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Food Used To Finish Beautiful Pencil Illustrations by Diego Cusano

August 19, 2016 by Chris Durso 1 Comment

Italian artist, songwriter, and “fantasy researcher,” Diego Cusano, knows how to finish his art deliciously. Diego begins with beautiful pencil illustrations of pop culture characters, animals, and everyday objects — finishing the pieces with various food items.

The addition of edibles, besides a creative use of mixed medium, becomes the drawing’s only introduction of color. This juxtaposition of colored food and black and white illustration then gives the drawings two distinct parts, while also bringing everything together to complete a whole.

The use of food also adds an ephemeral quality, by giving the art a shelf life. Thankfully, Diego’s art lives on in photos, and in a book of his work, Food Art and Fantasy.

See more of Diego Cusano’s work over on Instagram, and visit his Etsy shop where prints of his work are available.

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Inedible Recipes, A Cookbook of Delicious Food Art

January 31, 2014 by Chris Durso Leave a Comment

Cookbooks… They’re always filled with such delicious recipes, you know, the kind you can actually eat. But what if there was a book that contained recipes of deliciously inedible food?

Inedible Recipes, by artist Crystal Smith, explores the concept of filling a cookbook with food no longer fit for consumption. The series of food art, which uses various forms of media added to food, could be described as an artbook, photobook and cookbook all in one — as Smith does in fact supply the “recipes” for each piece.

Inedible Recipes is currently an Indiegogo project. You can visit Crystal’s page and help this project become a reality here.

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Portraits Painted With Coffee on Antique Ledger Paper

August 9, 2013 by Chris Durso Leave a Comment

Coffee, besides helping us feel less rage in the morning, has become a great art medium. Now, artist Michael Aaron Williams has taken coffee art a bit further by going old-school — with a series of portraits painted on ledger paper that dates back to the 1920s and 30s.

The weathered paper adds the perfect backdrop to the brown, amber and copper hues of the coffee, while Williams’ partial portraits complete the antique feel. See more of Williams’ work at his Facebook page.

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Sandwich Monsters

May 17, 2013 by Chris Durso Leave a Comment

Play with your food much? Probably not as much, or as well, as artist Kaisa Haupt does. Sandwich Monsters is a fun collection of cute and edible creatures made from sandwiches and other sandwich material. Check out more of the project here.

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48871061237 — Punxsutawney Phil’ly Cheeseteak

26286769563 — Unidenti’fried Flying Obj-egg

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Photo Series of Food Cut in Half

May 10, 2013 by Chris Durso 2 Comments

We love you, food. But we’re so busy consuming you, that we never take the time to see what’s on the inside. Cut Food, a photo series by New York-based photographer Beth Galton, explores the innards of our meals by deliberately cutting them down the middle.

From split ramen to a bisected corn dog, the series remains visually stunning while perhaps providing a little too much information. See more here.