Random Arts

[tealin]

The friend I was paintchatting with had a phone call, and I have always been jealous of people who can paint glass effects realistically, so I painted my refreshing beverage. Matcha lemonade. Best thing ever (or at least this year, in the liquids department). I have to keep going back to Canada so Blenz can keep telling me what drinks are new and delicious. They're 3/3 so far. Also painted my snack. Blueberries = August. That one had been recently washed, that's why it's shiny. They're not usually shiny. But they are usually delicious, as that one was when I decided it was done being my model and I ate it. BC goodness. Thank you, gigantic Sikh blueberry farms, for letting me take part of thy bounty. I don't know what I shall do in September, which is blackberry season, because store-bought blackberries just ... aren't ... right.

It's bloody hot and I can't sleep and the internet is not cooperating. Don't make me watch Road to Perdition again, Internet!


MATCHA LEMONADE
1 cup lemon juice
2 tbsp matcha (green tea) powder
Sugar/Sweetener to taste (I use about 3 tbsp stevia)
2 L water

Mix the matcha powder with enough water to make a liquid about the consistency of paint – it works best to add and mix water gradually, working from a thick paste up to liquid, to avoid little powdery lumps. Add this to the lemon juice and sugar/sweetener. I mix it all up in an old 2L pop bottle and then fill the rest with water but it's probably classier to use a pitcher.

Comments

[octaveleap.livejournal.com]

Very well done! At first glance I honestly thought it was a photo. I love glass effects. (And blueberries!)

[charlottestone.livejournal.com]

That blueberry looks so pretty. And I've never tried matcha lemonade, but now I shall seek it out...I think it's the little diving board that did it for me.

[robyinatree.livejournal.com]

It sounds stupid but your picture is making me really want some of that lemonade.
It just looks so thirst-quenching :)

[fani.livejournal.com]

Matcha lemonade?

[chainedwind.livejournal.com]

Well, the wild blackberries are gone by now. At least the ones around my house are.

[dispergo.livejournal.com]

Both look impossibly delicious right about now.

And bee tee dubs--would it be alright for me to add you as a friend? You seem really cool, and we share many interests~ :D

[followthatcab.livejournal.com]

Have you had the iced matcha latte though? Oh, BLENZ!

[http://users.livejournal.com/__lys_fleurx__/]

I miss your cartoons and miscellaneous doodles.

[phonixa.livejournal.com]

Oo, i must try that! I keep forgetting to pick up some matcha powder, mostly because I haven't the slightest idea where to buy it. Where I live is not exactly the paragon of classy living.

We do have a huge blackberry bush in our backyard and my dad made vats of blackberry jam. Blueberries are the best though.

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

I'd like to try some of that, but I live in Indianapolis, and I have no idea where I would get it around here.

For some reason, I've never cared for blueberries. I don't know why. Strawberries are my personal favorite.

[thegina.livejournal.com]

nice blueberry!! This looks digitally painted, is it?