summertime swoon: swirling 'ice cream' paint brushes by josé lourenço

smooth summertime vibes meet art supplies in this prismatic photo series by artist josé lourenço. ‘ice cream’ sees thick swirls of candy-colored paint pile atop brushes, becoming almost mouth-watering mashups of the edible and the undigestible. 

lourenço mixes together a vibrant array of pigments and paints to create subtly swirling color compositions. the vibrant daubs are then heavily dipped onto paint brushes and photographed against both natural and colorful backdrops. the resulting forms look good enough to eat. ice cream-like shapes seemingly ooze strawberry swirls, orange essence, and a punch of pineapple, when it’s actually just paint heightening our hunger…