DIY food paintings. Delicious paintings by Australian photographer Carl Warner

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What modern canvases are not created from. They use not only paints, leaves, paper, but even coffee beans, pasta, and cereals. Craftsmen do beautiful paintings from eggshells in such a way that not everyone will understand what such a work of art is created from. The main thing is to prepare the materials correctly, and then you can start creating.

DIY cereal paintings

Yes, such colorful relief paintings are created from ordinary cereals. You can use any, but most often such canvases are created from:

lentils;
rice;
millet;
buckwheat

But first you need to prepare the cereal. To do this, it is sorted to remove impurities. If it is “clean”, then you don’t have to do this, but immediately proceed to the second stage. If your panel will use a color unusual for grain, it will need to be painted. To do this, take light grains, for example, rice. It is placed in a technical vessel, gouache or acrylic paint, mix thoroughly. Then pour it onto paper in one layer. Allow to dry and use for creativity.

If you are creating crafts from cereals, then during the process of coloring the grains, do not pour water into it or, if necessary, add very little. Then during drying, make sure that the grains do not stick together. To do this, sometimes mix them with your hand or a dry spoon.

But not all grain paintings require grain coloring. Yes, you can use White rice or semolina, brown buckwheat, yellow millet. In addition, you can take other bulk materials available in the kitchen: seeds, peas, pasta.

For a grain painting, you will need a photo frame with a backing. You can buy an inexpensive one that has plastic film on top instead of glass.

Beautiful children's pictures

If you and your child want to make a panel like this, then start with drawing future painting. To do this, use a simple pencil. Try not to press it too hard so that finished work the lines of the stylus were not visible.

To do this, first stick a sheet of paper onto the backing. IN in this case use pink and then create graphic basis future composition.

If the child can draw a picture himself, then let him do it. In the meantime, prepare your materials.

It is better to pour each type of cereal into a separate bowl or deep plate. Then the colors won't get mixed up, and main material for paintings will not be scattered on the floor.

Start filling the canvas with a small fragment. It's better if they are closed. Cover the fragment, in this case one flower, with a brush dipped in PVA glue, sprinkle it with grain of the desired color. You can add contrast to the details by gluing dry tea between the grains of yellow millet or directly on them.

The top of the second flower consists of buckwheat, middle part and the bottom is also made of millet. Tell your child that the stem of a plant will look good if you stick halves of dry peas on it. You can coat each large element with PVA and glue it, while for attaching small grains it is more convenient to apply glue to the base.

It is also better to glue the bean grains framing the vase one at a time, applying PVA to each one. Inside the vase you can place pasta, which also looks beautiful, and you will soon see this once again. Frame the picture and hang it on the wall.

Making pasta panels

Continuing the theme of paintings from bulk products available in the kitchen, we can tell you how to make such a wonderful canvas.

For it you will need:

frame with durable plywood or cardboard base;
PVA glue;
semolina, buckwheat;
peas;
pasta in the shape of a spiral, horns, tubes, round;
sponge.

Draw with a pencil one large and 2 small trees, a wavy path, and a mill. Start decorating with the background. Cover it with PVA, sprinkle semolina in a thick layer so that it covers the entire desired part of the picture of pasta and cereals. Avoid getting it on other elements of the panel, but if a few small grains stick to them, it’s okay. Lightly press the semolina with a sponge for better contact with the canvas.

Now lubricate the tree trunk with PVA and glue buckwheat to it. Attach the pasta to the top using glue as shown in the photo. Decorate 2 small trees in the same way.

The mill blades are made of pasta tubes, and the building itself is made of dry pea halves. Create a path from spirals, then let the original creation dry. While this is happening, others can be created. interesting works art, using egg waste for them.

Shell mosaic

Don't be surprised when you find out what this beautiful mosaic work is made of. Crushed eggshells were an excellent material for such a magnificent painting.

For shell mosaics, in addition to it, you need:

a sheet of thick cardboard;
PVA glue;
a small wooden stick to press the shells (a sushi stick or a manicure stick will do);
tweezers;
acrylic paints;

We start making mosaics with our own hands by preparing the material.

Egg shells need to be washed in warm water, remove the inner film from it and dry it. Professionals use just this one, since the cooked one has a looser surface, while the raw one has a harder surface.

But you can take, for example, a colored shell left over from painted easter eggs and boiled from simple ones.

First, a sketch of the future mosaic is drawn on cardboard. You can glue a picture from a children's coloring book onto it and create a panel directly on this basis. If the shell is large, press it with your hands to get smaller fragments. If it is dark and light or colored, pre-sort by color.

You can post it in two ways:

Paint the shell in different colors, lay them out individually, let them dry, then chop them up and start gluing them piece by piece, selecting the desired shades.
Glue the shell, and when it dries, then paint the finished picture.

Choose the option that suits you best.

