Meet the artist Wayne Thiebaud! Even if you don't recognize his name, I bet you have seen his paintings!
Wayne Thiebaud is an American Painter who was turned down by gallery after gallery up and down the Arts District in New York. He did not gain success until one gallery finally decided to take a chance on his unusually yummy paintings.
Inspired by frosted cakes in a bakery, he decided to paint this delicious subject. It is hard to tell by this photograph, but the paint is so thickly applied to his paintings it actually looks like real frosting on a cake.
With his non-traditional yet yummy subject matter, Wayne was considered one of the major contributors in the Pop Art movement. His success is a lesson in resiliency. He was turned down over and over, but he never gave up and finally made it big as an artist! In fact, one of the galleries that turned him down spent a small fortune to purchase one of the paintings from his first show!
This year our Wayne Thiebaud inspired artworks were created in sculpture form. Students started with a cardboard base which was covered with plaster casting strips. Modeling paste was "frosted" onto the cakes which were then decorated with tempera and acrylic paints and model magic clay. Students were really creative with crayon shavings for "chocolate" flakes, soap shavings as "coconut, and straw as candles, just to name a few.
Below are a few of our finished products. Please visit the TTE Library to see all of our fantastically yummy creations!
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