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