Floral Cake Design: Craft Edible Art

Planning and Mixing the Colour Palette

A course by Cynthia Irani , Cake Artist

99% positive reviews (95)

4,219 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Planning and Mixing the Colour Palette

Overview

“I will show you how to plan your colour palette and mix your gum paste and fondant colours. ”

In this video lesson Cynthia Irani addresses the topic: Planning and Mixing the Colour Palette, which is part of the Domestika online course: Floral Cake Design: Craft Edible Art. Use cakes as a canvas to capture the beauty of the natural world by creating delicious botanical compositions with sugar.

Partial transcription of the video

“Planning and Mixing the Color Palette In this lesson, I'll walk you through how to plan your color palette so that we can mix the gum paste and our fondant for our final project. I like to use Adobe Color. You can go to coloradobe.com and upload your reference photo. It will help guide your palette decision and choose what colors you want to pick for your final project. I'll now upload the photo. So I'll go to Extract Theme and just tap, go to my Photo Library and pick the colors I want. I'll go ahead and choose this one as my reference photo. You can decide to move your cursor into the col...”

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Course summary for: Floral Cake Design: Craft Edible Art

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (95)
4219 students
4 units
14 lessons (2h 21m)
2 downloads

Category
Craft, Culinary, Design
Areas
Cake Decorating, Cake Design, Edible Art, Fondant

Cynthia Irani

A course by Cynthia Irani

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Cake Artist

Cynthia Irani is a contemporary cake designer and artist based in Montreal, Canada. Growing up in a creative household meant she was exposed to a variety of crafts from a young age. She painted murals at school and went on to study graphic design at university, minoring in fine art. Cynthia then worked in the tech industry and product design for 15 years for clients including Yellow Pages Canada, OneOcean Group, and Shopify.

After baking a cake in celebration of the birth of her first child, and sharing it on Instagram, her career in cake decoration began. Since then, Cynthia has become known for her free-flowing petals and the muted, neutral designs which she creates and shares with over 100K followers on Instagram. Her work has also been featured in publications including Cake Masters Magazine and 100 Layer Cakes.