“Happy Strawberries” 2015
This was my final piece for my Painting Explorations class this semester. This assignment was supposed to be a self portrait of some kind, but my professor Scott encouraged me to explore my apparent strong connection to food. I made a plaster mold from a real halved strawberry and made 16 polymer clay strawberries from that. I gesso’d each and then painted each with acrylic paint. I embellished each with tiny glass beads to give a texture very similar to what the seeds would feel like. And then I added glitter because hello, it’s me. And everything is better with glitter.
