Dwight Smith

Cookie Ride, Original Painting

2024

Artist Comments
This vibrant still-life watercolor captures the essence of indulgence and a healthy lifestyle. Painted in the realist tradition, the piece showcases chocolate cookies with vanilla cream centers resting on a bike rack. The sentiment is clear: "Don't count calories; count your miles."

About the Artist
Dwight Smith depicts commonplace objects with a sense of playfulness and humor. His watercolor still life paintings appear conventional in their soft colors and composed compositions, but upon further observation the juxtaposition of unrelated items make for delightfully surprising combinations and comparisons. This transformation of the everyday, and strong graphic style, lend the work a pop feel. However, pop art is generally cool and ironic. Instead, there is a familiar and comforting sense of kitsch and Americana in Dwight’s subjects. In a similar fashion to the work of American artist Wayne Thiebaud, Dwight paints food and sweets of the American appetite. Doughnuts, hotdogs, and lollipops are captured in all of their potent delight. He plays with scale and composition to bring out a sense of the absurd, but ultimately his goal is to make the viewer smile.

Words that describe this painting: panoramic, culinary, food, dessert, bike, cookie, bicycle, paper, sports, surrealism, cuisine, representational, watercolor painting, white

Cookie Ride
Dwight Smith
Watercolor painting on paper
Ready to frame
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front
2024
9 in. h x 18 in. w
0 lbs. 2 oz.