I won't be taking up a career as a painter. Bah!

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT??? Your cake is GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think you are being too hard on yourself.

Ashlee

:thwak:

a polite hit up oneside the head to adjust the bad attitude.

That cake is GREAT!

Ack! I think it looks really bad. Maybe I should post a more detailed pic.

Ok Doug, you hold her while I slap!!!

Lady Miss Thing... that looks great. You don't have to be Van Gogh to make it look beautiful!! I love it.

It looks very nice to me. I know when I painted some bamboo on a wedding cake I made I thought it looked horrendous, but everyone else seemed to really like it. So maybe it's that instinct to always want better.

Ok. Here's a closer look. I know it's not a disaster, I just don't think that it looks very good (or is missing something).

Btw- I'll bend over for the next slap!

Bend over... I don't see where the problem is

Still pretty from here...

I think it looks great! You are definitely being too hard on yourself-- to add a little something more, you could always make some tiny 3-d fondant blossoms here and there among the painted on ones-

But I think its simple and pretty now.

I still love it!

Um yes, I can totally see the problem now. Yessss... it's like, totally ugly and stuff...

Aw come on... have some faith in you!! I like it. I think it's lovely and if you delivered it to me, I'd be pleased. And I'm a critic. Seriously. Things rarely meet my expectations!

Gee, wished I could paint that badly! Would you mind showing us just how you "slapped" that on there?

That is just a beautiful cake.

Now, let the spankings begin!!!!

Ooooh, this thread is getting feisty... I'm staying here!

Ok... ok! I'm going to sit in the corner now but at least I can say "Made ya look!"

You sure did! It worked!

Sit??? you're gonna sit after all those spankins???? hmmmmph...

Well, I've solved your problem! FIRST I think your cake is GREAT! BUT, since you DON'T, I'm going to e-mail a copy to MY PAINTING INSTRUCTOR and see what SHE says! Pretty sure she will say....THAT IS AMAZING!! I can't BELIEVE that you can actually PAINT on a cake!

Back with your answer when she returns the e-mail!

Beth in KY

The painting looks beautiful. I can see how you want a little something b/c we're always used to cakes having stuff stick out. Just put something on top or some borders for dimension. Or you can run the painting up to the top. But the painting and the smoothing look great!!!!!

I'd better be careful. Doug just might have a wooden spoon long enough to reach me from Lumberton.

If it really bugs you, you could put some darker centers in the flowers to give a more detailed look. Or perhaps some lighter pistils?

To me it looks as good as the other cakes I've seen like that. I think it looks nice. Maybe the white background makes you think it doesn't seem complete? But like everyone else says, it's very nice. How did it taste?

Keep up the great work!

At first glance I thought you were talking about the wall . So here I am like a goofball squinting at your wall trying for the life of me to find something wrong with the paint which of course I did not. The reason why I was doing all this was because you couldn't have possibly been talking about the cake. It's just beautiful.

the lighter/darker color suggestions would just give it a little dimension - as would some tiny blossoms...but only if you wanted to....that cake is perfectly lovely as is. And I'm impressed that you're sitting after all the whippings!!

It looks wonderful to me! You shouldn't be so hard on yourself. We are our own worst critics and see flaws that nobody else sees.

i still dont see a disaster here, i wish i were half as good as you

hehehehe cherrybomb wooden spoon, I SWORE I would never share that part of of my logo story but I might have to someday, I thought only alabamians got beat with wooden spoons Good LAWD my mama must have broke a million on my backside growing up, and thank the lord for pampered chef, cause theirs are virtually unbreakable or so my sisters little one says every time she enters the $ tree and sees the bag o spanking spoons, hehehehehehhehehe!

oh and by they way, the cake is beautifully done.... great job!