Since discovering that I could paint onto a cake….I’ve been dying to try out a design Inspired by one of my favorite artists Leonid Afremov. I love the movement and feeling of motion he captures in his paintings. I wanted to give the same feeling to this figure painting. The cake uses several mediums to achieve the textured look…..a combination of wet thin royal icing, stiffer royal icing, gel colors both diluted and undiluted and coco butter. The cake was painted in three different layers to build up the texture and other used a combination of brushes and knives to apply the strokes.

My style is definitely not as meticulous as some of the cake painters I admire so much….but I truly loose myself when I take a brush to a cake…and I never know where the painting will take me. I hope you enjoy my haphazard approach.