Painting cakes.

This semester has felt so busy that I haven't gotten around to posting much anymore. Never fear though, in just a few short days I'll have so much free time and I've got a lot of ideas to bring my dear old blog back to life...again.

As of late I've been working on this:

What? An arbitrary assortment of pretty things? For what reason????

I set up a still life for my final project in my color class. I was thinking about what I wanted to work on, and while all my classmates were discussing landscapes and self-portraits and vanitas style paintings, all I could think was that I kind of really wanted to just paint a cake. So paint a cake I did.

Mostly I wanted to paint a cake because I wanted to bake a cake (typical) and have an excuse to decorate one real fancy. I love how it turned out, but I'm sad to admit that it probably tastes horrible because it was made with two boxes of Betty Crocker cake mix and three cans of Pillsbury icing. I figured it probably didn't need to taste good because it was going to sit in my fridge for 2 1/2 weeks while I worked on the painting.

I finished the painting this morning and I've kind of gotten really excited about painting food. I think I'm going to cut into it this weekend and see if I can't paint that too. Homemade Christmas presents abound! Also, I've found a great use for desserts that don't turn out well--as still life pieces! I made a pumpkin pie last night that tasted no good. So i think I'll paint it instead of eat it.