Hello All

I am doing a 3 tier hand painted cake this week and would really appriciate any tips and advice on painting on fondant

Many Thanks

Kirsty

Like what kind of painting? I do a lot of that, but it might not be the exact style or method you're looking to do. Do you have an example?

Hey! thank you for your reply.

 

The client want the cake to resemble Japanese tattoos, so its going to be a mix of strong lines and slight shading, I'm thinking of using greyscale and then splashes of colour, which need to have a shading effect/graduated colour effect

 

I want to keep it as classy as possible as I'm still building up my portfolio however need to deliver what the customer wants. I don't want it to look garish and so the painting needs to be elegant

 

any advice would be very gratefully received!

AIf you do the bold lines with cocoa butter and black colour you can do the thinner watercolour style with normal gel colours and vodka/dipping solution without smudging the lines :-) i prefer using dipping sol as it dries in seconds and you can keep working away.

Hope that helps :-)

Hello, That's absolutely fantastic advice, I wouldn't have even thought to do that, and smudging the black lines would be disastrous as I want a nice clean finish, Thank you!

So there are a lot of way to paint: airbrushing, take some gel color and add so vodka or lemon extract to make a water color affect, or take a plate and some gel coloring and some piping gel and slowly and the color to the gel and then paint it on the cake it will act a more like paint that way, you can sponge paint using a fake sponge NO really sponges, or can use some color dust and put it on the cake, But that is just some that I know of I hope this helps

 

here is some videos :

 

      Example of different ways to pant

          Example for the piping gel

           Example of the water paint look

         Example of how to airbrush a cake

 

              Example of sponge painting

              Example of color dust and about it

            Example of the dust into paint 

             A way to correct mistake from painting

WOW thank you, im now going to go through all the videos, thank you so much, its very kind of you!

I hope it helps find what your looking for.....

Check out the Hand Painted Cake on Craftsy too.  Erin is awesome.