kitchen art
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an unconventional cookbook artist book
Followers of my artwork already know that I like to play with the book format. Does a book always have to be bound on one edge? I don’t think so. It also doesn’t have to be conventional-book-shaped. With this in mind I’m working with Chef Kim Mahan (www.class-cooking.com) to create an unconventional cookbook titled “Kim…
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kitchen music and sustainable creativity
I strongly believe in taking care of oneself as a way of sustaining creativity. Keeping a go-to list of “things that feed your soul” and regularly using it can help maintain ones artistic battery. One item on my list, well okay two items, is cooking food and listening to music. So I also strongly believe that music…
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kitchen tales and non-traditional notions
I’m playfully experimenting again. I’m combining several things: my thought that knowing how to cook is an essential artist survival skill, my not-so-secret desire to illustrate a cookbook and the fact that I’ve been asked to do my fine artwork (dogs and food!) as prints for sometimes messy home kitchens. So I’m collecting my kitchen art efforts together and publishing…
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Bear salad and artistic kitchens
In my last post I mentioned a new project I’m working on – “Bear Salad”. Well, in general my new project is a series of art-prints art-illustrations related to the kitchen. The evolution-tree of this new project goes like this: When I was in art school I learned from some of my older-wiser fellow art majors how vital being…
