Deliciously colorful paintings made of melting ice cream

13:28 • 26.08.14

While most people prefer their ice-cream frozen, Baghdad-based artist Othman Toma likes it melted, reports the Oddity Central.


He uses multi-colored melting treats as a medium for his art, instead of normal paint.


And it works incredibly well. In fact, to the untrained eye, his artworks seem painted with regular watercolors.

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Toma paints all sorts of stuff using ice cream – lions, tigers, women’s faces, popular monuments, and more. It’s just marvelous how he manages to get such a wide array of colors with very few shades of the cold dessert. All he needs to do is reach out into his freezer.
 

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To create the paintings, Toma places his chosen flavors of ice cream on a plate, until they melt. Once they do, he scoops up the sugary, colored liquid and begins to paint.

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When the piece is complete, he takes a photograph of it along with the ice creams that went into making it.

 

See more on the Oddity Central website.
 

Deliciously colorful paintings made of melting ice cream