Paintings of Cakes ( 2.0 )

This one even features a Betsey Johnson dress.

By Kiersten Essenpreis.

Going Away Cake and Haircut

I keep wanting to call this a birthday cake, but it was for my going away party. Anyways, it was a delicious vegan coconut lime cake with a sweet lime buttercream icing. My mom iced the cake beautifully and we tinted the piped icing green by adding a tiny bit of matcha powder. Organic food coloring!

Then also I got my hair cut and that pastel plaid button-up and that blazer. Hurrah.

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!