Wayne Thiebaud-Texture

Wayne Thiebaud is an artist that implements both implied texture, and actual texture shown with the thick paint he smears on the canvas in his delicious dessert paintings. As our last texture project, we embraced Thiebaud by creating dessert paintings of our own (with VERY thick paint, of course!)

Our Kindergarteners and 1st graders created textured reproductions of Thiebaud's ice cream paintings.
 Below is the example of his artwork I showed the students:

  

They loved squeezing the "hot fudge" on their ice cream cones.

Our grades 2/3 tackled some luscious cupcakes inspired by Thiebaud's thickly painted "Boston Cremes" shown below!

This puff paint was achieved by mixing equal parts glue and shaving cream.

Everyone's cupcakes turned out great!
Our 4th and 5th graders took on a little more of a challenge with a slice of delicious cake using thick actual texture for the icing, and spongey implied texture for the cake.

Perfectly frosted, Alexa!

I love the bright blue, Chayse!

Awesome color contrast, Damian!

These were so fun to do, and for now I think we are VERY clear on how to use the element of Texture in our artwork!