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Announcing our Creative Grants recipients
Having It
Both Ways
Is it better to possess a thing of beauty, or to experience the ultimate consummation of oneness with that beautiful thing by actually consuming it... and being left only with the memory of its beauty? Leave it up to our deviantARTists to think of a way to have it both ways – but left over as a feast for the eyes, preserved eternally on the digital planes of deviantART.
Craft, design, and artistry as applied to the most delicious and sinful of the culinary disciplines rises forth as we shine warming a light on this small but incredibly skilled serving of artists within the deviantART community. In an effort to taste all of the communities within deviantART, let’s take a quick exit off the main freeway of art categories and stop inside the open-all-night eatery for a re-fuelling of the most important food group:
Cakes, pies and cupcakes
It is a decidedly sweet batch of artwork.
There are rows of identical Twinkies (or used to be) and then there are these carefully crafted monuments to pop culture icons constructed from a palette of sugar and ingenious design ideas. The group #dA-Cake-Artists features a wide array of cakes produced by artists from every deviantART kitchen. Sample the artistic recipes given beneath many of these deviations describing the process and story behind each creation. Watch the group for what I am sure will a very interesting Holiday season of elaborately designed edible artworks submitted over the next month. Also check out #FoodIsArt.
Many of these artworks fall into the “how could they have possibly made that happen” category. This dragon “Skyward Sword :: Furnix Cake” by *cakecrumbs is especially noteworthy. I am sure having a Master's degree in Zoology helped a bit while Rhiannon was designing this dragon. Or was it hours playing Zelda while munching on sweets? Something must stir her incredible talent and skill.
People have always had an obsessional and mystical relationship with the demands of their stomachs, significant enough for eternal recording. When contemplating the Neolithic cave paintings of early humanity and marveling at the loving detail informing the herds of prehistoric gazelle that were the early hunters’ prey, one must wonder, was it the adrenaline rush of the hunt that the artist was trying to capture, or was he merely consumed with mankind’s most pressing daily question:
What’s for lunch?
I am assuming I have to turn in my copy of “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” after that last line. But, one should ask how an artist could complete one of these works on these pages without eating it before it is born (I mean fully baked). Obviously it’s better at the end of the day to be covered by butter, sugar and frosting than paints full of toxic if not fatal chemicals.
But those are SO much different from the cakes that we have here~
1. Hmmm.. Sometimes I do have something to drink.... Something fruity~ Or just milk
And some candy maybe
2. No Idea /D Don't ask me about these. A cake is a good cake as long as it's not too pretty to be eaten
3. I always try to make things to look good Cx
When we had to make food in one thing at school.. I was usually the one they put to make the sallad.. But when I once get to make the desert: it looked pretty, it tasted good and there was just enough of it~ [ 'Frozen' fruits just taken out of the freezer + caramel fudge and some beautiful glass thing s for them to be in it~ ]
4. Any kind~ If we have those. Too much things to do so deserts are rare
2. that's a hard line to draw- but I would definitely have to consider “Skyward Sword :: Furnix Cake” by *cakecrumbs a work of sculpture!
3. All the time! When I was five or so I made a 'mothers day mouse' out of a pear body, gummy worm tail, cherry nose, chocolate chip eyes,and almond slivers for the ears. I made a turtle frybread once when I was like, 12. and Birthday cakes are always a fun thing to do. and don't get me started on sugar cookies or gingerbread houses!
4. DO I HAVE TO CHOOSE? pretty much anything with sugar in it is amazing to me. Though of late I have been extra fond of Hazelnut or coconut delights!
The place where I'd draw the line is whenever I feel quilty for eating something so pretty and artsy.
Well, I made a rabbit out of and apple for Easter.
My favorite form of desert is icecream.
2. There is no line, I watch food network all of the time and the things they make are simply amazing.
3. After watching a show Ace of Cakes, I made a cake that looked like a duck. It wasn't the best since it was the first one I had attempted, but it tasted good.
4. My favorite desert is pudding. You can never have enough chocolate
Q. 2) None. All food is art, inside or out. UNLESS it is undeniably revolting inside and out.
Q. 3) One time, I tried drawing anime on a cake. It resembled hell. Then, I just made a palm tree and island out of kiwis, oranges, and a banana. At least THAT didn't have me gagging all over the kitchen floor, having to clean it up, then spending 4 hours stuck on the toilet reading manga in a really frustrating way.
Q. 4) I like things that are chewy on the inside, but have a slight spongy texture and crispy on the outside. Like macaroons. Or things that are milky and creamy. OR PUDDING.