Golden Touch

Manu posted:

Perfect circles!

Thank you. Even after 48 of them, it's not that easy.

Perfect circles!

Bakerloo Station posted:

This entry makes 48 (!!!) circles that you have piped and flooded (so far) for this challenge! Wow!  I am glad you feel like you are improving with all of this practice! I do think these are your best flooded circles yet!

Thank you. It was Spring Break here, so I had a bit of time on my hands.

This entry makes 48 (!!!) circles that you have piped and flooded (so far) for this challenge! Wow!  I am glad you feel like you are improving with all of this practice! I do think these are your best flooded circles yet!

A rather minimalist honeycomb, but I think the yellow bases are a bit more circular than the previous ones I submitted. I did the hexagons in a tan icing and then handpainted them with gold dust (mixed with vodka so it would dry faster). I did the same with the bees. Then I went back over everything gold and yellow with just the gold dust, because I felt the painted gold was just a bit too flat. The camera doesn't pick it up, but it is a little more "lusterous" than just being painted. The hexagons have two layers of piping, trying to give more depth - again, the photo doesn't show that since it's from a top view. The wings of the bees were outlined in the tan icing and painted in gold. I thinned the gold down more and painted inside the wings. When they were dry, I used a brown food edible marker to make the veins inside the wings and also the antennae.