Abbey Ryan's painting of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Abbey Ryan creates one painting a day and auctions them on eBay. Other artists do the same thing. What a fun way to make a living! Here's a peanut butter and jelly sandwich she painted (6 x 8 in. oil linen on panel). The current bid is $152.50.
It's interesting to watch Abbey paint. Here's a video of her painting a picture of a strawberry and blueberries.
Abbey knows I am a cigar box guitar maker, so she sent me a photo of her cigar box easel (click for bigger).
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Now I'm hungry. :(
Talia, me too!
Thirding the hungry sentiment.
That must be some kind of sign when your paintings of food make people hungry.
Me three!
It's kind of Dutch in its attention to the quotidian, no? No silver service or oysters, sure, but the same lovely attention to the surface of objects, the sensuous presentation of a foodstuff. Lovely!
I ordered tuna fish on rye.
it seems so much harder to make a painting of PB&J than to actually make PB&J
I also got a real Dutch still life vibe. Needs a watch or a skull to remind us of our mortality, though.
I'm enamored.
Take that, Andy Warhol!
Your soup can didn't make these people hungry.
"It's kind of Dutch in its attention to the quotidian..." Oh good God. See why I ran out of Art History screaming? My wife has orders to shoot me if I ever talk like that.
Uh... but it works on you, T Dawwg.
Maybe I should just go make a sandwich...
She also has an Etsy store: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5317502
And a blog: http://ryanstudio.blogspot.com/
Love her work!
Ha!
@Boba Fett Diop,
Peanut butter & Memento mori
Maybe the spilled jelly, Boba Fett Diop?
@9: Not sure if my professor would have accepted "kind of" in my papers.
I wonder about the holiday tag. Is today PB & J day? If so, huzzah!
I'll bet Abbey is thrilled with getting Boing-Boinged. This painting is now up to $330.
As much as I like this, I don't know where we could hang it.
Never was a fan of still life... I did something bazaar when an art teacher made us do a still life.
That aside, these are some fine, fine paintings. You are the master, Abbey! I especially love the tan lines on your fingers, that reveal your propensity for wearing gloves with the fingertips cut off, hobo style. If I had to guess, I'd think you're probably on the eastern seaboard. Probably done some world travelling- enough to shed a lot of Americana nonsense. Probably seen a lot of European painters trying to make a living from it, yet clever enough to devise a means of marketing your product from the comforts and convenience of your home. You go, girl!
As nice as this painting is, Duane Keiser has been painting pb&j paintings (http://duanekeiser.blogspot.com/search?q=pb), making a painting-a-day and using a cigar box easel for years. This is at best highly derivative.
About to say the same thing. Much of her work looks eerily similar to Keiser. He was also on boing boing a while back http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/10/a-painting-a-day-web.html
What #17 Anonymous said.
I'm sure I'd be impressed to see this on an actual canvas, but there's a little too much photorealism to make much of an impression online. I'd be more impressed, or at least more visually interested with it if it were actually slightly more abstract.
Some photorealism in paintings I like, others less so. As I said, perhaps the online digital picture of this painting doesn't really do it justice.
#17 Anonymous, et al -- I'm another painter from the painting a day community. If you re-read the post, it says many other artists also have a painting a day blog. Or a drawing a day. Or a photo a day. It's a very common thing for artists to maintain a daily practice -- and has been for centuries.
There was no mention that she invented painting or painting a day or blogging or a cigar box easel (they are sold commercially: http://www.dickblick.com/products/guerrilla-painter-cigar-box-and-accessories/). In fact, there are many hundreds of other artists doing this. And many artists paint PBJ. Check out http://dailypainters.com or http://dailypaintworks.com. You'll see that it's a huge community of like-minded and inspiring artists.
It's a bit closed minded and stagnant to call any kind of art derivative.
This painting tells me that I have the midnight munchies. Damn - why is all my bread mouldy?
The PB&J Graphic Representation Society. A formidable secret society of almost ninja-like agents who don't allow individuals to get recognition. They get transferred if they are named. They're commies. If you wanna look at one PB&J, you're gonna look at ALL the PB&J's.
I want in! Better do a PB&J picture, to bring to the interview. [scribble scribble scribble]
bidding is now up to 330 @ 4:30PM PDT
"And many artists paint PBJ. Check out http://dailypainters.com or http://dailypaintworks.com. You'll see that it's a huge community of like-minded and inspiring artists."
Who all paint PB&J? That's scarily like-minded, and oddly inspiring.
This painting is all wrong. The sandwich should be cut along the horizontal axis - never diagonally.
... unless... of course! This is a painting depicting the tragedy of improperly cut sandwiches! Genius! Sorry it took me so long to catch on. I'm a little slow when it comes to great art.
Dripping jelly= the blood of the patriots.
Peanut butter= community, the human connection.
The slop all over the table= battlefields, battlescars.
The bread? Basic necessities of Life: Freedom, Protection, Something chewy to make you feel full, without getting your fingers all sticky.
'Tis the Story of Civilization. The History of Man.
I want to commit to the secret society that guards this ancient secret.
BRAVO! Great work, Abbey! LOVE IT.
I am reminded (I don't know why) of a (kinda) funny story: I was at the OK Harris Gallery in New York circa 1985 and there was a show of this, like crappy assemblage work that consisted of typical Office Depot cork boards, some business cards thumbtack'd to them, some string that was taped across each one with electrical tape, stuff like that and... it made me so mad that something that took 3 minutes to do and that totally sucked like this would be on the wall of a New York art gallery for $12,000 bucks. There was a whole room full of these things and it just pissed me off! But as I was going on my tirade about the work to my companion, I realized, "Oh shit, these are all *oil paintings*!" I mean, these things were MUNDANE in the extreme, purposefully "bad" but MASTERFULLY rendered.
When I realized that it was MY fault, that *I* was the one not getting the joke, I was totally bowled over by the show and how great it was. I wish I could recall who the artist was. (This ring a bell to anyone?)
But back to you, Abbey, very impressive!
Gorgeous. I love the detail.
Rich, sometimes artwork can just pick you up and throw you to a happy place. With your mind fairly blown.
giant PBJ:
http://www.duanekeiser.com/Pages/availablework3.html
scroll down.
Five foot PBJ. Duane Keiser has been painting them for years.
also:
http://www.closr.it/show/FAl-r1hvfzQ
Okay, that guy's pretty good too. Hope he's registered with the PB&J Graphic Representation Society, or he may be getting a late-night visit from an armless knife-thrower (they never leave fingerprints!)
I did notice that his painting depicts three halfs of two gidonical PB&J's. I must assume that consuming the fourth half sustained him during the execution of this project. With that much fiber in his diet, it's no wonder that he works at home.
@ROLLING here are available some of the Duane Keiser paintings: http://closr.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/what-can-i-do-with-closr-it/