Kim Testone Art

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Acrylic life painter of whimsical food-themed art. All paintings are from reference models and are 100% human-made, No AI. Prints can be purchased on my website: kimtestone.com Learn more about my art and process on my blog: makinghappyart.com

A woman is sitting in her art studio holding a try of Halloween cookies piled up. The cookies are an assortment of black cats, jack-o'-lanterns, and ghosts.
A print of an acrylic pile painting featuring several different colors of Gummy Bears.
A woman holding a 24" by 24" acrylic trompe l'oeil painting. The painting is a series of cookies over a frosting background depicting a horse in front os a barn standing in a field of flowers with a monarch butterfly in the sky. The frosting makes up both the blue sky and green grass. There are white cloud cookies floating over the scene.
A woman sitting in her studio with a pallet on her lap. She's holding three small desert paintings consisting of frosting, an ice cream cone, and roasted marshmallows. Behind her on a bench are two more ice cream paintings and another painting of frosting.
A woman sitting in her art studio with a pint of ice cream. She has paintings of ice cream and frosting on the bench behind her.
A woman painting a very realistic ice cream cone with chocolate sauce, sprinkles, and a cherry on top. The painting is in acrylic on a large panel.
A woman wearing a PBS graphic t-shirt sitting in her art studio with acrylic paintings sitting on a bench behind her.
A woman sitting in her studio with a pallet in her lap and several small painting on a bench behind her.
A woman holding an oil painting of a man working at a concession stand. She is standing in front several other paintings.
A woman in a white dress with a red rose print holding an acrylic trompe l'oeil painting. The painting contains cookies, frosting, and lollypops arranged to look like a house and yard on a sunny day.
A woman sitting in her art studio with a palette on her lap. She's sitting next to a camera and several painting are drying behind her on a bench.
A woman painting a very realistic strawberry ice cream sundae in acrylic on a large board.
Twelve different prints of ice cream desserts painted in acrylic are displayed on a white background.
A woman in a blue dress holding an acrylic trompe l'oeil painting. The painting contains cookies, pretzel sticks, and frosting arranged to look like blue birds singing in a tree. Two of the bird cookies are in a nest made from a sugar cone.
A print of a vanilla ice cream cone with sprinkles and a cherry on top originally painted in acrylic.
A woman is painting in her studio with her palette on her lap. She is working on a painting of a vanilla ice cream sugar cone covered in chocolate and peanuts. Behind her is a painting of cookies made to look like a horse standing in a flowery field in front of a barn.
A woman in a white dress with a red rose print holding an acrylic trompe l'oeil painting. The painting contains cookies, frosting, and lollypops arranged to look like a house and yard on a sunny day.
The photo shows an a mini print of a house made out of pretzel sticks with a a green lawn and blue sky made of frosting. The clouds in the sky are cookies with white frosting. The same image is on a greeting card to the right of the print and they are sitting on top of a message from the artist along with the envelope they come in.
A woman in a white dress with a red rose print is sitting on a bench next to an acrylic trompe l'oeil painting. The painting contains cookies, frosting, and lollypops arranged to look like a house and yard on a sunny day.
Four framed paintings of various ice cream treats are hanging on a wall.
The photo shows an assortment of six mini prints featuring ice cream of various kinds.
This acrylic trompe l’oeil painting is based on a real-life gingerbread-frosting model that I baked and decorated…then I spent many hours painting thin overlapping layers of acrylic on panel. The painting is totally flat, but looks very dimensional. It is inspired by growing up near the railroad tracks in my small rural hometown, and waiting in the car with my family at the tracks as the rare passenger trains went by. I always thought that it must be so magical to ride in those lit-up cars.
The gingerbread/frosting model is about three feet long, the painting is four feet long and is totally flat. It is super-detailed and took me hundreds of hours to paint. Baking and decorating a real-life model is very time-consuming, but it’s necessary and gives my painting a much more human quality, I think. Hope it made you smile!
Video clips of my process for painting a trompe l’oeil-style work based on a real life cookie and frosting model.
Painting process for my latest cookie landscape painting…show at Hidell Brooks Gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina, March 2026.
Showing all angles of my butterflies cookie painting, a flat acrylic painting, to prove its flat. But I hope it’s kind of magical!
Close up tour of my realistic acrylic painting of cookie butterflies in a landscape of frosting. The painting is totally flat.
Me with a butterfly yarn piece I made at age three, and a recent painting I did at age….hmmmm
Video shows me painting Strawberry Scoops, an original pre allistic painting of an ice cream cone, followed by an image of the signed mini print you can get via snail mail.
Painting process so far for my latest cookie landscape painting, The Daydreamer, acrylic on panel, 24”x24”.
In progress: The Daydreamer, acrylic on panel, 24”x24”. For my show next year at Hidell Brooks Gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Acrylic painting in progress of a horse, barn, clouds, flowers and grass, painted to look like a three-dimensional cookie/frosting landscape sculpture.
Get the mini Strawberry Scoops ice cream print when you sign up for my new Mini Print Club. From my original 2025 painting.