Tag: food art friday

Amazing Fruit and Vegetable Carvings by Shawn Feeney

Big Eater, Winter melon carving by Shawn Feeney

Over the next few weeks, families will be heading to the nearest pumpkin patch, looking for the perfect large orange gourd to carve triangle eyes into. And somewhere, artist Shawn Feeney laughs. Using mostly root vegetables, gourds, and melons — which tend to have the best alternating textures and colors — Feeney gives these foods a personality, and creates incredibly lifelike and morbidly cute characters.

Of course, Feeney started to explore this talent with pumpkin carvings. Even using his mad skills to win the Food Network miniseries, Halloween Wars in 2011. Feeney also offers his services to teach fruit and vegetable carvings, and even takes on custom projects. Perhaps you can get him to help make your jack-o’-lanterns the coolest on the block.

Charlie, acorn squash carving by Shawn Feeney
Simi, rutabaga carving by Shawn Feeney
Avocadess, avocado carving by Shawn Feeney
St. Nickomelon, watermelon carving by Shawn Feeney

[link, via Huffington Post]

Tea Illustrations by Andrew Gorkovenko

Using nothing more than loose tea and extreme patience, artist Andrew Gorkovenko created beautiful landscape scenes for Triptea. Made specifically to be included on the tea company’s packaging — the scenes actually depict the origin of the tea contained within.

[link, via Colossal]

Animal Sculptures Made From Reclaimed Kitchen Utensils and Other Household Items

Japanese Shinto beliefs are such that all objects and organisms have spirits — even those that we perceive as “trash.” Artist Sayaka Ganz uses these beliefs that she was taught at a young age to create beautiful animal sculptures.

Ganz reclaims forgotten plastic objects — such as spatulas, serving spoons, and pasta servers. And, by using them to create sculptures that appear in motion, she helps perpetuate the concept of these items having life.

“I only select objects that have been used and discarded. My goal is for each object to transcend its origin by being integrated into an animal/ organic forms that are alive and in motion. This process of reclamation and regeneration is liberating to me as an artist.”

[artist’s site, via Colossal]

Eat Me: Appetite For Design

The original intent of Food Art Friday was to try to showcase one artist working in a specific medium. However, if we were to find an aggregation of the best food art over the past few years, packaged as a giant sugar wafer — we’d be willing to make an exception.

Eat Me: Appetite For Design, designed by viction:ary, is a celebration of food as an art medium. Whether it’s packaging design, branding, or interiors — Eat Me supplies sweet layers of the best food-inspired art available. Eat Me: Appetite For Design is currently available at Amazon.

Eating is no longer a pure experience of smell and taste but rather an effective agency to communicate and engage, an indication of cultural values, lifestyle, artisanship, criticism, aspirations and imagination this present day.

[buy one here, via The Dieline]

Kitschy Kitchen Illustrations and Prints by Heather Perry

An Ode To Sriracha by Heather Perry

From an ode to the greatest of condiments, to an instructional poster on how to drink tea properly — Heather Perry of Drunk Girl Designs puts a modern spin on the traditional kitchen print. Best described as “kitschy,” Perry’s posters and tea towels show mad respect for kitchen ephemera — while simultaneously poking a little fun at it.

Perry also contributes to the trend of visual recipes, with a kitchen print for oatmeal cookies, banana bread, deviled eggs and more.

Rock Out With Your Crock Out by Heather Perry
Oatmeal Cookies by Heather Perry

See more over at Drunk Girl Designs’ Etsy store.