Now about how to make a mosaic from eggshells. Grease a small area of cardboard with PVA and attach several pieces to it. If you get a big piece, just press on it wooden stick so that the shell cracks and falls apart.

Leave the same distance between the fragments so that the panel is made neatly and looks good.

After the work is completed and the entire canvas is filled with mosaic fragments, let the glue dry completely, then paint the shell if you used an unpainted one. When this layer is dry, coat the surface with varnish.

This is the kind of mosaic you can make with your own hands. There are many options, so choose which one you like best and get started.

You can also use other materials to make your own paintings, such as coffee. It is used to make attractive and delicious-smelling wall panels.

Coffee paintings

From the aromatic grains you can make the frame itself for a future panel or for a photograph or sheet music. Take a ready-made wooden or plastic one. Lubricate the flat side of each grain with glue and attach it close to each other to the edging. For such work, coffee that has expired and would be a shame to throw away is ideal.

But even if the beans are not old, you can sacrifice a few to make a coffee painting. It emits an invigorating aroma and it will be pleasant to be in such a neighborhood. And is it possible to indifferently pass by, for example, such a thing? Not only does it emit an intoxicating aroma, it attracts the eye, first arouses surprise, and then admiration.

And creating such paintings from coffee beans is quite simple. In addition to this basic material, you need to prepare:

a frame with a backing of the required size;
a sheet of soft paper;
twine;
glue;
satin ribbon brown and white.

To make the coffee picture conceal a touch of mystery, remember the paper so that lines appear on it in different directions. Now glue it to the backing. Find the center of the canvas and draw a heart in this place with a pencil. Starting from its outer edge, glue the grains one at a time.

Now draw an ornate pattern around the heart. Gradually apply glue to it with a thin brush or a heat gun and attach the rope.

You can not draw the pattern first, but immediately glue the twine, folding it as needed. Of course, this is only if you have already done similar works, and the hand is “full.”

Start gluing it on the left side, then the bottom left and going up to the top of the picture. Here, twist the excess thread exactly in a spiral, after applying glue to this circle. Place a coffee bean in its center. Glue satin ribbon flowers at the bottom. You will learn how to make them in one of the following articles. Let the coffee painting dry and place it against the wall or hang it on it.

From this fertile material for creativity you can make various crafts with your own hands or with the involvement of children, relatives, and friends. Surely your loved one will be surprised if he wakes up in the morning, goes to the kitchen to drink coffee and discovers that his mug has become so original. If you are thinking about what to give your significant other for Valentine's Day, then this mug with flowers and a heart made of grains will come in very handy.

For a romantic evening, you can decorate candles like this. These coffee crafts will also not go unnoticed.

If you want to know how quickly a coffee painting is made, watch the video. It tells how to use blush to differentiate elements and why it is more beneficial for athletes to smell such paintings than to drink a fragrant but strong drink.

From these videos you will learn how and what other paintings you can make from cereals, coffee and eggshells:

Throughout the history of art, food has always been a source of inspiration for artists, many of whom turned to it as a subject for their still life paintings. And in our time, it has also become material for artistic creativity. Some designers and stylists have begun using products to create unique works called food art. Creativity of the photographer and food stylist Tatyana Shkondina is a clear confirmation of this. She creates amazing copies of food famous paintings classical artists.

A creative person can find inspiration in the most ordinary things. And Tatyana realized that food photography was her calling immediately as soon as she began to engage in this art professionally.

In a new genre contemporary art the photographer has already achieved quite a lot great success and recognition, since her works have long been of interest worldwide well-known companies. Tatyana worked with such brands as Campbell's, Bounduelle, Norge, Valio, Lurpak, Jacobs, Gastronom, etc.

And Tatyana Shkondina carried out a unique creative project, which included a whole series of works, dedicated to works paintings of the great masters of past centuries. The photographer recreated as accurately and originally as possible the paintings of Salvador Dali, Vincent van Gogh, Kazimir Malevich, Andy Warhol and others no less famous painters, using an original approach and the most ordinary products.

In her masterpieces we see blueberries and apples, pieces of watermelon and cheese, pasta and meat, caviar and herbs, coffee beans and much more that can be found in the kitchen of any housewife. By the way, the hobby of the photographer-stylist, who has an education as a radio engineer, began from her own kitchen.

Vincent Van Gogh, Starry Night (1889).

Rene Magritte, "Son of Man"

Katsushika Hokusai, "South Wind, Clear Day." (1832).

Tatyana Shkondina herself comments on her work as follows: "For Hokusai's painting, I chose common Japanese foods: salmon, green tea and rice They are simple but have bright color, taste and texture, like many things in Japan."

Salvador Dali, "The Persistence of Memory." (1931)

"...One of the most complex work became "The Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali: I needed to show volume, but at the same time keep the composition flat."

Wassily Kandinsky, "Several Circles". (1926).

"...My favorite art style- abstract art, I adore the work of Wassily Kandinsky. His masterpiece "Several Circles" became my favorite project. For him, I chose fruits - bright, tasty and slightly transparent."

