Something magical happens when our favorite artists decide to bring their love for food to canvas, and no one’s doing it like Julia Stankevych. Her oil paintings perfectly capture the yumminess of her favorite foods and look just as delicious as the real thing.
Stankevych is a young Ukrainian painter, who’s using the power of social media to share her talent with the world. Her videos became a huge sensation on Instagram, attracting 190,000 followers and millions of views because they do a great job capturing her creative process.
Stankevych mostly works with oil paint, and she’s looking for the brightest of colors in life through her work. Painting food is her way of evoking positive emotions, and she wants her work to convey the taste, smell, and sensation of food through paints and canvas.
Her impasto paintings of food are usually depicted on newspapers, and she uses gesso—the mixture of glue, chalk, and white pigment – to prepare the canvas.
Stankevych’s viral videos perfectly capture the work that goes into every single painting. From fruits and veggies to our favorite breakfast foods and sweet treats, this talented artist is bringing all sorts of delicious treats to life in the most spectacular fashion.
