Fantastic!!! You need to give us a tutorial on that grass…..OH MY WORD!! Excuse me, I've lost my manners…..Could you PLEASE do a tutorial on the grass??? The whole set is incredible. Another one for the top of my list of favorites for the challenge!!
Fantastic!!! You need to give us a tutorial on that grass…..OH MY WORD!! Excuse me, I've lost my manners…..Could you PLEASE do a tutorial on the grass??? The whole set is incredible. Another one for the top of my list of favorites for the challenge!!
Thank you so much for the lovely compliment! A tutorial might have to wait until I need to do grass again since I have a few projects in the works the next couple of weeks. How about a quick step by step suggested by the next commenter?
*I use glaze icing, which I know is different from many cookiers*
1. Begin with a completely dry flooded background of a medium to light green.
2. I used food coloring to paint shadows in darker areas around the edges of the pear cookie. I thin my food coloring with clear vanilla. This layer was pretty rough, and I didn't use a ton of color, just a light layer and smoothed it somewhat with a brush with no color, just a bit of water or extract. This layer helped to make a difference between the fairway and the green on that cookie. Allow to dry.
3. Then I began to layer in small dashes of painted on food coloring over the next two days or so. I used my smallest tiny paintbrush, and only thinned the food color slightly, just enough to make the strokes relatively smooth. I used two colors of green, and also mixed those colors occasionally to give a multi-dimensional look. I let it dry between each layer to maintain the look of individual leaves of grass. I did try to make my brush strokes go from bottom to top to give a consistent look.
4. I added in some lighter highlight grass leaves with a yellowy green. ...It had appeared too dark to me. I also extended the grass to go just a bit onto the horizon line. Allow to dry.
5. On the close up cookie with the golf ball and club I added tiny thin lines of outline thickness icing, just scattered around. I also did this in two different greens to accentuate the highlights in natural grass. When these 3D highlights were dry I went back and added some darker food coloring paint to the bases of lines for a shadow.
6. Ta Da! I treated these cookies like actual paintings. They were a bit of an experiment, and a test of my patience, as I usually just decorate after bedtime! Hooray for trying new cookie-ing things!
Yes, please! I'd really appreciate a tutorial or even a quick how-to on the grass.
You're too sweet! I took your suggestion and posted a (relatively) quick how to on the grass in the previous comment. I did my best to retrace my steps, hope this is useful!
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