Paintings of Cakes ( 2.0 )

This one even features a Betsey Johnson dress.

By Kiersten Essenpreis.

Paintings of Cakes

Like I've said before, I am all about taking about crafts and hobbies.

Last night I spent three hours sewing a laptop / tote bag out of material that formerly acted as a tapestry in my studio apartment (read: dorm).

Photos of it later I'm sure.


Anyways, Ms. Sedaris has inspired me to make fake cakes but until I buy the supplies, I've decided to paint cakes instead.

While searching for "paintings of cakes" on Google I came across the famous artist Wayne Thiebaud. He painted really delicious looking still-lives. ALSO, a photographer named Sharon Core meticulously setup the still-lives in real life and took photos of them. They're practically identical.

Compare and contrast (the top is the painting, the bottom is the photograph):



There was also a fun painting of a little girl wearing a Betsey Johnson dress lazing amongst cakes that I saw in the back of Paper magazine, but alas, I cannot find it online.

Boo.

Enjoy!

On Sarah Maple

Gosh I love self-portraits.

There seems to be this giant wave of Muslim women artwork.

I have to say that I am really liking it.

This self-portrait is by Sarah Maple.

She's young, British, and Muslim.

She also has a neat style and is cute (obviously this doesn't give her artistic merit, but hey, it's an added bonus, eh?).

Aesthetics!

http://www.sarahmaple.com/

Enjoy.

Me and Barry McGee

Flipping through the pages of a magazine the other night, I stumbled upon the artist Barry McGee.

I'm a big fan of geometric shapes in aesthetically pleasing colors so naturally I oozed with delight at the pages upon pages of the stuff.

He does more than just shapes, including portraits and the very popular 'street art'.

Now we shouldn't get into a debate about what art is and what art isn't since I do not claim this to be art. I do however claim it to be very nice to look at!

And that's why, I painted some of my own on canvas today.

The wonderful thing about modern art is that 95% of it can be duplicated!

See also my take on Warholian portraiture during my senior year of high school:
Lovely!