Andy Warhol, "Dollar Sign"

"...And in Andy Warhol's 'Dollar Sign' there is little joke. Since in Russian the word “cabbage” sometimes means money, I decided to recreate this work using four types of cabbage.”

Vincent Van Gogh, "Sunflowers". (1888).

12.05.2014

Amazing paintings creates edible landscapes from products Carl Warner is an Australian photographer based in London. He creates all this by looking at products in supermarkets for a long time.

Carl Warner, an illustrator by training, a master of the genre, and also its creator, “Foodscapes,” that is, landscapes made of food. His paintings depict mountains of grain, broccoli trees, cabbage waves, in general he has plenty of imagination.

Its main goal is to instill in children a love of healthy and proper nutrition. His paintings are distinguished by spontaneity, fabulousness and extraordinary realism. They cause delight and kind smiles on their faces.

In terms of complexity of execution, laying out food landscapes is no more difficult than painting in oils. Creating one edible landscape takes a couple of days.

First, products are selected based on sketches. Then construction of the landscape, photography, retouching and combining all the layers and elements of the photograph. The end result is a magnificent illusion.

According to Karl, children prefer to eat chips and sauces because they look more attractive and appetizing than vegetables and greens. Pictures of food and edible landscapes completely deny the idea that healthy food is unattractive. They are often used by nutritionists and doctors.

At first glance, these images look like ordinary painted landscapes. But if you take a closer look, you will notice that the mountains on them are made of bread, the trees are nothing more than broccoli, and the role of stones is played by baked potatoes. And these are not paintings, but photographs! Almost everything you see on them is made from real food!

Australian photographer Carl Warner, who works in London, says: “I try to create very traditional landscapes to convince the viewer that they are seeing ordinary pictures at first glance. When people understand what my work is actually made of, they always smile - and for me this is the best reward.”

Karl is truly a master of his craft, and his imagination simply has no limits! Well, who else would have come up with the idea of depicting a storm using waves of... cabbage leaves?

In the process of creating each painting, two to three days are spent constructing the landscape and photographing it. But food spoils very quickly under the light that is necessary to create successful photographs. Each scene is photographed in layers from foreground to the background. It takes another couple of days to retouch and combine all the elements of the image.

Carl spends a lot of time planning each image before he begins creating it. He can also stare at vegetables in supermarkets for a long time, which is why others consider him a little strange.

Carl Warner began his career by attending art college and wanting to become an illustrator because he had a talent for drawing. However, later he realized that photography brought him real pleasure. IN last years Karl constantly receives orders from many European advertising agencies who want to get his unusual photographs for their clients from the food industry.

Next illustrative example unusual creativity in the world. At first glance, these paintings look like oil-painted landscapes - complete with towering hills, crazy seas and stormy weather. However, if you look closely, you will see that the sea and the storm are just cabbage. In other photographs, the “models” are broccoli, potatoes, bread, and cheese. These are not paintings, these are real photographs!!! And all the details of the landscapes are real products!

The author of the works is the famous Australian photographer Carl Warner, who graduated art college and planned to become an illustrator, however, in time he found his true calling. His work is amazing, you must agree!

And if you think about how much time, labor and effort each photograph takes (products quickly lose their “face” - you need to work quickly and professionally, in addition, the photographs are multi-layered - Karl superimposes images on each other), surprise may well turn into admiration.

Only upon closer examination do you understand that these are not drawings at all, but real photographs of real vegetables, fruits, bread, cheese and others food products! That is why his food landscapes are also called foodscapes.

The photographer's popularity increased greatly after his edible landscapes gained popularity. Many product companies want to get such an original photographer to produce advertising and booklets about their products. After all, usually special dummies are used for filming advertisements, not real products, but Carl Warner works with real products, and with such a sense of humor and imagination!

Working on such photographs is also difficult because food very quickly loses its appearance, withers and spoils under bright lighting, and yet it takes the author two to three days to actually build a composition of vegetables, fruits and other food and photograph it!

Much more time is spent on processing the resulting photographs and connecting disparate elements, on planning each photograph (long before Karl picks up the camera), drawing sketches... And what are the many hours of looking at vegetables in the supermarket worth (many people who saw him in store, they probably consider it slightly abnormal)!

The main thing we can take away from the work of Carl Warner is that even food is a field for imagination. Your children will surely appreciate the new creative presentation of dishes and will even eat vegetables with great appetite!

Karl says: "I try to paint the most traditional landscapes because I want to make the audience think that this is an ordinary picture. Knowing the real ingredients of the picture brings a smile, and for me that's the main thing."

Were you able to resist smiling while looking at his photographs?

The first photo that started Karl's passion edible landscapes started with a trial of "Mushroom Savanna", after the success of which he began to use many more different edible components in one landscape:

This is how the process itself happens...
Carl Warner at work