Hey- it's very easy to paint with food coloring gel as long as you have something to mix it with that has a very high alcohol content. For example, I use vodka---the alcohol evaporates, leaving the color--very quickly.
Some extracts have a high alcohol content--I know that peppermint extract does...and I'm sure some others do too. Just paint as if it were watercolors.
it might go easier is you mix it with some vodka. or you can mix dusts (like lustre, pearl or petal depending on the look you want) with vodka and pait that on. you can use them dry too for a different look.
xx
Colored piping gel works very well also. Paints on easily w/ a paint brush and dries completely.
vodka is better than water, it dries faster, and you wont risk it doing mushy things to your surface either.
id just use whatever you have handy, if its gel or dust.
xx
I've used airbrush paint to paint (w/ a brush, I don't have an airbrush) on gumpaste & fondant, I've found that it dries faster than the gel stuff, even when the gel stuff has been thinned w/ vodka (it can take a long time to dry!). I've also pained w/ chalk dust, you can buy a big thing of no-toxic chald (not technically edible, but then who eats gum paste lol!) at Michaels for $5.
If you look at my photos, all my teacups (lots of practice, thats why so many!) are gumpaste hand painted. I tried using plain icing color, worked but took forever to dry, then I diluted it with a little vodka, I used a very thin lining brush and had a sm flat brush for shading. The vodka was the ticket, just a tiny bit though to thin it out.
So you are just using like the wilton icing paste coloring? and adding the vodka? or is there a different type of food coloring you are using? Thank you for letting me know.
Kathy
I like americolor personally because I don't have to use a toothpick, lol but I have used Wilton as well. Also when you paint make sure you let it dry completely (I find it stays tacky for a while). I also noticed that if I added more vodka (I like using everclear) or extract that the paint looked more like watercolour painting.
Yep, any of the wilton icing colors worked for me. If you have a dropper, I think its easier to add the vodka to make the consistency you want. I didnt and tried adding from the cap, kept getting too much vodka in it.
Ditto on the vodka. If you pour too much, just wait a little while and some of it will evaporate off.
This is the closest thread I've found so far for my question, but I needed to know if theres anything else apart from alcohol that I could use to mix colour. I don't deal with alcohol, and not allowed to either! So was hoping for an alternative. Does anyone have any suggestions?
TIA
You can use lemon extract, but i believe that's made from alcohol?
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