How To Achieve This Painted Look On Buttercream?
Decorating By LindsayH Updated 4 Aug 2018 , 10:20pm by me_me1
I love these painted cakes! Does anyone have experience with either of these techniques?
The first one looks like watercolor. Food coloring painted directly on the buttercream maybe? I wonder if that would have to be crusting buttercream to work. How do you keep it from bleeding?
The second one looks more like an oil painting. I can't tell if the buttercream is colored or if the color is painted on and then the texture added.
Any suggestions?
Both of them appear to be painted with colored buttercream being used like paint.
I was going to say the same thing as Sandra, they look like they were painted in buttercream.
P.S Theses cakes make me want to take an art class and see if anyone can teach me to paint or draw lol.
bubs1stbirthday, I wish I could give you a drawing or painting class. I discovered long ago that the secret to drawing is not in your hand, but in your brain and your eye. Take an object, say and apple, and set it in front of you. Study it's shape. It is not the preconceived round ball that you first think of, but a unique shape, larger at the top than at the bottom, that is uniquely apple. Don't rush, take your time and understand what you are seeing. The more you train your eye to observe, the better you can draw. I hope this helps :o)
I will give it a go when I get some time to myself :-) Thank you, I am very methodical - everything has to have a reason and I need to be able to explain it step by step in my head, I think this kind of stops any artistic side of my brain from coming in to play lol.
Just sneaking on to CC for a few minutes while we have breaky then it's time for us to finish plastering our bathroom (funnily enough, all the time I have spent learning to smooth cakes is coming in very handy at the moment lol).
Thanks again for the advice! Have a great day!
Haha! I learned smoothing sparkling first. Can't say that it helped that much with getting a perfect cake! I think drywall is easier!
These cake skills come in handy!! I helped grout a bathroom and my tiler boyfriend started to give me tips, saw what I was doing and said 'you're fine, you know what you're doing'.
For the birdie cakes, I would colour the buttercream first and add the texture as I was 'painting'. I just put dollops of plain uncoloured buttercream in little bowls, add my colouring and then apply with a small palette knife. You would just be doing more actual painting brushstroke sort of movements for the birds though.
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