Chanterelles

by Beverley Harper Tinsley

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$35

Dimensions

8.000 x 5.000 inches

Title

Chanterelles

Artist

Beverley Harper Tinsley

Medium

Painting - Watercolor And Graphite

Description

Chanterelles
These warm, golden-yellow and orange wild mushrooms are painted with a light hand, on re-purposed paper from an outdated, aging, yellowing and falling apart book. The paper proves ideal for a warm, natural appearance that compliments natural subjects, although it is tricky to work on. The original has deckled/torn edges, and would look good either floated or matted and framed. I have painted near the center of the full sized book page, so if you have the original, you can decide how much to show in the frame. This is part of a series of up-cycled art I am developing using old books and sheet music no longer in use.
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Two warm-colored tasty chanterelles almost seem to dance together. Chanterelles are much sought after edible mushrooms, and a culinary delight, as well as a prize find here in Colorado. I will be offering the original painting for sale at the annual Telluride Mushroom Festival, or Shroomfest.
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According to:
http://www.mssf.org/cookbook/chanterelle.html
Cantharellus cibarius
This pleasantly aromatic fleshy wild mushroom shines like an exotic golden flower when seen from a distance against the drab autumn forest background. Also known as "golden chanterelle" and "egg mushroom," it has a magical appeal for most culinary experts in Europe, United States, and Asia. But all chanterelles are not alike. European and Asian forms are usually about the size of a thumb. In the eastern United States they are the size of a fist. But, ah, in the west they can be as large as two hand spans--from little finger to little finger. Chanterelles weighing as much as two pounds are not uncommon.
Europeans and easterners claim that their varieties are tastier than those from the West Coast and suggest that flavor is more important than thumb size. It has been a rewarding experience to try to resolve this argument. The reader may happily experiment with such savory adventures as are suggested in this book to discover the truth.
Chanterelles seem to be worth their weight in gold. They are golden looking, golden tasting, and golden priced. The cap is fleshy, with wavy, rounded cap margins tapering downward to meet the stem. The gills are not the usual thin straight panels hanging from the lower surface of the cap, as we see in the common store mushroom. Instead, the ridges are rounded, blunt, shallow, and widely spaced. At the edge of the cap they are forked and interconnected. The chanterelle's aroma is variously described as apricot- or peachlike. It is unmistakably different and identifiable.
Chanterelles will reappear in the same places year after year if carefully harvested so as not to disturb the ground in which the mycelium (the vegetative part of the mushroom) grows. There are yearly variations--some years more mushrooms, some less. They fruit from September to February on the West Coast and almost all summer in the east, sometimes coming up in several flushes. We think of them as promiscuous in their plant relationships, because we have found their mycelial threads intertwined with the roots of hardwood trees, conifers, shrubs, and bushes. They enjoy deep, old leaf litter. Chanterelles are seldom invaded by insects. And forest animals do not share our interest in them as food. For more information and recipes, I suggest visiting the provided link.
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Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value.
The first recorded use of the term upcycling was by Reiner Pilz of Pilz GmbH in an article by Thornton Kay of Salvo in 1994.
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Some words used to describe this painting are:
fournissent les bois, the woods provide, mushroom, mushrooms, shiitake, shiitakes, shiitake mushrooms, eat, food, forest, nature, woods, trees, fungus, fungi, telluride mushroom festival, shrooms, shroomfest, earth, earthy, earth tones, brown, gold, foody, foodie, gourmet, cook, cooking, chef, kitchen, foray, hunt, gather, harvest, fall, autumn, delicious, taste, raw, wild, watercolor, beverley harper tinsley, saute, edible mushroom, edible mushrooms, asia, asian, Lentinula edodes, Oakwood, yum, warm, warm colors, warm tones

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August 13th, 2013

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