In the Seasonal Watercolor class I am teaching I asked my students what images and thoughts came to them about Fall. One of the thoughts a students shared was the thought of being warm and cozy inside while having a bowl of butternut squash soup.

We decided to use the soup recipe for our painting project in class a few weeks ago. With the students standing around my desk while I painted, I asked for their thoughts on what images, colors and words to include in the painting. This is what we came up with. If you decide to make the soup and buy the actual squash, you need to slice 2 squashes in half and get out the seeds and the fibers as best you can. Brush some olive oil on the outsides of the squueze (is that the plural of squash?) then lay them down on a parchment paper covered cookie sheet and bake them for 30 minutes. When they come out of the oven, you can peel off the skin easily with a vegetable peeler, then chop up the squeeze and follow the recipe at the bottom of the picture. The soup was easy to make, even though it sounds a bit complicated, it was not.