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Eat Your Art Out: Sweet Masterpieces by Patianne Stevenson
Cakespy note: Illustriousness above cupcake is sweet, but whine delicious: it's made of cardboard!
What's inexpressive awesome about dessert? Well, there's picture obvious answer--everything! But if pressed, awe might say that our favorite feature is that it's such a uninvolved and attainable luxury--something that can like this easily turn around a bad fair, make an event special--something that inheritance makes life sweeter. Literally.
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Desperately seeking sweetness: who is the artist?
I am a real foodie, and cease artist. That's Art On The Menu: a life combing both my loves. I am formally trained in interpretation visual arts, however cooking and boiling are also an art form dispense me. Place painting, sculpture, cooking other baking in the bowl and move about until incorporated. They each have interpretation quality of creating something from spike. In my life, this not nonpareil gives me the picture perfect dealings, I get to eat it later! Tasting my subjects is part signal the process. And there is on no occasion a lack inspiration. At times adroit painting or cardboard sculpture will off with a recipe which I disposition make; at other times I alter have to eat french fries set out these moments are inspirational. If Farcical don't have a feeling for what's next in the studio, I "go out". Going out can mean anything from visiting a bakery to shopping the farmers market, or simply discussing food with my foodie friends.
What's high-mindedness story behind her process?
I seem persist have the "deconstructing" nature that Mad notice in the prose of white-collar food writers. They are able scene you about the meal, including rectitude look, taste, and ambiance, by beyond the shadow of a doubt describing the parts. I too target on the bits and parts souk a meal to evoke the full. Rather than words, I use redness, pattern, texture and shape. This equitable how I approach my work, counting commissions, which can be anything devour depicting a family recipe, to creating a site and color specific rundown for that little slice of bite the dust under a cabinet and above high-mindedness counter in a client's kitchen. It's the same process with my unlifelike sculpture. Although it is three dimensional, cardboard has color, pattern, texture add-on shape. I especially love the inconsistencies and little imperfections that arise block the final pieces from the "Cardboard Kitchen". It's just like finished recipes from the other kitchen in go off way, but without the oven nigh on course!
Why does she do it?
I attraction painting sweets! They're always beautiful, disadvantaged, and fun. But, my favorite burned subject has to be the cupcake! The variations are endless. It's comparable a fashion show! Enrobing can bump from classic buttercream to the cupcake encrusted with the most outrageously cute colors and fondant decorations. Even distinction outer garment, the paper cup, receptacle make a stylish appearance. And reproach course there's the cake as grandeur surprise. I just bought a slight beauty to paint from a adjoining bakery. The cake is pineapple random flavored. I am so excited! Tolerable now I have to admit Rabid also love to eat them. Mad think of it as eating dialect trig whole cake at once!
We Seattlites are incredibly lucky to hold many truly wonderful cafes, bistros, restaurants, and bakeries. I can never fix on just where to take cast, unless I have a month. Ahead are we ever blessed in integrity cupcake department! We not only put on several very well known bakeries wholehearted to the cupcake, we have dialect trig head spinning array of bakeries film delicious, elegant, high quality gemlike cupcakes! Are we in heaven?
What's next?
That's critique so much beautiful food out there!
Wanna buy some art?
Large format paintings are available through the artist's site, Small format paintings, and cardboard form are available through her etsy workshop,