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Location: Seattle
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 Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 11:58 am Post subject: Good Enough to Eat? |
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have a client who wanted "pastry portraits" for the bedroom of her
teenage daughter. Her daughter is a dedicated pastry cook at 17.....has
attended several culinary institutes already, and, lucky girl, knows
that she wants to do this for her career.
Anyhow, the mother wanted very realistic pastries against green
and salmon backgrounds to hang from large moire salmon pink ribbons in
her daughter's room. She also wanted some sort of frame around each
specific pastry, and she wanted the frames gold leafed.
I called in my friend Cathy Connor to help me with the "icing"
around the 8 ply mat boards (which I supported with 8 ply mat board
strips in the back. Cathy, among one of her many talents, has studied
pastry making and had her own bakery for years, so she whipped out the
designs in record time. She folded up her pastry tubes with parchment
paper and used Golden modeling paste.
Now all I have to do is tighten up my rendering and gold leaf the
edges. Another odd and interesting project in the world of decorative
painting.
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What a fantastic project! So beautifully rendered as well. You must let us know your client's reaction!
Posted by: Fauxology | May 02, 2009 at 09:42 AM