Beginning
This project consists into creating American cupcakes which are cakes decorated with diffrents creams to act as a visual and atracttive caracteristic in a desirable and appetising manner.
At first I was interested in this visual aesthetic, a hint of childhood nostalgia.
The application of the paint influences and configures the picture of a cupcake to meet the needs of the observer and attract their attention.
Creating my firts proofs, my interest shifted and I decided to focus on creating colours to shape the paiting.
The process of mixing colours was unconsciously organizing a distribution of paints on a palette, which allowed me to descover an interest and see the further possibilities for this project.
During work process there were various stages and phases, which helps me to dined the project.
Part 1
Acrylic and oil palettes, and their process to create and mix colours.
First and second stage of the process. Analysis and creation of the palette while figuratinely bakes a cupcake
The personal way in which a painter or anybody hands out the colours in a palette to create a plastic picture of a cupcake.
The fact to mix colours like when ingredients are mixed on a plate.
Each painting palette ended up different dependent on which part of the cupcake I was paiting.
Part 2
Cupcakes without colour, plaster of paris.
These pieces show the need to go back to the shape, to forget colours and to mould. To touch or to bake the symbolic batter of cupcakes.
Part 3
Mixing...
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