Help! Need To Paint White On Royal Blue Fondant!
Decorating By heatherlikesfood Updated 20 Jun 2006 , 4:15am by heatherlikesfood
Last night I tried painting on my royal blue colored fondant with white ( powdered color and lemon extract). It went on opaque and looked good, but then it started cracking and showing the blue underneath- kind of like an antiqued look- cool effect, but not what I want! Does anybody have any better way to paint white on dark colors? Thanks!
You can use the AmeriColor white gel on the blue fondant, and I think that will work.
I thought it was just me. I am in the middle of a big painting project for a wedding cake I'm doing. I've been painting on gumpaste in lots of different colors (not just light on dark) and I've found that no matter what the color is, the petal dust (matte colors) paint tends to crack when it dries while luster and pearl paint does not.
So to get around this, I've been mixing the petal dusts with luster dusts. This works better, but you need to be sure that your proportions are mostly luster or pearl to petal. If you have some pearl dust, you could do a mix of white and pearl.
If anyone knows of another way to deal with this I'd love to hear it. The gel might work on fondant, but I can't use that on my gumpaste pieces.
instead of extracts try using a little glycerin. The paint film will be a little bit more elastic (takes a bit longer to dry too but it will dry) I would use it only for your white colors n such. Or you could make up a batch of white royal icing with white coloring in it (needs to be opaque) The "paint" will have a little more texture, kinda like "oil" paint but you will be able to get the effect that you are looking for; opaque white on a dark background.
For the most part though, painting on fondant or bc is more like painting in watercolors, you need to preserve the white of the support (whether it's paper or fondant or what have you) to keep the white white as it were. Then you paint your colors arond the white areas that you want to keep white. In watercolor painting you go from light to dark whereas in oil or acrylic painting you can go from dark to light. It's just the way the medium acts. (medium being either luster dusts or paint or frosting or airbrush colors).
I know long and confusing but for each technique there is a method. And painting on cakes is not unlike painting on canvas or paper.
thankyou thankyou thankyou to all that replied- that helps alot! I will try it out!
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