Sweet Bomb
There seems to have been an explosion of confectionary shops across UK & Ireland in the past year, and the popularity of them has led to an so many wonderful shop designs and sumptious window displays all trying to out-do each other.

Not that I am complaining.

As an artist colour attracts and brightens my world, so sweet shops have it all for me. Thankfully I don't really eat them but I do think sweets are miniature works of art in themselves and deserve to be painted. So on that note here is one I made earlier
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So what is so artistic about a bag of sweets, you might ask? Well, take this ordinary bag of Spinning Tops. Just strawberry and vanilla flavoured white chocolate with sprinkles in a cellophane bag tied at the neck. If you empty them out onto a plate their visual appeal soon dwindles. But in a clear bag and with a good light source you soon start to see many beautiful colours being reflected back from the plastic : blues, pinks, ochres. The way the artist presents the sweets is paramount to a getting a good finished painting and only with good composition and lighting can the artist get a good visual message across.  My message in this painting is not about the sweets at all, but that "clear cellophane can be so beautiful"
 


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