I was in the mood for something fun and colorful, so I bought some M&Ms to paint a still life. I debated painting the candy dish in various crops, but finally decided it would be more fun to do a really close crop of just the candy.
When you aren’t used to eating a lot of sugar, M&Ms are unbelievably sweet! I was amazed at how quickly I went from being nauseous to addicted. I had so much fun painting this, but found it is difficult to paint candy without wanting to eat it. Now I need to paint something healthy to get over my sugar high.
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M&Ms
5” x 5”
Soft Pastel on La Carte
13 comments:
The green ones used to be my favorites, then the stinkers went and made some that beautiful shade of blue. What I find nice about the M&M is that you can just have a little sweet when you need some. Your painting will send any M&M fan into ecstasy!
Looks good enough to eat, but I imagine not easy to paint. Great job.
I love this piece...yum!
Thanks, Claire - aren't those blues fabulous?
Thanks, Lokelani - It was totally fun to paint! I had to do another one, which I'll post soon. The second one was easier, as I had learned from the first.
Thanks, Dana! :)
Happy to have found your blog! Love your realism! very attractive images here, I will be back!
Hi Kari! I've passed along the Sunshine Blogger award to you that I received from Lisa Riehl. I rarely take the time to do these things, but it has been quite a while since I told my fellow artists how much joy & inspiration they bring me. Congrats, you can visit my site to retrieve it!
Thank you, Sandra, I'm glad you like my work! Thanks for stopping by and commenting. :)
Thanks, Pat, that's really sweet of you. I'll stop by your blog soon.
Love this close up view. Great colors and shadows! Looks like it took a lot of patience to paint. Great job!
Thanks, Gwen!
You are in the EBSQ Friday Five!
http://blog.ebsqart.com/2010/02/19/ebsq-friday-five-does-candy/
Hey, cool! Thanks Amanda! :)
I just have to chime in and say, I absolutely adore both your M&M pieces. Beautiful, and so bright!
Thanks, Aimee!
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