Across the nation these past few years, gypsy food trucks have become a real trend. In city after city, trucks selling tacos, pizza, sandwiches, ice cream, and all kinds of other goodies have become a common sight. In Des Moines, these vendors move from location to location through the week, so you have a chance to sample a lot of different kinds of food, and you get to watch all kinds of people.
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| "Tacos," oil, 8x10, 2017 |
Here's a taco truck, set up in a parking lot not far from a manufacturing plant. They've thoughtfully brought out a couple of tables. This is oil, 8x10 on panel.
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| "Two Food Vendors, Uptown Art Fair 2015," watercolor, 3.5x10 |
Besides their routine setups, a lot of these food trucks participate in special events like arts festivals. These two were parked not far from my booth during the Uptown Art Festival in the Twin Cities a couple of years back. Food trucks are probably my favorite part of arts festivals. Both of these sold yummy food. I drew them in pencil, painted with watercolor and then touched them up here and there with ink.
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| "Fiery," watercolor, 3.5x9, 2016 |
Finally, here's another watercolor and ink of a food vendor parked near our downtown sculpture garden. I was particularly attracted by the flames painted on their van.
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