Wet-on-Wet Flowers

I actually quite like this entry, and despite the protests, I think all of the colors are lovely together. I love how every flower and leaf is different, even though they are all created with a few marbling techniques. I absolutely agree with you that adding white food coloring to white icing is important when creating wet-on-wet designs. Flowers are one of my very favorite things to create with the wet-on-wet technique, so I am glad to see someone else shares my obsession!

Julia M. Usher posted:

So delicate and pretty! I really like the colors together, especially on the topmost one and the one directly to the left. Well done!

Ha! And my favorite is the bottom, center!

These are magnificent!

Love these! Beautiful!

very nice, love the colors

So beautiful!!❤️

So delicate and pretty! I really like the colors together, especially on the topmost one and the one directly to the left. Well done!

I had some leftover cookies and icing from two different sets, and I thought I'd have some fun and improvise a PBPC entry with what I had on hand. So the colors don't work perfectly together, though they're OK (coming from two different sets), and I was very much limited by the small volume of leftover icing: in some colors, I had hardly more than a tablespoon left. 

Since I am lazy (and because it wasn't convenient re- small icing quantities), I didn't adjust icing consistency and used the icing as it was: thin flood (dark green, orange, white), thick flood (turquoise, mustard, light blue) and piping (light green, medium green, brown). I thought the easiest would be with the thick flood, but I actually found working with the thin flood the easiest: for me, the wetter the better!

I usually plan and sketch all of my sets in advance, but I completely winged this one and improvised the designs as I worked - and am quite satisfied with them! I did however have quite a few issues with consistency - duh, if I hadn't used piping icing... - and with the fact that my colors were a bit transparent, especially the white, and that you can actually see the background icing through the wet-on-wet icing, occasionnally giving it an ugly color. I believe you really have to add white coloring to your icing if you want to use white for wet-on-wet on a darker colour.

All in all, I had fun (then again, I already knew I was one of these weird people who thoroughly enjoy weton-wet work), and I'll try to submit a second, more elaborate entry to the challenge later on!