The artwork of Dawn Tarr.

Recently I created a fan site on facebook-also called Amanda Cupcake. Amanda Cupcake Facebook Fan Page

This invites people from all over the world to view my cupcakes at their own will.  It also allows me to network with other creative people.

I stumbled upon a talented artist who found me on facebook and told me she loves my fan page! I am so flattered to be sought out on the worldwide web and loved by an amazing talent like her! Her name is Dawn Tarr.  

To me, every one of her paintings tells me a story about a person - or even an animal.  My heart is filled with whimsy and color. She says her art is created by a "mood." I can see why she might be an Amanda Cupcake fan.  I have the same passion for sharing my "cupcake art" with the world and it is all created by the sensational mood that makes up..Amanda Cupcake.  I think I may have just found a cupcake connection on facebook!  Only in 2010 could you reach out to a kindred spirit who is from the other side of the United States through cupcake art!

I begged Dawn to paint a picture of me with a cupcake. I think I'd like it to be Marilyn Monroe-esque with a sweet Amanda Cupcake twist. 

Oh ... to be painted by Dawn Tarr.

After doing a little research on Dawn, I thought it was quite coincidental that she sent one of her paintings to Ellen Degeneres.  In the painting, Ellen is dancing with her pet doggy whose name is Pig!  Ellen loved the painting so much that she created a segment on her show just for Dawn's artwork.  Funny because of my previous blog begging Ellen to eat one of my cupcakes. .

Anyway--when it comes to art, honestly--you have to visualize. I think I've said enough in words.

 

Some of my favorite Dawn Tarr artwork below:

You can see more on her website:  www.dawntarr.com

Classic.

The first cake I ever decorated was for my brother, Cliff. (He is two years older than me).
I think I was 14 or 15 years old.
I found this picture of it awhile ago.
I clearly remember my ex boyfriend in high school telling me how I made funny looking cakes because he saw this photo.  He actually remembered the photo of this cake months after seeing it and told me that something he'd always remember about me is that I made funny looking cakes!

This cake is full of life. Where else in the world does Gumby, Toast Man, a Circus Lion, plastic ooga booga monster from the sqwauking egg machine, and plastic bowl cut head dude come together on top of a funfetti cake?
Nowhere else other than my teenage mind of course.
There were so many other things I could have been messing with at fourteen or fifteen.
But instead..I made a funky and psychedelic cake for my brother Cliff.

Bro-if you are reading this, this one's dedicated to you.

Good times. =) 

Ellen Degeneres, please eat my cupcakes

I am a huge fan of Ellen Degeneres.
I have been to like four of her shows since I moved to California.
She even squirted me in the eye with a watergun at her "Ellen in the Park" show.

Now I want to share my cupcakes with her.
I feel my quirky, fun, and best of all YUMMY cupcakes suit her personality the best out of any famous person I can think of.

I have loved her since I was like thirteen. I used to watch her sitcom back in the day.

Someday she will eat my cupcakes.

Guaranteed.