Tofurkey Collabo - Emily Week 4

The challenge this week was a lot of fun. We had to draw inspiration from children's artwork and create our own piece with a visible connection to our inspiration piece. When I first heard the challenge, I was reminded of this artist that I discovered a long time ago at the beginning of my StumbleUpon days. He recreates children’s drawings in his photographs. Very neat.

As for my sister and I….Naturally, we enlisted our niece and nephews to help us out. My sister used my niece’s drawing as inspiration. I used my nephew’s picture as inspiration. Here is his awesome turkey art with my finished piece:

Nice job, Little Robbie! I love the texture and all the color. What a fun turkey for Thanksgiving!

Both my sister and I used this piece by our nephew Benjamin as inspiration as well. His and mine:

I love the color. In school, it was obvious what projects were mine because they were always very brightly colored. Benjamin’s piece was great for me!

Back to the beginning... I’ve been wanting to make a cake for a while now, and I thought this challenge would be the perfect opportunity. Especially when I saw my inspiration pieces! I love baking and desserts (even still after I’ve done it for a job!) and it just might be my favorite type of artwork. There is so much room for creativity. AND it tastes great! To make the turkey cake, I threw on an apron and enlisted the help of my mixer. I used chocolate cake, sugar cookies, and ganache. I used sugar cookie and a fun swirly tie-dye technique to connect with my nephew Benjamin’s art piece. Here are some pictures from along the way.

And, yes, it tasted great. Thanks again to Robbie, Lauren, and Benjamin. See you next week!

-E