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When painting a portrait of Anthony Kiedis, lead singer of The Red Hot Chili Peppers, it’s important to choose the appropriate medium.
So, if you’re an artist such as Nathan Wyburn, who specializes in celebrity food portraits, you go with the obvious choice of using chili sauce. Check out the process if you have one hot minute.
[via Fubiz]
Whether it’s with coffee, chopsticks, or lunch… artist Red Hong Yi is very good at creating art with whatever’s available. This time, the Malaysian artist wanted to create a large-scale piece that would pay tribute to her homeland and the process of making the Malaysian sweet tea, Teh Tarik.
This time, Red’s medium of choice was about 20,000 tea bags, steeped to create varying shades of color and tone. The used tea bags were then placed together into panels, and then hung to form the picture of a vendor pulling tea.
Be sure to check out the video below too… Red’s creative process is pure awesome. Her tea-pouring skills… not so much.
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Red Hong Yi, of 31 Days of Creativity and coffee portrait fame, is back with one of the most creative celebrity portraits ever.
Using not only 64,000 chopsticks, but 64,000 bundled and hanging chopsticks, to create the likeness of Jackie Chan. The project was made to help celebrate the actor/martial artist’s 60th birthday.
Check out the video below, as watching the work-in-progress is pretty awesome.
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Isn’t it great when long-haired iconoclasts appear on food? Music legend Willie Nelson recently showed up on 352 slices of toast, thanks to Honey Thompson, a team leader at Whole Foods. The portrait was created to help promote the launch of Dark Rye, the store’s new online magazine, and is on display at SXSW in Austin, TX.
[via Laughing Squid]
Brought to us by Mexican design studio Golpeavisa, is a portrait of Danish chef René Redzepi. The portrait, created for the August cover of Clase Premier magazine, consists of placed objects on a dinner table, and depicts Redzepi in stoic fashion.
And, if you’re wondering how you get immortalized as a table setting — Redzepi’s restaurant, Noma, has repeatedly been named the best restaurant in the world. That’s how.
[link, via designboom]