Nestle - SMARTIES - Food Art History

Artists need to plan their work before they begin. Famous French artist Henri Toulouse Lautrec often sketched his ideas on his napkin when he was eating!

	Try drawing your ideas out first on plain paper, so that you know what you’ll need.
	Did you know that Pointillism is a style of painting using only dots of colours? Why not try creating your own SMARTIES Pointillism?
	How can you blend foods together? A) Try mixing different coloured sauces together. B) Spread out cereal on one side, and rice on the other, and mixing them up where they join to merge colours together.
	To make tree bark try using brown cereal, to make grass try green coloured desiccated coconut.
	You can use both raw and cooked foods. For example, mashed cooked potatoes could be a sandy beach, grated raw carrot can be fur...
	Try painting with food! You can paint with strawberry jam by mixing with a little cold water in a bowl, then painting on with a brush. Or melted chocolate can be drizzled to create outlines. You can also use icing sugar, mixed with a little cold water to make runny icing, and food colours can be added.
Your artwork may look delicious, but it may not be good to eat! If foods have been out of the fridge for a while, if you’ve mixed raw and cooked foods, or if you’ve used non-foods such as glue, then you must not eat it.