the illustrious artist, cj hendry has made a prominent name for herself when she sold one of her pieces to kanye west, but she has just completed a brand new venture   and it's delicious the 27 year old from brisbane has pushed her artistic limit by locked herself in a room for 50 consecutive days to produce an artwork every 24 hours and publishing them to her social media accounts as proof the hyper realistic images are part of her melbourne based exhibition '50 foods in 50 days,' which was coined after cj read accounts from inmates who were on death row hyper realist artist cj hendry locked herself in a room for 50 days to achieve a drawing every 24 hours  she admits that the drawing of the octopus was the most laborious to complete in the time frame  each image depicts food items such as m&m's placed on a luxurious porcelain hermes plate  cj uses felt tip pens and a sketching style that incorporates scribbling tiny circles to get the desired effect  she was inspired to create 50 meals on stunning hermes plates, to juxtapose the luxurious platters with basic food items, believing that if she were ever to be served a final meal, she would want it one of these plates the images depict food items such as doritos, m&m's, liquorice allsorts, assorted seafood and even fortune cookies on lavish porcelain dinner plates according to broadsheet, each image has been hand drawn by cj with felt tip pens onto 75 x 75 cm canvases and cost $8800 however, every single piece – which adds up to half a million dollars in artwork, has already been sold to destinations all over the world, some even being sold before she started them each piece costs $8800, however all the pieces have been sold prior to the melbourne exhibition  the 27 year old from brisbane has sold drawings to the likes of kanye west, vera wang and david caruso  before methodically drawing the images, cj takes up to 100 photographs of the items in different lighting  the beauty is in her attention to detail, with each image comparable to a black and white photograph  cj advertises her pieces to her 200,000 followers on instagram on other social media platforms  14 have gone to hong kong, four have gone to singapore and the rest to america, the united arab emirates, london or remained in australia the beauty in cj's work is the unique attention to detail, with every image comparable to a black and white photograph she has admitted that her technique involves scribbling in little circles to get the desired effect her images rose to fame a mere two years ago with her journey being nurtured by the founder of the design blog the cool hunter, bill tikos cj began by drawing images of crumpled chanel and prada shopping bags as well as everyday static items such as boots, boxing gloves and playing cards cj drew her inspiration from inmates on death row receiving their final meal  the images have gone to hong kong, singapore, america, the united arab emirates, london and australia  the drawing aim to juxtapose the luxury of a hermes plate with an inexpensive food item like licoqorice  the exhibition will run from march 27th to april 12th at a pop up gourmet food store at 166 gertrude st fitzroy  interest in her pieces has mostly been through instagram, as her 200,000 followers has given her a wide audience to advertise to as well as kanye west, she has sold pieces to celebrities like vera wang and david caruso and some images have gone for $50,000 for each piece, cj takes up to 100 photographs of the items placed in different lighting and positions she then methodically copies the photographs using shading techniques her '50 foods in 50 days' exhibition will run from march the 27th to april the 12th at a pop up gourmet food store at 166 gertrude st fitzroy in melbourne
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cj hendry from brisbane has completed an amazing exhibition in 50 days  the artist locked herself in a room and produced an artwork every 24 hours  she posted each drawing to her social media accounts as proof  it is called '50 foods in 50 days' and relates to the last meal on death row  each depicts a hyper realistic drawing of a food item on a hermes plate  cj has sold pieces to kanye west, vera wang and david caruso 