Toast Masters!

Georgina Taylor, Lynette Williams, and Jackie Graves are whipped into action by Peter Simpson on the toast production line.

NADC Diploma of Fine Art Year 2 students are working on a collaborative experimental drawing with a difference. Based on an image by American realist painter Edward Hopper, the student's version has a twist: it will be made of toast.

In collaboration with their drawing teacher, Di Holdsworth, the students  have planned a toast mural some 4  metres long. With over 90 loaves of bread to toast to different shades in order to represent the different tones in the image, the students soon realised that their domestic toasters may not be quite up to the job.

Peter Simpson, Operations Manager, Tourism and Hospitality at Nepean College was enlisted to help the students, assisting the students to toast 56 slices of bread at a time in the College's commercial kitchen.

With some difficulties arising in obtaining a rich  (burnt) black, a decision has been made to use vegemite on some of the toast to achieve the darkest tone.

Watch this space for more images of the toast drawing as it develops!