A Message From Sue Gait

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Calling All Ontario OSCI’s

Would you be interested in coming for a Saturday class and learn what is taught at level 11?

I am thinking of putting together a class and show 3 projects form Level 11. And a surprise landscape. I’ll supply the canvas, and paint. 

 It would be in February on the 19^th from 9.30-4?

Cost would be $30.00

Your supplies would include your surfaces, paint plus brushes.

You would bring a lunch and I’ll supply beverages.

Your surfaces can be whatever you would like. But they must be primed and ready for class.  One must be painted black.

If you think you might be interested please email me back at forgreenthumbs@aol.com.

I need 6 people for this class to run.

Hand Painted Cakes

These days I really don't get much opportunity to One Stroke as much as I'd like to but I keep promising myself that I'll get back to it.

I could be more disciplined when I was teaching as I got to paint at least once a week!  The only thing I really get to paint right now are walls....and cakes of course.

Here is a little package cake that I did at Christmas.  I painted tiny red rosebuds on it like 'wrapping paper' and finished it with tiny stems and leaves in pale green.

The next cake is a 'candle cake' which I painted with silver scrolls using real silver dust and a #2 liner brush. Of course you have to remember to keep two sets of brushes, one that you would use for your usual crafting and acrylic paints and the other that you would use for cakes and edibles.

Lastly here we have a five tiered wedding cake that was first decorated with one stroke vines and leaves in sage and sunflower yellow to produce a two tone effect, not quite One Stroke, but almost.  

Then I placed hand made sugar flowers (peach roses and lilacs) and painted large sunflower type leaves over the top.

The One Stroke technique takes a little mastering when using edible food colours, painting on fondant and painting vertically in 'steps', but when it's done, it's amazingly fulfilling.

Sugar is abrasive and it ruins your brushes quickly, alas!  On the bright side, so long as you can find the correct flat brushes, they don't have to be traditional One Stroke brushes, simple Walmart or Dollar Store brushes will do.

My Own One Stroke Cake Stand

I painted that cake stand!  Yay!

A very fun evening at the Lou Hanson Studio just before Christmas with a whole bunch of cake decorating friends.  This was cake related, but a little departure from our 'norm'.  What a lot of fun.

Although this is actually pink rosebuds it matched the Christmas cake well and many people thought that it was a perfect compliment to the burgundy flowers and berries on this cake.  Go figure.