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Though many took the opportunity of lockdown to open up their ovens and learn new cooking skills, many others may by now be done with all of their cookbooks and left to while away the days playing with their food.
Fortunately, there is a new way to play that may even help develop other creative skills!
Watercolor Snacks is a beautiful collection of food-inspired art projects that have been created and compiled by famed food illustrator and animator(!) Volta Voloshin-Smith who also has a delicious website called Color Snack (www.colorsnack.com).
After helping assemble your ingredients (i.e., paints) and utensils (e.g., brushes, paper, and hair dryers), Voloshin-Smith introduces such creative (and culinary) concepts as carrot-based color theory, cauliflower formation, mixing and blending, and how to deal with kitchen glitches.
Once those are set, it is off to the refrigerator to look for inspiration!
From pancakes and donuts to pizza and tacos to popsicles, cupcakes, fruits and veggies, and even drinks (including a signature rainbow cocktail that brings all the colors to the bar), Voloshin-Smith has a guide for every taste that will eventually result in images that look as good as their real-life models taste (if not better!).
So even if your cooking experiments did not come out picture-perfect, now you can paint pictures of what you dream them to be and hopefully inspire yourself and others to keep trying!