Spousal bentos

[dreamshark]

I was too tired last night to make lunch before I crashed, so my dear husband surprised me by making a bento for me. Awww, how sweet. It's interesting to compare and contrast his creation with mine from the day before. Similar ingredients but a slightly different esthetic.

	#12 - Feb 1, 2010 Finally, on bento #12, I include some rice. Stuffed salmon roulette (Trader Joe), brown rice with nori flowers, steamed broccoli and red onion, grape tomatoes, salad. Red cabbage leaf as a container for the salmon (an example of "edible partitions", but I'm not planning to eat it).
	#13 - Richard's first bento - Feb 2, 2010 Leftover tuna rice cassserole with red pepper star, spinach salad with ham and cheese, melon balls, apple slices, smoked almonds and a heart-shaped egg.

Comments

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

They both look good; it looks like Richard is more into the shapes.

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

That may well be. I noticed that his arrangement is just busier than mine tend to be. I'm more concerned with the overall composition; he likes to get in as many different colors and shapes as he possibly can. All of my bentos so far have a little open space in them with only minimal decoration, like the field of rice in the top bento. I also like diagonals (note the diagonal line that runs from the green cup in the lower left hand corner to the upper right).

If I had been making this one, I would have left out the little cubes of ham and cheese on the salad or I would have cut it into long thin pieces and arranged it diagonally along one side. And I certainly wouldn't have felt it necessary to add the little red rectangle on top of the egg heart.

Not that I'm complaining - just thought it interesting how our individual styles come through.

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

Exactly. That's always something that interests me in seeing the work of two artists. :)

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

I think you might be the only one in my little audience that appreciated why I posted the two of them together. Thanks.

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

You betcha. :)

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

That IS so sweet! And he did a lovely job of it, too.

I would just about drop my teeth with surprise if Rob ever did that for me.