It's Tasty Being Green

"Thank You, Thank You!" my latest piece, is for Look At This, Look At That: A Tribute to Dr. Seuss opening March 3rd at Gallery Nucleus.

Hopefully everyone isn't too burnt out on seeing another artist interpret "Green Eggs and Ham". But after reading through over a dozen of his books, I just kept coming back to that story and couldn't resist taking a stab at it.

I've been enamored with chickens since childhood, both their looks and taste, and thoroughly enjoyed painting feathers again. I also thought the analogous palette was going to be tough, but I enjoyed using that as well.

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Enjoy!

Please, No S'more!

I apologize for my lack of new work. I honestly thought I'd be pumping out painting after painting this year, but we've been (thankfully) very busy with our animation/ink and paint company. I did find a bit of time for some doodling...

And although I love the Marshy on the right with the cherry on his head, I just couldn't help laughing everytime I saw the Marshy with the chocolate chip on his butt. So I present, "No S'more"

Enjoy!

Sweet!

My cutest friend passed along this pic to me as she knows I am a fan of both cake and Katamari.

It was featured on Musthavecute.com which is part of the I Can Has Cheezburger? family of sites. I'm perplexed that there wasn't any further info on who the amazing baker/artist was that crafted this beauty, but glad nonetheless to have it in my brain now.

Q-pot Island Is Awesome

A friend of mine shared this site with me and before I could even ask her where she found it, I was all over it. It's called Q-pot Island and is a line of Japanese accessory shops. This Strawberry Milk Melt ring immediately caught my eye:

As well as this meticulous Rose Cupcake ring:

And this is just the ring portion! They've got necklaces, charm bracelets and such beautifully detailed trinkets as this Choco Biscuit Strap:

And last but not least, the Caviar Ring:

 

They have an English version of the site, but the online shop is only in Japanese and only ships within Japan. There are three places to get their wares in the states, Ala Moana Center in Hawaii has the largest selection, as well as the MoMA Design Store and Takashimaya in New York City (although limited items).

Either way there seems to be more than enough eye candy to keep me busy for days to come. :D

Spaghetti

I'm working on a new painting that will involve spaghetti. My initial search through Google Images included the following that I thought neccessary to share with all of you.

1. Spaghetti Worm. This little beauty has been removed from his tubular home so you can see how delicious - I mean, awesome, he is! He's a California native, living in Newport's Back Bay

2. Spaghetti Squash Fritters courtesy of Janet Is Hungry. Sure I found lots and lots of delicious pics of spaghetti but this golden nugget of goodness jumped right out at me. Janet has lots and lots of great food pics and recipes to go with them. First page she's got a killer recipe (with pics to match) for a Banana, Peanut Butter, Cinnamon Muffin. Mmmmm...Kristin's hungry too :D

3. Spaghetti and Cheese Ice Cream made by Heladeria Coromoto, a Venezualan restaurant (which has over 800 flavors of ice cream!!!), via Turkey Hill Ice Cream Journal. Reminds me of Ice Cream City in Tokyo where Ed and I sampled Honey, Azuki Bean, Chestnut, Snake and Squid ice creams.

4. Chmurka the Hamster loves spaghetti. Via Flickr

Cupcake Heaven

I have the unpleasant task of creating an illustration for Tattoo Flash Magazine involving cupcakes. I am totally kidding. About the 'unpleasant' nature not the illustration. So I went to Google image search and up pops this:

Brilliance and deliciousness all rolled into a tasty hand-held package. These wonderful creations are done by Hello Naomi. She makes cakes, cupcakes and cookies and each one looks better than the next.

Peruse her site and partake of her sweet goodness :D

Beautiful Tea

Some wonderful friends of ours came over this weekend and brought some tea from Tea Forte. It was the most beautifully packaged item I've seen since Vosges chocolate. The tea bags themselves are little works of art and after looking at their site they also have wonderful accessories to complement that design. Their Cafe Cup was just one of those accessories.

Start your morning beautifully, enjoy!

I am Bacon. Hear Me Roar.

My love of food is no secret. All my memories involve food in one way or another and everything that I want to do now involves food as well. It's all around me and in me and I paint it and I love it!

So finding the blog foodzie was just the thing to spur me into creating this post instead of going back to my nap. Trouble is it's only 4 pm and I don't have any of these great items in my house. I shall simply drool over the photos and dream of maple and bacon and crispy, salty, sweet snacks like this Bacon Peanut Brittle:

I mean, Esquire and the New York Times gave this great reviews. What more do you want? Go buy some. And then come back so we can talk about it ;-)

Twinkie Chan

is one of the most adorable things on this planet Earth. I've seen her work all over the place and finally decided that I needed to profess my love of all things Twinkie-Chan! Not only is she herself a cutie pie but she makes such amazingly cute things I can hardly stand it. Oh and everything is food themed. Yay, yay and yay again!

This is her modeling the radish scarf that is currently up for sale in her Etsy shop. Visit all her sites and you'll see what I'm talking about.

http://www.twinkiechan.com Her main site with everything she's doing and has done or will do :D

http://ieatyuckystuff.blogspot.com/ her blog about all the wild, wacky things she eats complete with adorable pics