New sign painting on a scrap piece of masonite

‘Tastes Great! 2’, 24 x 22”. Enamel and acrylic paint on masonite. Inspired by classic ice cream cone packaging.
You can see the original Tastes Great! HERE (completed back in March 2020, during the height of the pandemic) The original sign sold so that is why I decided to make another one. Bigger and better!

New work - Fairground food signs on paper

New hand painted sign on printing paper.

“Pop Corn” enamel, acrylic, and latex paint, 18.75 x 26.25” 2021
This sign is a bit of an oddball in that there are stripes and such, but it just felt appropriate. Perhaps when I get the whole series done it won’t look so different.

If you didn’t know:
“Popcorn (popped corn, popcorns or pop-corn) is a variety of corn kernel which expands and puffs up when heated; the same names are also used to refer to the foodstuff produced by the expansion. A popcorn kernel's strong hull contains the seed's hard, starchy shell endosperm with 14–20% moisture, which turns to steam as the kernel is heated. Pressure from the steam continues to build until the hull ruptures, allowing the kernel to forcefully expand, from 20 to 50 times its original size, and then cool.”

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New work - Fairground food signs on paper

New hand painted sign on printing paper.
”Cotton Candy” enamel, acrylic, and latex paint, 18.75 x 26.25”, 2021

In case you didn’t know:
“Cotton candy or Candy Floss is a spun sugar confection that resembles cotton. It usually contains small amounts of flavoring or food coloring. The candy is made by heating and liquefying sugar, spinning it centrifugally through minute holes—by which the sugar rapidly cools and re-solidifies into fine strands. It is often sold at fairs, circuses, carnivals, and festivals—served in a plastic bag or on a stick or paper cone. Cotton candy is made and sold globally—as candy floss in the UK, Ireland, Egypt, India, Sri Lanka, and South Africa, and as fairy floss in Australia and New Zealand. Similar confections include the Korean Kkul-tarae and the Persian pashmak.”

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New work - Fairground food signs on paper

New hand painted sign on paper.

“Ice Cold Drinks” enamel and latex paint, 18.75 x 26.25” 2021

This piece is sporting the Icy caps to help accentuate the cold. I’m probably going to do those again when I get to snow cones. This one is obviously text only but I might do another one down the road with a cup + straw in it. Soda, orange, and grape drink are the first to come to mind.

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New work - Fairground food signs on paper

New hand painted signs on printing paper.
”Hot Dogs - Plump and Juicy” enamel, acrylic, and latex paint. 18.75 x 26.25”

Things are on a roll here! Since moving to Minneapolis, MN I have been focused on painting signs relating to fairground food, or maybe its carnival food. Are they the same thing(?)
Right now I have twelve food items I would like to address, snow cones, pretzels, corn dogs, etc.

Why the interest in this imagery? Usually when I get an idea I just go with it so that I don’t overthink things. But perhaps I’m feeling nostalgic after being in pandemic lockdown for so long… or maybe I want to indulge in junk food… I’m not sure. Or food relating to entertainment? I told myself that I didn’t want to make art anymore so perhaps these paintings are the antithesis of that statement.

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New hand painted sign at the studio!

Sign painting on a scrap piece of masonite.
Inspired by DC‘s “World’s Finest” comic book title. 18 x 24”

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