Cherry Danish

"Cherry Danish" -- oil on canvas 6x6" -- Margie Guyot

Glad to be finished painting "Hint of Mint", I turned to a cherry danish I'd bought up at Johann's Bakery in Petoskey.  I'd bought it at least a week ago, but heck -- it still looked pretty good.  So I painted it, using the last of the 6x6" canvases.  It was so much fun to do!  I'll probably start a "pastry" series next, followed by slices of pie, slices of cake, flowers, maybe even fishing lures.

Jerry's Artarama put on a huge sale on their 6x6" canvases, so I ordered 90 more.  Look out, world!

Chocolate Cherry Royale

 "Chocolate Cherry Royale #4" -- oil on canvas 6x6" -- Margie Guyot

 "Chocolate Cherry Royale #5" -- oil on canvas 6x6" -- Margie Guyot

"Chocolate Cherry Royale #6" -- oil on canvas 6x6" -- Margie Guyot

I just realized that most people tend to prefer the paintings with the cherries on top.  So I had to crank out some more paintings of this one.  I think it's one of the prettier cupcakes from Simplycupcakes.  According to the website description, this one is composed of chocolate cake, cherry filling, chocolate ganache, vanilla buttercream, a cherry and shaved chocolate.  Whew!  Hard to resist eating this one!

Cherry Royale Cupcake

"Cherry Royale Cupcake" -- oil on canvas 6x6" -- Margie Guyot

I'd just finished "Owl" and it was only 1 PM.  No snow yet.  Big snowstorm expected tonight, dumping up to 10" by tomorrow afternoon.  It was the perfect window of opportunity to zip down to Traverse City, to SimplyCupcakes and get a few new varieties to paint.  It's about a 45 minute drive for me, so I was very happy when they gave me 4 today.  It will keep me occupied while snowbound!


Here's the description from their website (www.simplycupcakestc.com):

Cherry Royale : A sour cream cake filled with our homemade tart cherry filling made with local cherries (Friske Orchards) with a thin layer of white chocolate ganache and a generous portion of cherry buttercream and topped with an Imperial red chocolate covered cherry from Cherry Republic!

I imagine it's delicious. It won't be, by the time I'm finished painting it 3 or 4 times.  There are several galleries that I want to place these cupcake paintings in, so I may as well do several paintings from each cupcake.  The chickens will get them when I'm finished.  Trying to watch my waistline, so I can't pig-out on sweets like I did when I was a kid.

Many thanks to SimplyCupcakesTC for generously providing me with cupcakes!