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Sugar-Coated Paintings
by Jane Harris


*Still Life with Chocolates* by Cathy Chin

Using M&M candies and pigments derived from Kool-Aid, Martha Benzing makes paintings you could honestly call sweet. The Pop pizzazz of her early paintings, which ensconced layers and layers of bright colored M&Ms in a glossy resin, gave them a playful quality.


*Abstract Candy* by James Sasso

Their seductive humor was unmistakable: seeing so many sweet little melt-in-your-mouth candies one could hardly avoid the urge to eat them.

Benzing's more recent paintings are bigger, less colorful and much more serious.


*Harvest of Star* by Coste

Depicting celestial stars twinkling in the night, they also use Kool-Aid and M&Ms, but the candies (blue and purple ones mostly) are melted completely onto the surface. Painted onto a canvas made of silk and covered with a cold wax varnish, they have a more sublime, painterly quality.


*Carolina Sunset* by Karen Nangle

Featuring works by PaintingsDIRECT.com artists.

These newest paintings have transformed their confectionery materials into beautiful, dreamy objects. Who would think one could get so much atmosphere from Kool-Aid and candy?

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