I LOVED my time as Artist in Residence at Scotch Oakburn College in Launceston, TAS. I showed the students my practice of baking cakes from the Women's Weekly Birthday Cake Book, photographing them, and painting them.
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Everyone deserves their moment in the spotlight ✨
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A woman with dark hair crouching down to work on the bottom of two large paintings. The paintings each depict one half of a Peters twin pole ice block. The left half is while and the right is blue.
Two halves of a twin pole ice block from 2023 🍦
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A photorealistic painting of a cake decorated to look like a duck. The cake is shaped like a rubber duck and covered in yellow frosting. It has ruffle potato chips for a beak and its head is covered in popcorn. There is a red ribbon on its neck and chocolate buttons down the front.
Detail of the painting showing the face of the duck. There are eyes made of liquorice strings in a circle with orange smarties in the centre.
Detail of the painting showing the fluffy yellow frosting texture on the back of the duck cake.
Detail of the painting showing the satin fabric texture on the red bow that adorns the duck cake.
Probably my favourite cake from the Australian Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake Book; the iconic duck cake. In the process of making this painting I also made the cake to use as a reference. I was thoroughly delighted and frustrated by how difficult it was to make.
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A model of a house viewed close up. The house has chocolate wafer biscuits as roof tiles and windows. The walls of the house are made from striped sour strap lollies. The house is partially out of frame and surrounded by pink fairy floss.
This never really turned into anything I wanted to paint but I thought the photo was cool so I’ll share it anyway.
This is a model of my house made from lollies and biscuits in a fairy floss cloud.
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Slowly seeing fellow artists from Lutruwita turning up here, so here's a starter pack I'll start adding them to. I'm sure more of you are out there so lmk and I'll add you! ☺️
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A photorealistic oil painting of a shiny blue dinosaur hangs on a wall painted in bright colours. The dinosaur balloon is viewed side-on and centered on a black background.
Instead of reading more news I'm going to look back on this painting I did of a balloon dinosaur. I invite you to do the same.
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Realistic oil painting of a cake decorated like a zoo. It features green-dyed coconut flakes as grass, plastic zoo animals, plastic palm trees, and a pond made from blue jelly. The border of the cake is made of chocolate coated finger cookies. The cake is painted centred on a black background.
Close up of a realistic oil painting of a cake decorated like a zoo. It features green-dyed coconut flakes as grass, plastic zoo animals, plastic palm trees, and a pond made from blue jelly. The border of the cake is made of chocolate coated finger cookies. The cake is painted centred on a black background. The close up centres on a plastic toy penguin, panda, and seal. There is a Cadbury flake chocolate bar serving as a log next to the jelly pond.
Close up of a realistic oil painting of a cake decorated like a zoo. It features green-dyed coconut flakes as grass, plastic zoo animals, plastic palm trees, and a pond made from blue jelly. The border of the cake is made of chocolate coated finger cookies. The cake is painted centred on a black background. The close up features a plastic toy tiger and chocolate rocks.
A partially eaten cake decorated to look like a zoo sits on a countertop. The cake has one quarter cut out of it and blue jelly is spilling out from the middle. A knife rests on the plate beside the cake.
Full image and details from my last painting “Zoo Cake” oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches. The last image is of the actual cake I made after it was partially eaten by friends. I have to say, blue jelly and chocolate cake is a weird flavour combo.
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Another Women's Weekly cake painting on its way out the door. This one was the iconic dolly varden cake which had to be one of the most popular cakes for Aussie kids growing up in the 80's and 90's.
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I'm more than a little obsessed with the Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book. Working on my painting of the zoo cake was such a joy. And with Cadbury flake chocolate bars as logs it was also delicious.
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