No oil paining - or is it?

If you frame a dirty pizza box does that make it art? It is an oil painting after all. Created by Steve Carr.

Yum!

Adorable knitted macarons by the clever Sian Keegan (cool name huh!). Shop here and here.

Mornings + Melancholia

A pink dishcloth in every image above from Laura Letinsky's Morning, and Melancholia series and table remains below.

Eating Design

An amazing book of eating designer Marije Vogelzang's food installations and experiments. Food is her artistic medium and like all art, is created to be enjoyed, to bring people together and to invoke thought, but this art is art is temporary, perishable and environmentally friendly. It literally feeds and nourishes mind, body and soul. Find Proef, her food laboratory/cafe in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. All illustrations in the book are by Marije too. An inspiring read. Available through BIS publishers.

Food Temples

Marshmallow box cake and bollyfood temple by artist Martine Camillieri.

Artistic Buffets

Amazing buffets by artist Martine Camillieri. Buffets above are: 13 desserts, forest, biodegradable + flowerbar.

images from Matine Camillieri.

Art of Confection + Landscapes of Sugar Dunes

Floor Art :: Golden Apples of the Sun, 2008 via PICA

SEPARATE :: above: art by Nicole Andrijevic on left + Tanya Schultz on right via art source

TOGETHER :: below: Under the Crystal Sky, 2009 from The Japan Foundation

Pip & Pop (aka collaborative Perth artists Tanya Schultz and Nicole Andrijevic) are bringing their exhibition Under the Crystal Sky to the Japan Foundation Gallery 2009 Facetnate! program. Their abundantly detailed and hypercoloured works are made from confectionery, plastic objects, plants, origami, vinyl, paint, and magazine cut-outs and are set to specifically designed soundscapes. Inspired by the kawaii (cute) aesthetics of Japanese pop culture, their art encompasses installation, painting, photography and wall drawings. Under the Crystal Sky celebrates the culture of mass consumption and the ecstasy of excessiveness. They encourage the consumer to welcome the phenomenon of ‘happy capitalism’ with delighted glee.

Edge of the World images from giveaphuck

Castaway Cupcake

Amazing video art by Kirsten Lepore. The video below is c.10 mins long...the moral of the story? They live healthily ever after.

Paris Breakfast

I though I'd died and gone to heaven when I found Paris Breakfast. Carol is a New Yorker who paints Paris dreams. I love her macaron images as much as her patisserie ones and she has an entire flickr set devoted to the perfect little macaron. Original watercolours available here.

Felt Food

Can you believe all these little pieces of craft are created by needle felting?

Images from felt cafe's photstream taken from Japanese sweets books titled 'Sweets of wool felt: wool desserts made by needlefelting' ISBN 978-4-529-004415-8 and 'Japanese sweets' ISBN 978-4-7661-1967-1. These and other Japanese craft books and supplies available via feltcafe's shop + blog.

Banana Inspired Art

The images above are my all time favourite of Natsumi's - I just think it's genius.

Pure + Simple

A sheer delicacy. Natsumi Nishizumi's perfectly simple drawings. You can purchase her organic linen placemats and coasters from her shop.

The Ultimate High Tea

images via Luphia Loves - view whole editorial here.

Block

A project for an amazing series of little books called Lines and Shapes that features different artists in each volume. These images are by Thuss Farrell for volume2 : Block. View their their amazing 'Black and White Food' images here.

Painted Pictures

Lifelounge asks whether photorealism, that is replication of photographs in paint, is art or merely technical brilliance. Is brilliance not in existence however you choose to categorise it? If you ask me, these realistic paintings are amazing either way.

Image 1 by Holly Farrell - Cookbooks, 2009, acrylic & oil on masonite, 14 x 18 inches SOLD. Available through MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan.

Image 2 by Argentinian painter Diego Gravinese from his flickr via Lifelounge.

Image 3 by by Holly Farrell - Cookbooks, 2008, acrylic & oil on masonite, 14 x 18 inches, $3600. Available through CHASE GALLERY, Boston, MA.