Only stencils for this project and three stenciling techniques: Royal icing Luster dust with sponge
I didn't add any additional medium, but I used a cutter to create a pattern on the stenciled center of the sunflowers. It is not a clean work, but today I couldn't find the right RI consistency, as you may have noticed on all the RI stenciled part. And also I had issues with flooding the cookie, it never dried as it is hot and wet in Milan! The edges are not straight and it was difficult to stencil the RI layer of grass, and also my watermark... my apologies to Belle and Kat, as I could have been somehow more precise. I loved stenciling the green background with luster dust and the sponge. I wanted to have the space behind the sunflowers filled with sunflower stems and leaves, like in a field, adding depth but without having a crowded effect. Same with the grass. I am overall pretty happy with the outcome, as this is something new for me. After stenciling with my homemade ones I was glad to have the ones made by experienced cookier!
The title recalls some cookies with sunflowers made last February:
Manu! What a spectacular addition this is to the challenge, and what a beautiful, beautiful cookie! I LOVE all of the process photos and how you used a combination of purchased and homemade stencils. And what a terrific idea to get your logo made into a stencil. Well done!
Manu! What a spectacular addition this is to the challenge, and what a beautiful, beautiful cookie! I LOVE all of the process photos and how you used a combination of purchased and homemade stencils. And what a terrific idea to get your logo made into a stencil. Well done!
Thank you Christine, I was about to write some clarifications... I wasn't expecting your prompt comment! I go preparing dinner and edit comment in about a hour.
Lovely! Great, Manu. I knew your entry was great. I was really looking forward to seeing yours. Now I am looking for sponge, is there any types of sponge suitable to stencil? Your name stencil is really cool.
Thank you, Julia! Yes, it has been in my mind during my vacation. As I couldn't decorate cookies I brought papers, pencil and plastic sleeves just in case I had time sketching and cutting stencils. Not sure the stencils worked out until today.
Lovely! Great, Manu. I knew your entry was great. I was really looking forward to seeing yours. Now I am looking for sponge, is there any types of sponge suitable to stencil? Your name stencil is really cool.
Thank you, Ryoko. As you know I baked the cookie before leaving for vacation, so it wasn't anyway supposed to be eaten. I used the sponge for washing dishes and cut in stripes, but you can find in the shops the sponges made for this purpose, it is a stick with a sponge at the edge.
this is beautiful Manu! excellent design and technique execution!
Thank you! There are lots of sunflowers fields in Italy during this period and they are my favourite flowers. In a first sketch in the first sketch there was more sky and hills, then I decided for a close-up.
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