Hello there! I’m Heather Diane, an illustrator and sign painter at New Bohemia Signs living in Berkeley, California. I created this blog to share my two loves of imaging making and food. This blog is a celebration of all things delicious and I hope you enjoy! If you would like to say hello, or if you have any suggestions please email me at hdhardison@gmail.com. If you would like to check out more of my work, head on over to heather-hardison.com, check me out on Flickr, or follow me on Twitter.
You can hire me! I’m open to most image making opportunities. Shoot me an email, I’d love to chat.
Illustrated Bites 
what a neat blog! your pictures are just wonderful.
Your blog is so fun! 🙂
Grrrreat bloggy!!
Thank you so much!
Fabulous Heather. Have you made posters?
Hi Amanda! I haven’t made posters but I’ve got plans on the back burner for an illustrated bites etsy shop. I just need to get my butt in gear!
I’d buy them in a heartbeat! 🙂
I would also buy them in a heart beat! They are great.
Yes, please start an etsy shop! We are redoing our kitchen and I would LOVE some prints to hang up!
us too! please start a poster shop!
I will, for the holidays! I promise!
Just came across your blog and I love it!! The illustrations are amazing!
Thank you so much Karen! It’s always motivating and exciting to hear when people are enjoying my work. Take care!
Instant love! Your blog is gorgeous – I adore your illustrations and then I came across the words ‘bananas’ and ‘cornbread’ together and fell head over heels. Thank you for being out here.
I appreciate the kind words! Thank you for reading my blog!
This is fantastic! I just stumbled onto your blog via stumbleupon and I’ve sat here admiring your work for quite some time now. You should consider maybe a fun illustrated cook book! I’d definitely buy it 🙂
Thank you Carman! Doing an illustrated sketchbook would be a dream project. Perhaps one day!
I love your illustrated recipes! Very fun XD
Thanks Jenny! So glad you found my site and are enjoying it!
My roomate just made your apply crisp. It was DELICIOUS!!!! I poked around on your blog and you have some great advice with a very artistic way of showing what your teaching. Im going to add this to my favorites and try some other recipes you’ve got on here. Thanks so much for creating a blog so unique and artsy! 🙂
Wow, I totally love your illustrations! Makes cooking/baking look really fun, and inspires me vis a vis my own artistic pursuits. I think IKEA should hire you to replace their generally awful (& intimidating) drawn instructions for furniture assembly. Cheers 🙂
Wow I think your blog is fab — cooking and illustration — 2 things I love as well!!
Keep up the good work 🙂
This is a really nice take on food and illustration put together. I love the details and colours, which obviously reflects on culinary skills and lovely food ^_^
Would be great to have it as an actual recipe cook book. So much easier to follow than just having instructions!
I love your blog and your work! Really inspiring!
Congratulations on being “freshly pressed” . Love your blog and the illustrations. Very clever. Going to try some of the recipes too.
Great blog! It must take you some time to do each blog post –writing, drawing and embedding all this together in 1 composition. You should turn some of this stuff into an e-book.
delicious blog! congratulations! i am so happy to have found this place I hope come here often 🙂
Thank you for sharing all your ideas, projects and illustrations w/ us.
I love your blog’s concept!! 5 stars***** 🙂
Awww, Thank you!
I love your blog. So different from every other food blogs. Your illustrations are very cool. Congratulations
Very amazing blog. I will follow you!!
Very amazing blog. I will follow you!!!
so wonderful blog! i love it!
really cool 😀 You’re combining just te same hobbies as I do: art and cooking
Even though my boyfriend’s and my blog tries o combine the same feature it’s completely different. I admire xour work and will surely have a few more looks around to get inspired 😉
So excited to have found your blog! Yumminess in blog form! Hooray!
great blog! love your drawings.
Great blog! I love your work. How do you make these images? What do you use?
Hi Grace! I draw everything with pen and then scan it into the computer and digitize it and add color. I mostly work with Adobe Illustrator
Oh right! Thanks for the reply! I’ll bear this in mind as I’d like to make my own illustrations look a bit more professional like yours do!
Lovely blog, very creative! Really enjoyed looking at your work.
Hi Heather, my name is Alexandra, I’ve also got a blog here on WordPress. In my blog I’ve got this category titled DISCOVER where I like to feature LOVELY and CREATIVE finds I come across on the web…today I found one of your illustrations on Pinterest and had to put together a post featuring your blog and the fabulous illustrations you’ve got on here. Congratulations on your incredible work and thank you for sharing them with the rest of us through ILLUSTRATED BITES
I’m glad to hear you like my work. Thanks for all the blog love!
my pleasure, the post is up if you’d like to take a look! read you soon, I now following your posts
nice blog!
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hi i was reading your recepie for the brioche but i think there is a mistak, you wrote about a cup of lukewarm water and then 1tbs of milk but then at steps
1. Combine the warm milk, honey, and yeast and let it stand until it’s foamy, about 5 minutes.
2. Add the olive oil, eggs and salt, and stir to blend.
Wehre is the water then??? because a tbs of milk for that amount of flour it doesn’t look to be enough. I wondering if has to be a cup of milk and 1tbs of water….thanks because i was thinking to bake them today hope you can answer me
You’re right! Thank you for catching that. It is one cup of lukewarm milk, not water. Then it’s one tbs of milk for the glaze. I’m just so used to starting breads with yeast and warm water, that I let habit take over. Thank you.
