Threadcake 2016, "The Actress" - 12/8/16 -
If you don't know Threadcakes, let me introduce you. Threadcakes was a Online Cake Competition, one of the very first. They hinged upon the Tshirt company, Threadless. Threadless is still going VERY strong, even amidst the flooding of recent years of print-upon demand companies. Threadless is the Original.
To participate in Threadcakes you needed to choose a Design from the catalog and recreate it, in Cake, to the best of your abilities. You were ti use REAL CAKE, and document the creation process so that it could be demonstrated beyond a doubt. Ypu were then required, by the rules, to Eat Your Cake, and photograph it as part of Submitted Materials. For those unfamiliar with this competition, lets just say that it was considered quite the X Games of Cake at the time, and to place was a huge honor. I'd love to tell you to go Check It Out, but sadly the links are 404. I guess you will have to be happy (for now) with the video I made at the time, posted below, for you.
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.
Sadly She did not place with this, the final Threadcakes 2016. I have compiled a Video Below for you of the required in-progress photos that were required for submission.
If you don't know Threadcakes, let me introduce you. Threadcakes was a Online Cake Competition, one of the very first. They hinged upon the Tshirt company, Threadless. Threadless is still going VERY strong, even amidst the flooding of recent years of print-upon demand companies. Threadless is the Original.
To participate in Threadcakes you needed to choose a Design from the catalog and recreate it, in Cake, to the best of your abilities. You were ti use REAL CAKE, and document the creation process so that it could be demonstrated beyond a doubt. Ypu were then required, by the rules, to Eat Your Cake, and photograph it as part of Submitted Materials. For those unfamiliar with this competition, lets just say that it was considered quite the X Games of Cake at the time, and to place was a huge honor. I'd love to tell you to go Check It Out, but sadly the links are 404. I guess you will have to be happy (for now) with the video I made at the time, posted below, for you.
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.
Sadly She did not place with this, the final Threadcakes 2016. I have compiled a Video Below for you of the required in-progress photos that were required for submission.
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.
Thenn Photography!! 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 #disney #pixar #movies #film #cartoons #pop culture #rainbow unicorn #funny #lol #animals #mythical creatures #mythological animals #InsideOut
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.
Thenn Photography!! 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 #disney #pixar #movies #film #cartoons #pop culture #rainbow unicorn #funny #lol #animals #mythical creatures #mythological animals #InsideOut
