Wayne Theibaud was an American painter known for his colorful works depicting common place objects, such as pies, cakes, lipsticks, paint, cans, and ice cream, cones, etc. He was born in 1920 and died in December 2021. he used heavy pigment and exaggerated colors for his subjects with well defined shadows. The objects were simplified.
Caroline used his cheesecake photo to illustrate this artist big brush approach. She drew the shape in greens, including the blue for shadow and under the plate and then used the following colors to paint the cheesecake . CAD red mid and light, primary blue, phalo green, and white.
She recommended using inexpensive paint to try this out as you layer the paint on quite thickly like icing.
Towards the end she layered over the painting swiftly with big dollops of paint being swished around, especially on the berries.
Enjoy playing with this artists way of painting.