Hi Heather,
thank you too, I liked your recipe looks less complicated than thousand that i read, and i want to be sure i understood heehhe, sorry i hope my comment didn’t sound arsh 🙂 thanks…. I like your blog and your art….hope after your exhibition you will have time to write som more reipe 🙂
SO CUTE!
Hey there… I follow your blog and I think it’s absolutely fantastic! Just the idea of putting illustrations and your love of cooking together is great. Wish I could do illustrations like you coz I definitely love to cook, then I would also be able to put down recipes into pictures 🙂
Amazing blog. Amazing art. Keep going… we all love your work!
Lovely neat blog..how I wished I had done it ::)) brilliant and congratulations!!
Hi Heather
I absolutely love what you’re doing here so I’ve nominated you for the Kreative Blogger Award. Keep up the fantastic work
Fiona
I’m flattered! Thank you so much. Cheers!
Your blog is a delight especially for a person like me who is so passionate about anything that relates to art and equally about cooking colourful and healthy meals for the family ! Love it and so am ‘following’ !
Thank you!
This is a little too wonderful!!
Great blog! Featured your herbs drawing on my facebook page.
i’ve just discovered your little blog. adore it! just added you to bloglovin and following on twitter 🙂
I just love your artwork! I’ve been looking for unique art to hang in my kitchen & haven’t been happy w what’s out there already. Would love to hang some of your stuff in my kitchen. Keep us posted on your Etsy shop!
Stupendous blog! Cartoons + Food = BRILLIANT!
I’ve only looked at three posts and KNOW that I want a recipe book done by you. It would be outstanding! Please make one!
Hi Heather 🙂 I stumbled across your blog, and it is now one of my favourites. I have printed two posters of “The Basics of Herbs” which I’ve hung up in my Food Tech classroom at school and at home. I was wondering whether you would consider doing a similar one with spices??? It’s just really handy to refer to 🙂 Keep up the great work!
у вас наверное получается всё очень вкусное!
Hi Heather, I have nominated you for the ‘Kreativ Blogger Award’. Please come by to collect the award here – https://colorodyssey.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/blogger-awards/
Cheers!
Ritu
You are seriously talented! I cannot wait to feast my eyes on your illustrations. Finding you blog may have made my day!
WHOOOHOO!!! I love this Blog!!! Thank you for being so awesomely YOU!!!
Definitely need an Etsy shop!
Congratulations! I have awarded you the One Lovely Blog Award. You have a wonderful blog!
The Rules for Award participation are:
1. Link back to the blogger who nominated you.
2. Paste the award image on your blog, anywhere.
3. Tell them 7 facts about yourself.
4. Nominate 9 other blogs you like for this award
5. Contact the bloggers that you have chosen to let them know that they have been nominated
Check out my site to see the post with the official nomination, meliovore.wordpress.com and pick up the graphic while you are at it.
All the best,
Janice
Hello(:
Wow, I see someone beat me to it when it comes to the nomination! Well, your illustrations are simply the cutest and adding food is genius! So I also nominated you for the “One Lovely Blog” Award(:
Come check it out at http://coffeeantics.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/123/.
Keep up with the amazing stuff!
Anna Garcia
Your illustrations are amazing! I’ve just saved all of them and will be putting them up on my kitchen wall! Thanks 🙂
Here is yet another nomination–I love your blog! http://whatwillicooktoday.wordpress.com/2012/07/23/versatile-blogger-award/
Hi there! I have just nominated you for the Versatile Blogger award. As an artist and a lover of gardening, local produce and healthy cooking, I have really enjoyed your work! Details can be found here: http://blog.laurawooten.com/2012/07/26/thank-you/
Best wishes!
I’m from the East Coast but I lived in Berkeley for the last two years. I love food! I worked at a restaurant in the Gourmet Ghetto in the Epicurious Garden building (maybe we crossed paths and didn’t even know!) I’m now going to school for Culinary Arts up in Washington state and your illustrations are a big help for all the things I’m memorizing. Thanks so much!
Hi! I am a Culinary Arts instructor at a small-town Texas high school. I would love to use some of your work in my classroom. Please let me know what we could work out so that I may print these out to hang on the walls. Thanks!
Love your work- is their no way to obtain copies for my kitchen?
Just came across your blog and it’s really great. I’m just starting my blog and yours is a great inspiration. 🙂
I am a fan of all things art and I Love your blog! (like I already said before) How I wish you were on this coast then I couldve met you and shared my love for food and illustration!
Your blog have inspired me and therefore I am passing the Inspiring Blog Award. Please visit http://cookingwithmamamiyuki.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/inspiring-blog-award/ to see the rules
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I just love your blog ! U got so much talent !!
