European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June stars and stripes Page 19 Colorado Springs Jason Baalman holds a painting he made from using Trench Fries As Baalman has gone from struggling portrait artist to youtube d for Art youtube sensation paints with chocolate syrup if a child did it in a portrait he recorded himself which he did in about two his mom would slap him on painting Ronald Mcdonald and mor Tim elapsed into a four minute the but Jason Baalman was play Gan creator of the fast food ing with his food on a recent episode of documentary super size using late show with David Baalman has gone from a struggling portrait artist in old Colorado to a youtube sensation in just the past few internet Fame landed him on the lat night talk where he painted a picture of stage manager Biff Hend Erson in using French Fries for paint its a goof on a comedy but Baalman says he did his Best to create a Quality i didst want to be the person that was doing something stupid for Atten Baalman of course it is i Why would you paint with Ketchup and French Fries it is but i didst want it to be Only something the whole experience still feels Odd to a who started Ketchup and with his youtube views went from a couple Hundred a week to Mil it was just something that would it was just something that would attract a Little More attention than just a Pencil or a Jason on Why he first tried painting with food attract a Little More attention than just a Pencil or a Baalman i was just trying to use it As a marketing tool mat potential clients could it became its own a video of Baalman painting with chocolate syrup and a spoon was also a but his real smash was a video showing him drawing the Mono Lisa using the paint Utility that been a Standard accessory in Microsoft win everyone tried to use paint and Hes also done a series of portraits of famous youtube including an upcoming project of an australian youtube done with vegemite on As successful As All of this has been Baalman now has a huge backlog of portrait orders Hes aware he could be typecast As the Guy who paints with it entertains me and it entertains other he some times i feel that it has pigeonholed in new people kept asking him How Long Hes done Ketchup and i was this is the third one Ive Baalman to its just a different but i dont want to be known As the Ketchup Baalman has no formal Art training he grew up in Houston and studied Dows for posting videos on an internet paint is something that everyone biome Chical engineering at the universe video As a Way of promoting his familiar he said of the to of Southern then worked in internet marketing in los he moved to Colorado Springs in 2001 to help his who own the Rocky Mountain chocolate factory around the Corner from his and became an artist on the Side notably painting and repainting the Large mural on the Side of the chocolate Baalman plans to make posters of his original Ketchup Art and sell them to Benefit the global poverty Chari to Hes also thinking about inviting other local artists to Post their own videos on his Corner of the Letterman show Baalman said it was stressful balancing painting his portrait while a director talked in his Henderson stole French Fries and the cameras turned on and it was Rush and he it was very difficult to do the he thinks he did Henderson proud in the i knew they were trying to make fun of me and that the purpose was to try to make a funny he my whole goal was to do something that would be impressive to you can see Otner Baalman works at q i d St d 8 q o co cd o