Paintings So Good You Want to Eat Them
As a young artist Wayne Thiebaud drew an easy parallel between cake frosting and oil paint. So he began to paint pastries, the body of work for which he’s most famous. Here’s a short and sweet video that CBS Sunday Morning did on him a couple years ago. And, here’s a link to a current retrospective of his work at the San Jose Museum of Art, Seventy Years of Painting. Wayne Thiebaud is a great example of not being afraid to paint what’s around you. He reminds us that our subject matter may not always be as important as how you execute it.
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