Wayne Thiebaud: Pop Art Cakes with Light & Shadow

• Wayne Thiebaud was a figure in the Pop Art movement. His work takes something ordinary from everyday life or Pop Culture (usually cakes) and tries to make you look at it in a different way that raises it to the level of fine art. His exaggerated shadows are an homage to the advertising industry.
• Students created the cakes by studying how to render the 3 dimensional cylinder as a 2 dimensional drawing.
• The light effects were created by painstakingly creating a gradation from light to dark along the curved edge of the cake. The cast shadows then had to be made in agreement with the shadin on the surface of the cake.