Description
When I painted the first fruit tart “Fruit Tart,” I missed the color green in it. Every single other painting I’ve done before and since has had green in it somewhere – even “Fauchon Eclairs” has green-colored candies on some of the eclairs. So when I saw these tiny kiwi fruit in the market I bought some to make another fruit tart with them for a painting. I love to cook and actually think of it as my first art-form. I love making food beautiful, like these fruit tarts – arranging the fruit so the colors are pleasing is so satisfying. Whereas my creative process usually starts with a camera, sometimes it actually starts with making pastry! I painted this one differently than I usually do. Normally I paint the background to the foreground, painting the focal point last. This one I painted row by row. It was fun to see it take shape, like a wave of color working its way down the paper. All of my pastry paintings have some sort of French or Paris connection, this one is its name – I named it “Bijoux” as they seem like sparkly jewels sitting in their box of pastry.
February 2013
