Yesterday, I showed you some of my latest digital art. Well, here's a fellow in the US of A who doesn't use his computer to create art. He uses pasta. Self-taught artist Vernon Spicer, from Alabama, uses pasta like spaghetti, macaroni, lasagna and noodles to create his detailed paintings.
I’ve seen some pretty unusual materials used in paintings, but pasta is definitely a first for me. 71-year-old Vernon Spicer, a Vietnam veteran and pastor at a church in Selma, Alabama, got the idea of using the brittle material from a dream he had one night. It woke me up one night,” he told the Montgomery Advertiser. “In it, I could see something that had a three-dimensional design, one that involved me using sticks to create.”
Instead telling him to get over it, wife Audrey encouraged him to pursue the vision and suggested he replace the sticks with uncooked spaghetti. That’s how Vernon’s career as an amateur pasta artist began. Now, six years later, Spicer can create some pretty amazing works of art.
Side benefit? If people don't like his art, he can eat it! Of course, if he's using cooked pasta, it could get mouldy and it's likely fastened to the canvas with something...perhaps crazy glue so that may not be a good idea - although a good, garlicky tomato sauce can mask pretty well anything, right?
See ya, eh!
Bob
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