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Default Any artists in the crowd?

On Jul 24, 11:50*am, spamtrap1888 > wrote:
> On Jul 24, 10:39*am, (z z) wrote:
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> > I do not have the gene to create art, but I do apppreciate art. I
> > especially enjoy when people use art to break out of the mold. Recent
> > years have seen people using skin and nails and hair as a canvas for
> > art. Long overdue and the next coming is doors-front door, garage door,
> > cupboard doors, car doors...There must be millions of ultra boring front
> > doors and garage doors in America calling out for artistic expression.
> > Those decals they are now selling for your walls have great potential
> > for other applications. I personally decorated my laptop with some
> > really cool 3 dimensional art stickers-very elegant ones in a black
> > paisley/scrolls style. (Hmmm they are not paper stickers so I wonder if
> > they would remain stuck-on in the bathtub???)

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> > So to tie this into food someone in another group posted a recipe that
> > called for decorating the top of a cheesecake with green and red pepper
> > jelly. I immediately thought of what I could do with a toothpick to
> > swirl them together in a pattern, which led to thoughts of painting with
> > frosting. I have seen art on eggshells done with food dyes but I have
> > never seen art in frosting (decorative frosting yes, art to the level of
> > a painting w/frosting no.) With jelly your color palette is limited but
> > with frosting every color is possible.

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> > What was your most artistic food masterpiece?

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> I use bacon strips to make a frame around the scrambled eggs for
> Sunday breakfast.


Man, that's edgy!