3D Finalist 1
The Actress
by Heather Sherman · submitted Dec 8, 2016 · 2016 contest
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Description
OMG! It's Rainbow Sparkle Unicorn! I Loved You In Fairy Dream Adventure Part 7!"
This famous **ahem** "Lady" from the Pixar film "Inside Out" was quite the Challenge to Work With. The original Threadless design, was named "The Actress", but I had other names for her by the time we were done with this production. She truly stretched my comfort zone, with Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear and Anger all in attendance.
She is my third Rainbow Pega/Unicorn/type cake sculpture. Hmmmmm.....well, seemed apropos...
I started this project with a scale drawing. Then I bent wire to form, and built an armature on the pattern. The base board was mounted with feet on the bottom, and the base of the structure threaded thru the base. I hot-glued it into place, and the thoroughly food-safed the entire armature with plastic food-wrap stretch plastic and cornsyrup.
Several bits were set up in sugar gumpaste (FondX) and allowed to set up hard - parts like the legs of the chair, ears, horn, her latte cup. The mane was also set up on a curve mold and dusted with Magic Colours dusts. They also supplied the black food marker I used for the outlines in the entire piece, and the killer metallic pink paint for her horn <3
Next I made some modeling chocolate and some Gluten-Free Almond Vanilla cake. Oh, and of course some rainbow Swiss Meringue Buttercream! I baked in a big cookie sheet so no cutting of layers needed. The pics demo how I used circle cutters to cut her belly out of cake, stacked layered with rainbow buttercream. Trimmed a little to fit the curve, covered with a thin layer of white buttercream, then a thin layer of modeling chocolate that sets up nice and firm, including the head. The whole lady was then covered with FondX white fondant, nice and smooth.
The final details started. I added her eyes, and then her coffee-drinking arm, from fondant, using a cutout pattern throughout. I assembled the mane with colored gumpaste seperate and then attached it with a huge lump of fondant to the neck. The ears and horn had also been attached previously to the pink top-knot hair piece, which was then added seperately with another huge lump of fondant. Her script is made from a flexible icing sheet. Edible - my kids checked. I rolled and pasted on her tail from more rainbow gumpaste, to cover her support armature.
Then the hardest part began. I then attached the orange seat of her chair to her butt, allowed it to set, plastic wrapped. I then added the legs of the chair, propped up one at a time, braced and allowed to dry.
My fabulous photographer, Annette Slade Photography, is used to making food look like a superstar. The Actress shone on stage, and was even graceful under cutting, lifting her arm just enough to allow access to her tasty rainbow-cake filled belly.
I guess THATS where all those donuts she ate ended up....she was delicious
This was a incredibly fun and massively challenging project that really pushed my boundaries. I thank you, for taking time to look at, read about, and enjoy my Art. Like Rainbow Sparkle Unicorn, the Art takes Meaning from you having witnessed it.
More Huge Thanks to Caljava for their flexible FondX fondant and porcelain-like sugar Gumpaste. Thank you Magic Colours for their incredible gel colours, metallics, and food-marker. Vast Gratitude to Annette Slade Photography for the stellar final images. Final Appreciations to artist Alex Solis for the fabulous rendering of Miss Rainbow Sparkle at Threadless, and the fabulous artistic minds at Pixar for one of my new favorite movies <3
Original Threadless design: https://www.threadless.com/product/7354/The_Actress
#inside out
#disneybr /> #pixar #movies #film #cartoons #pop culture #rainbow unicorn #funny #lol #animals #mythical creatures #mythological animals #InsideOut
This famous **ahem** "Lady" from the Pixar film "Inside Out" was quite the Challenge to Work With. The original Threadless design, was named "The Actress", but I had other names for her by the time we were done with this production. She truly stretched my comfort zone, with Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear and Anger all in attendance.
She is my third Rainbow Pega/Unicorn/type cake sculpture. Hmmmmm.....well, seemed apropos...
I started this project with a scale drawing. Then I bent wire to form, and built an armature on the pattern. The base board was mounted with feet on the bottom, and the base of the structure threaded thru the base. I hot-glued it into place, and the thoroughly food-safed the entire armature with plastic food-wrap stretch plastic and cornsyrup.
Several bits were set up in sugar gumpaste (FondX) and allowed to set up hard - parts like the legs of the chair, ears, horn, her latte cup. The mane was also set up on a curve mold and dusted with Magic Colours dusts. They also supplied the black food marker I used for the outlines in the entire piece, and the killer metallic pink paint for her horn <3
Next I made some modeling chocolate and some Gluten-Free Almond Vanilla cake. Oh, and of course some rainbow Swiss Meringue Buttercream! I baked in a big cookie sheet so no cutting of layers needed. The pics demo how I used circle cutters to cut her belly out of cake, stacked layered with rainbow buttercream. Trimmed a little to fit the curve, covered with a thin layer of white buttercream, then a thin layer of modeling chocolate that sets up nice and firm, including the head. The whole lady was then covered with FondX white fondant, nice and smooth.
The final details started. I added her eyes, and then her coffee-drinking arm, from fondant, using a cutout pattern throughout. I assembled the mane with colored gumpaste seperate and then attached it with a huge lump of fondant to the neck. The ears and horn had also been attached previously to the pink top-knot hair piece, which was then added seperately with another huge lump of fondant. Her script is made from a flexible icing sheet. Edible - my kids checked. I rolled and pasted on her tail from more rainbow gumpaste, to cover her support armature.
Then the hardest part began. I then attached the orange seat of her chair to her butt, allowed it to set, plastic wrapped. I then added the legs of the chair, propped up one at a time, braced and allowed to dry.
My fabulous photographer, Annette Slade Photography, is used to making food look like a superstar. The Actress shone on stage, and was even graceful under cutting, lifting her arm just enough to allow access to her tasty rainbow-cake filled belly.
I guess THATS where all those donuts she ate ended up....she was delicious
This was a incredibly fun and massively challenging project that really pushed my boundaries. I thank you, for taking time to look at, read about, and enjoy my Art. Like Rainbow Sparkle Unicorn, the Art takes Meaning from you having witnessed it.
More Huge Thanks to Caljava for their flexible FondX fondant and porcelain-like sugar Gumpaste. Thank you Magic Colours for their incredible gel colours, metallics, and food-marker. Vast Gratitude to Annette Slade Photography for the stellar final images. Final Appreciations to artist Alex Solis for the fabulous rendering of Miss Rainbow Sparkle at Threadless, and the fabulous artistic minds at Pixar for one of my new favorite movies <3
Original Threadless design: https://www.threadless.com/product/7354/The_Actress
#inside out
#disneybr /> #pixar #movies #film #cartoons #pop culture #rainbow unicorn #funny #lol #animals #mythical creatures #mythological animals #InsideOut
