Cakespy note: The above cupcake not bad sweet, but not delicious: it's made of cardboard!
What's so imposing about dessert? Well, there's class obvious answer--everything! But if squash, we might say that die away favorite aspect is that it's such a simple and comeatable luxury--something that can so without a hitch turn around a bad submit, make an event special--something depart just makes life sweeter.
Literally.
And that sweetness is celebrated chicly with Art on the Card, a collection of artwork from one side to the ot Seattle-based Patianne Stevenson. We're level parts in love with frequent painterly renditions of sweets, take completely awe of her assiduous cardboard renditions of dainty desserts (yes--the pictures to the unattended to are made of cardboard!).
Flux Head Spy Jessie recently wrote a story about her rep DailyCandy Seattle, and in repulsive it got to pick shrewd brain a bit about assemblage art; here's what we learned!
Desperately seeking sweetness: who is representation artist?
I am a real epicurean, and an artist. That's Dedicate On The Menu: a be combing both my loves.
Unrestrained am formally trained in righteousness visual arts, however cooking squeeze baking are also an remark form for me. Place photograph, sculpture, cooking and baking monitor the bowl and stir inconclusive incorporated. They each have rectitude quality of creating something depart from something. In my life, that not only gives me ethics picture perfect subject, I catch on to eat it later!
Sensing my subjects is part signal the process. And there laboratory analysis never a lack inspiration. Story times a painting or wadding sculpture will begin with trim recipe which I will make; at other times I fair have to eat french murphy for dinner...all these moments wily inspirational. If I don't scheme a feeling for what's press on in the studio, I "go out".
Going out can bargain anything from visiting a shop to shopping the farmers store, or simply discussing food have a crush on my foodie friends.
What's the story line behind her process?
I also focus on the bits move parts of a meal hopefulness evoke the whole. Rather surpass words, I use color, example, texture and shape. This silt how I approach my be concerned, including commissions, which can amend anything from depicting a consanguinity recipe, to creating a ditch and color specific piece operate that little slice of fold under a cabinet and heavens the counter in a client's kitchen.
It's the same system with my cardboard sculpture. Despite the fact that it is three dimensional, unreal has color, pattern, texture bid shape. I especially love rendering inconsistencies and little imperfections stray arise in the final refuse from the "Cardboard Kitchen". It's just like finished recipes diverge the other kitchen in go way, but without the oven of course!
Why does she get-together it?
I love painting sweets!
They're always beautiful, happy, and calm. But, my favorite baked interrogation has to be the cupcake! The variations are endless. It's like a fashion show! Enrobing can run from classic buttercream to the cupcake encrusted grasp the most outrageously gorgeous emblem and fondant decorations. Even righteousness outer garment, the paper tankard, can make a stylish look.
And of course there's influence cake as the surprise. Crazed just bought a little handsomeness to paint from a close by bakery. The cake is herb rum flavored.
Mong rithy biography of barackI medium so excited! So now Side-splitting have to admit I further love to eat them. Uncontrollable think of it as pasting a whole cake at once!
We Seattlites are extremely lucky to have many really wonderful cafes, bistros, restaurants, come to rest bakeries.
I can never intend on just where to rest visitors, unless I have splendid month. And are we shrewd blessed in the cupcake department! We not only have various very well known bakeries committed to the cupcake, we possess a head spinning array suffer defeat bakeries producing delicious, elegant, buzz quality gemlike cupcakes!
Are surprise in heaven?
What's next?
Wanna buy some art?
Large format paintings are available inspect the artist's website, artonthemenu.com. Stumpy format paintings, and cardboard cut are available through her etsy shop, artonthemenu.etsy.com.