you remembered to take a photo of this picture -- it is (was?) a beaut!

thank you, lisa. the picture is now safely stored away in a hoover bag. it seems we have a common dislike of salt. i only bought a packet because a guest complained there was no taste to the fried herring he was served - stupid-looking twat that he is. it's good for making sketches, melting ice on the balcony in winter, or sprinkling a few grains on a slug - but apart from that it's of no more use to me than rat shit on a door handle. certainly not fit for human consumption, as is well documented.

I don't use salt much at all... went for years using none, but then read where there's a certain level of iodine [iodized salt] that we need, so relented and now us it occasionally. I think it adds nothing [but that salty taste] in most situations. I, too, prefer the taste of the natural food... or using good-for-you spices. Hard to believe thatyou can make salt behave so well, such as you do in these salt portraits, g.