Illustration for a menu cover
I made some mistakes in this pen and ink drawing. It was created while sitting at my kitchen table in Colorado.The owner of the restaurant had several reams of the gold card stock paper in his store room. I had to create his menu that would fit on an 8 1/2" x 10" piece of paper. I folded it, and made a four page menu ~ each page with artwork. He would have my original printed into hundreds of menus.
Customers wanted one, so it was good advertising for him and his restaurant. At the bottom of the cover menu I printed the name of the restaurant and address. I told him that I had made some mistakes in the cover drawing. He just hugged me and said, "That only proves a human being made this menu, not a machine. I can't see any mistakes. It is human beings cooking and serving all the food on the menu. We make mistakes.
The menu has much meaning. It is my illustrated creation of Native American cardinal directions of North, South, East and West. Each direction represented by corn, tobacco, beans and squash. In the center is the sun.
