5" x 7" oil on gessoed panel
This weekend the local Asian market was celebrating a "Moon Festival", and tins of "moon cakes" were for sale in great big stacks. Some of them were round, and others were shaped like pigs. The pig shaped "cakes" (more like cookies, in this case) were so much fun to look at in their strange space-suit-like plastic containers, that I absolutely had to acquire one for painting purposes.
Of course, if you've never had a pig-shaped moon cake you might wonder how it tastes. The closest comparison I can make is to Marzipan, or a similar paste made from nuts, except more like vegetables (the ingredients are lotus seeds and peanut oil). I wouldn't seek them out again, but they were interesting to try once, and I liked painting the pig.
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