Starting my Quest to get Good at Painting Cheese

So I have no money to afford to buy nice cheese, and none of the facilities to make a nice aged cheese…so I chose the next best thing!

I’ve been converted to the cheese obsession sometime last year or maybe two years ago when I experienced the Trader Joe’s Toscano, then my partner and I were fortunate enough to take a trip to Ireland and tried a myriad of incredible cheeses, my favorite being Coolea, clonmore, and we were even able to try cacio barricato (I never knew cheeses could be spicy). Ever since I’ve been obsessed with researching cheeses, looking at cheeses, looking at this subreddit, and planning out the next cheese I’ll eat when I have money. I feel like it’s a fun obsession to have. Coincidentally I’ve also been in an artistic slump for a few years now. Believe it or not the cheese brought me back.

Cheeses are so much fun to draw? I’m still shaking the rust off so the painting is a bit rough but I was filled with no dread while painting? Only cheese based joy. This one was semi imagination, semi study of aged cheddar -although the blue did some unexpected blending with the yellows so it’s kind of its own thing now lol.