As promised, I will introduce each of my paintings to the blog world over the next few weeks. Today I would like to make the grand introduction of my art class paintings with one of my favorites.
Ice Cream
The assignment was to paint our favorite food, and the rules were: no paint brushes, and no black paint. Within a millisecond I knew what my favorite food was. That delicious goodness that tastes like happiness and lasts about as long as a shooting-star.
My mouth salivated as I reminisced on the sweet, sugary goodness of ice, cream and milk poured over a wonderful flavor and scooped out delicately into the container of your choice. (Personally I prefer a cup, but that's no fun to imagine.)
But what flavor will I do!? I thought of all my favorites--strawberry shortcake, chocolate chip cookie dough, my Braum's favorite: a chocolate Reese's Mix with whipped cream. Then their was my McDonald's favorite, the Rolo Mcflurry, and Sooner Rocks frozen yogurt..which got me thinking about Orange Leaf creations and Passion Berry..and well, now I'm getting off subject aren't I?
After much thought I decided on my two favorite BlueBell scoops: Red Velvet Cake and Birthday Cake; a double scoop, in a waffle cone. And that's what I painted, without a brush or black paint.
The lack of a brush actually improved the painting I thought. Using paint straight from the tubes and a palette knife for spreading, the ultimate effect of this piece is major texture. I also had a lot of fun using the drip technique. The idea is to water down the paint until it just drips all over the place. There were several points during this process where I found myself standing in a pink puddle of watery paint! It was pleasing though, because it was just like working with real ice cream.
I paint-glued strips of newspaper into the background for an added stickiness effect. You know when you're licking away on a cone and find yourself sticking to napkins, papers, coupons, etc. trying to find something to wipe your hands with. Maybe that's just me because I'm messy, but kids do it too I swear!
After my professor and I determined the newspaper to be a good thing, I decided to create a 3-D effect and ball up tons of newspaper as even more texture to the ice cream itself. This brought the treat forward and sent the cone back.
Speaking of the cone, it was outlined with masking tape, painted over and then the masking tape was removed to reveal a white outline. My signature in the bottom right corner was created the same way. Criss-cross patterns and scratching were contributed to the texturing of the cone as well.
The finished paintings were displayed at the University of Oklahoma Art College's Annual Chili-Day Fundraiser.
To see my Etsy listing of this painting, follow this link: https://www.etsy.com/listing/172000177/ice-cream-painting-on-canvas-oil
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