Fun Figures by Lorraine Mckay

Fun Figures by Lorraine Mckay

Starting with a comprehensive techniques section showing you everything you need to know, this inspiring book then takes you step by step through 10 cute and characterful projects. Galleries of close-ups show you exactly what you are trying to achieve, while Lorraines helpful tips will guide you on your way.

February 2015

This book is packed with tips for success and will help you to create cute and accomplished looking sugar figures with easeIt guides you through Lorraine McKay's distinctive sugar art style to create characterful figures for 10 special occasion cakes for weddings and graduations, baby showers and birthdays. This book covers all the basic techniques you need, from mixing skin tones and making eyes, arms, teeth and hair, to supporting your finished figures.

* Cake Craft & Decoration *

February 2015

Creating cute character toppers is so easy with Lorraine McKay's detailed step-by-step photos and accessible instructions. A gallery of close-up shots will be handy to refer to as you work.

* Cake Decorating & Cupcakes *

Summer 2015

With 10 easy-to-follow projects including stepby-step instructions and accompanying photographs, Fun Figures is a great guide for those looking to start making models to top wedding and celebration cakes. The comprehensive introduction guides you through all the techniques needed, from making hands and feet and mixing skin tones to creating facial features. The projects themselves encompass a range of ages, genders, nationalities and occasions and are photographed on cakes to give ideas for how best to present your finished figures.

* Cakes & Sugarcraft Magazine *

July 2015

This super book guides you through the creation of cute, characterful sugar figures for ten special occasion cakes,

from weddings and graduations to baby showers and birthdays. The book covers the basic techniques you need, from mixing skin tones

and making eyes, arms teeth and hair to supporting your finished figures, then it then guides you step by step through inspiring projects.

There are lots of tips for success in modelling.

* Cake Craft & Decoration *

Lorraine McKay is a self-taught sugar artist from Scotland who turned her sugar art hobby into a thriving business - The Icing on the Cake. She has won several Gold Awards in the Novelty Cake and Wedding Cake categories at the annual Cake Show at the NEC Birmingham, and in 2006 was asked to demonstrate her work at the Edinburgh branch of the British Sugarcraft Guild – she is now an accredited British Sugarcraft Guild demonstrator. Lorraine also writes a blog: Extra Icing on the Cake, and provides a number of popular online tutorials. She began offering workshops at her studio in 2007 and has since gone on to teach classes all over the world. Lorraine lives in West Lothian, Scotland.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781782210320
ISBN 10	1782210326
Title	Fun Figures
Author	Lorraine Mckay
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Search Press Ltd
Year published	2014-10-19
Number of pages	128
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.