Pop Art Cakes

Cupcake, 2000. Wayne Thiebaud. Image via wikipedia.

This project is a slight variation on this one from Kathy Barbro at Art Projects For Kids and inspired by my colleague Linda, who made really beautiful cupcakes with her grade fours. I have also been doing a lot of Pop Art inspired work with these students and this work was particularly inspired by American artist Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920).

I asked the students to firstly make a drawing of what their cake should look like and was impressed how literally many of them converted their designs into 3D creations.

This was the first time I'd attempted a clay project in a classroom setting with no art room tools (let's just say the carpet didn't look so good afterwards...) so I drew the line at glazing the cakes and instead we painted and varnished them.

Best of all, they are totally vegan, gluten free, sugar free and guilt free.

I love this one but it does kind of creep me out in a 'Spy vs Spy' kinda way....