{"product_id":"school-of-thought-2-a-trompe-loeil-foodscape-painting","title":"School of Thought 2 (a trompe l'oeil foodscape painting)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"School of Thought 2,\" acrylic on panel, 4\" x 4\". Unframed, flat 1\/8-inch panel. Based on a real-life food model of goldfish crackers on a swoop of aqua-colored frosting. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI had this idea to venture just a bit outside of my \"cookie\" scenes with the goldfish crackers. I thought it would be fun to make it look like they were swimming like a school of fish; I then created a separate painting of three goldfish swimming in the opposite direction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can see the matching painting \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kimtestone.com\/products\/school-of-thought-1-a-trompe-loeil-foodscape-painting\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"School of Thought 1 original acrylic trompe l'oeil painting by Kim Testone\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI painted these in large part on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/kim_testone_artist\" title=\"Artist Kim Testone's Twitch live painting streams\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003emy Twitch live streams\u003c\/a\u003e, and one very thoughtful viewer noted that if you turn the paintings or otherwise place them in different positions, they interact with each other in different ways (sometimes swimming in opposite directions, sometimes in the same direction, sometimes toward each other).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can watch some of the process for creating this piece on my \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@kimtestoneartist\" title=\"Artist Kim Testone's paintings on TikTok\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTikTok\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQuestions? Please feel free to \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kimtestone.com\/pages\/contact\" title=\"Contact Kim Testone.\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003econtact us here\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kim Testone Contemporary Still Life Painter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55676206055743,"sku":"OP-SOT2-1","price":475.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9301\/9711\/files\/schoolofthought24x4.jpg?v=1789933965","url":"https:\/\/kimtestone.com\/products\/school-of-thought-2-a-trompe-loeil-foodscape-painting","provider":"Kim Testone Contemporary Still Life Painter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}