You can find a subject for a painting or inspiration for a painting or drawing all around you!

This is a picture of a lovely savoy cabbage and some cucumbers from our garden. This year we have enjoyed potatoes, spring onions, lettuce and many more delights.

Vertumnus by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Vertumnus is a painting by painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo produced in Milan c. 1590–1591. The painting is Arcimboldo’s most famous work and is a portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II re-imagined as Vertumnus, the Roman god of metamorphoses in nature and in life.

Fancy having a go recreating this portrait?? https://vangoyourself.com/paintings/vertumnus/