Mama and Babies

I cut my own stencils, and typically use them to airbrush. I wanted to try techniques that I don’t normally work with and get out of my “comfort zone.” This was a challenge! I decided to not use my stencil gene or my airbrush as those are my primary tools I work with every day, aside from the stencils themselves.

I used to love painting with watercolors and have not done so in years. I used multiple tones of blue, green, and purple Americolor gels for the background and foreground, diluting it to give it depth with almond extract. I then used salt to try to create some texture, as this is a technique I had learned years ago in my watercolor classes. I also added a little shimmer with some metalics in the paints.

I have never used a dobber on a stencil and wanted to see the effect of using royal icing and a dobber to create the tree line. Normally I would have used an airbrush, so this was new and therefore a great challenge for me. I thought that it would give me a good texture for the trees to boot. I found that I had to use a thinner icing than stiff consistency, which is what I had started with. It wouldn’t come off the sponge! I did find it difficult to be able to do additional layers as the texture made it difficult to keep the next stencils flat.

I used the “smear” method (for lack of a better term) and a stencil for the animals and front grass. And I created confetti snowflakes with yet another stencil and applied them later as transfers with some royal icing. I loved this project and am quite happy with the outcome!

How sweet! Love ❤️❤️❤️

Salt? How Interesting! Loved reading your comments and methods, they turned out really well. Great stencils too

Loved the texture you created with RI for the trees. I know what you mean when you said you wanted to add some more layers but then the stencil wasn't flat. I had the same problem with my sunflower cookie, as after I stenciled the stems it was hard to stencil leaves and then grass and then watermark. But that experience helped me to divide in layers and make thing easier in my second entry. I think that you had a really nice outcome here, even without adding more layers. 

Manu posted:

Loved the texture you created with RI for the trees. I know what you mean when you said you wanted to add some more layers but then the stencil wasn't flat. I had the same problem with my sunflower cookie, as after I stenciled the stems it was hard to stencil leaves and then grass and then watermark. But that experience helped me to divide in layers and make thing easier in my second entry. I think that you had a really nice outcome here, even without adding more layers. 

Thank you for your comment. I wanted to have several layers of trees, but decided I would have run out of cookie and no room to add the deer if I put any more!  

Great 

Kat Rutledge-Ibicci posted:

Salt? How Interesting! Loved reading your comments and methods, they turned out really well. Great stencils too

Thank you! I figured since they were for practice, it wouldn't matter if they were on the salty side My kids will eat them any way! I used rock sea salt, I wonder if sugar would do the same effect. 

Excelente!