More Chocolate Covered Strawberries!

 "Chocolate Covered Strawberry #3" -- oil on canvas 6x6" -- Margie Guyot

 "Chocolate Covered Strawberry #4" -- oil on canvas 6x6" -- Margie Guyot

 

 "Chocolate Covered Strawberry #5" -- oil on canvas 6x6" -- Margie Guyot

 "Chocolate Covered Strawberry #6" -- oil on canvas 6x6" -- Margie Guyot

 

 "Chocolate Covered Strawberry #7" -- oil on canvas 6x6" -- Margie Guyot

 

This is such a beautiful-looking cupcake to paint!  From Simplycupcakes, in Traverse City, Michigan.  It's made of strawberry cake, topped with chocolate ganache, strawberry buttercream and a slice of a fresh strawberry.  I'd painted a couple of this one the day before and removed the strawberry at the end of the session.  Fed it to Henny Penny, the studio chicken.  These cupcakes hold up remarkably well, but I knew the strawberry slice would turn it funky in a hurry.

People ask why I'm painting multiple versions of cupcakes.  Well, I've got 5 shows this year and I need cupcakes in just about every one of them.  It's kind of a fun break, painting small canvases.  I've done so many large still life paintings, it's kind of a lark to work differently.  Each time I finish a canvas, I turn the cupcake a little to see a completely different view.  It's not like I'm copying the same finished painting.  THAT would be way too boring.