I just bought “The Painted Cake” by Natasha Collins. I think it gives lots of good info on mixing colors and so forth. A great way to encourage yourself to paint on cakes is to start on paper. Start with an image and paper the same size. Fold both in fourths. Then keep with me, fold the image till only one square of the four can be seen. Paint each square individually. To make it even easier trick your brain by making sure the picture is being painted upside down. Part of intimidation with painting is the thought of painting the whole thing. If you trick your brain and paint it upside down your brain sees shapes vs say a cat. Once you realize you can paint then you will have more confidence and will see shapes instead of a whole to paint. Hope that makes sense.