I just begin mine, if you could visit it just to tell me what u think about it 🙂 🙂
I love your illustrations! How wonderful, this blog is great and I’m so glad I stumbled across it 🙂
Hope you had a delicious Christmas. I’m definitely following into the New Year, great stuff! Lovely dress too, where did you get it? 🙂
Really lovely blog with a wonderful illustration style & charming typography! There’s much heart in it!
Heather, I love your artwork. You are such a talented illustrator. I haven’t seen a salsa recipe before that requires the salsa to “ferment” on the counter, although the recipe I use does call for white vinegar to help preserve the salsa. Can you supply any links to research the reasons for the fermentation period?
I also believe that “Separation” might be a more appropriate spelling in the last sentence.
Thanks for sharing your work. I hope it’s okay to pin them to my Pinterest boards.
Whoops! Thanks for the spelling note, I’m fixing that right now. The fermentation process is to slightly pickle the peppers through lacto-fermentation. The salt kills bad bacteria and the lactobacillus bring out a slight tang in the flavor. I wrote about it awhile back https://illustratedbites.wordpress.com/?s=lacto+fermentation
also, http://www.nourishingdays.com/2009/07/the-benefits-of-fermented-food-lacto-fermented-
Great work congradulation! It’s fun! Are you on etsi yet? I’d like to buy some posters.
Suggestion : you should draw a conversion chart IF we can buy it :-).
I’m not on Etsy yet. I’ve started a page but it’s a big commitment to start a new component to my business. It’s a major goal for 2013! Thanks for asking!
Hi! Nice work! We love your blog so we just wrote a review on ours.
Thanks for sharing your awesome work! =D
What a gorgeous blog! I LOVE your work. It’s so unique : )
Really awesome illustrations. What a great idea! I hope you have a cookbook in the works at some point! 🙂
I found your blog through Pinterest… I LOVE the illustrations… I would seriously want to just pin your entire site.
I can’t believe I’m just finding out about your blog. Truly beautiful work
I love your drawings! And I love food! This…what you’ve got here… It’s just perfect 🙂
Such an adorable blog 🙂
Your blog is amazing, I adore your illustrations, nice work. Love it and so I’m following!
Cheers Anto
You look like such a fun person to be with! I stumbled upon your blog and love it!
Really loved your blog! Shared it with my staff team in Vancouver as we are working on an eduble garden project!
Great! Good luck with your garden!
Hi Heather! You had me at Illustrated! I LOVE your blog header, it is so cute and it reminds of something that I’d make. I’m an illustrator too from Bombay, and it’s always nice to come across new talent in the blog world. And of course, I have a soft spot for illustrators! 🙂 Can’t wait to start getting updates from your blog. { http://www.jupiterskye.com }
Absolutely love your blog! I just found it and am delighting in your informative and whimsical illustrations.
Hi Heather, I know this sounds nasty of me but I rarely write on peoples about pages. But wow I just must do so here because I just came across your blog now and I love your illustrations and ideas, everything is so adorable and cheerful. Take care xx
Thanks Sofia!
I really like your block and your wonderful illustrations. Have you thought about a Behance-account? I’m more than shure you would have a lot of followers there. Your style is quite unique.
Fantastic illustrations. There are so many food blogs out there, but your work instantly sets yours apart. Well done.
I adore you illustrations and your blog! I want to nominate you for the Shine on Award 🙂
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Keep up the beautiful work!
Eleanor
Your blog is so delightful. I look forward to your posts in the future as I follow you.have a wonderful day, Allie.
Hi, I just stumbled upon your site, loved! Do you sell your art in posters or something, some of them would go great in my kitchen.
Nice work!
Nice blog!!
Fantastic blog! So glad I found it. Have a wonderful week! 🙂
I just found your blog…beautiful
Found your blog through a Pinterest pin to your primer on knives; lovely work!!! I’m a dietitian who graduated from San Jose State Univ (possibly before you were born!!!) Have a lovely day and good luck with all your endeavors. 🙂
Love your blog! Definitely following! X
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I love the concept behind this blog! 🙂
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I love your blog! Your illustrations are beautiful on top of being fun and informative. 🙂
Your Blog is absolutely a treat. Great work!
I am starting my new Blog too and really excited about it 🙂
Tips & tricks most welcome!
Thank you for this! Nice illustrations. You obviously used Illustrator! I come from Berkeley, too! Yours is the first other WP blog I’ve checked out.
Ran across your blog today, and just have to let you know what a beautiful job you are doing with your illustrations. I’m following you just to see what you are up to! Best of luck!
Hi, I bumped into your blog by accident to. Its absolutely great! I will follow also 🙂 Hope I can make mine fun one day as I,m still learning. Enjoy :):)
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Great blog, wish I had your talent! Thanks for sharing your talent.
Love you work! Very interesting
Hi there – I love your blog, and am going to find it very useful! I do have one request, though … Could you provide a clickable list of categories? I’m currently planning a veggie garden and it would be so handy to be able to access everything you have, say, on specific herbs or vegetables … and come fall I’m going to want to read everything you’ve written about preserving the harvest.
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