EDIBLE GEMS

If you get some molds and spray them with cooking spray then it will prevent the gems from sticking when you try to get them out. You don't have to do this if you're using silicone molds. Melt the sugar at 260-275 degrees F and then pour the mixture into the molds and wipe away any access. When they've cooled and set you can take them out and they should be hard, shiny and clear and you can dust them with edible dust to add an extra shine. A problem with this is that if you don't control the temperature right then you're sugar may turn yellow. Another ingredient you could use instead from sugar and probably a better option is to use isomalt as it will always stay clear. A disadvantage of the isomalt is that consuming too much of it can give you a bad stomach, although small amounts are perfectly fine.

Buttercream Flower Tips

You start with a piping bag with the tip size 150 and stiff consistency butter-cream icing. Hold bag at 

90° angle at 6:00. You should start piping at edge of cupcake and work toward the center. Pipe a 

left-cupped petal, then a right- cupped petal.

Move the tip down about halfway on first petals. Squeeze to pipe a right-cupped petal.

Continue squeezing, moving the tip halfway down on previous petal to pipe another right cupped 

petal, then pull down toward the center of the cupcake.

Repeat sequence to cover cupcake, turning cupcake as needed.

You will need to start with a piping bag and a rose petal tip (preferably sized 104). To start you

should place the larger end of the tip in the center of the cake and squeeze whilst then spinning

the cake and squeezing in a rainbow like motion. Carry on piping in a rainbow like motion to create

 petals surrounding the middle rosette. Keep each petal overlapping the next and gradually build

outward.

Mike's Amazing Cakes, can clearly link art and baking together. I love making cakes and these just show how amazing they can be, and shows that you need to have artistic skills a long side structural/3D skills to be able to do this.

Andie clay, fine artist

 

These are some pictures from his sound and vibration gallery and his earth and water gallery. I absolutely admire this work as each stroke works perfectly combine with big bold strokes to small lines, curved or straight or sharp, and in each picture, each of these strokes works so well with the colours that it automatically hits you with emotions. Not only does he do this, but he also draws out basic lines which can be seen as figures or objects or nature and gets your mind exploring the image more creatively.

Chris Ryder Caricatures

I was recently looking at caricatures for my drawing unit and I came across this artist called Chris Ryder. I love his work because although they are cartoony they are also realistic because of how much detail he puts in, which makes them look distinctively like the subject. Not only that, he also adds specific objects into the drawings which represent their hobbies or interests or loves which brings through even more personality. 

local places

Richard Shepherd

Design and Production Supervisor at Alton Towers Resort.

Let's... Circus

Newcastle upon Tyne. They do street performances and also do work shops and circus training.

I like the idea of circus's especially the costume design. I like that the ideas can completely range and there's always something big or wild or fun to create. I like that you need to know what to design for, for example whether the costume is flexible enough for a contortionist or long enough for a stilt walker and then you build on that to make something practical fun and exciting.

NUXUNO XAN

I love how this street art interacts with the natural surroundings as well as the buildings. It makes people see nature as more important, through art which is good because it makes us think about being less selfish to save the environment. Some of the pieces can appear to be more educational and serious where as some are more playful and perhaps humorous, for example seeing humans and trees interact together with the trees growing as hair is quite funny and in one of the cases quite sexy. I think it's a really fun and clever way to educate and aware the public of the environment and makes us think twice about what we are doing. A lot of the paintings are in black and white which makes the leaves stand out more and seem more colorful and posotive compared to the human drawings.