Workshops

Creative Sugar Art Workshops can be great fun and an ideal way to learn new skills while going home with a finished product. These can be arranged as individual tuition, or in groups of usually 10 - 16 students although smaller numbers are fine. Workshops can also be arranged for small groups of like-minded friends at a venue and time to suit.

Below is a list of new workshops , together with all workshops available. More new ones are being added gradually over the summer, once planned. Generally speaking if you have coated a cake with sugarpaste and can make and use an icing bag, then you should enjoy any of the projects.

All workshops are 5 - 6 hours unless labelled a half day, which are 2 - 3 hours long.

    Contact info@creativesugarart.co.uk for more details about prices, techniques, venue, and pictures of the projects.

Workshops with places still available to be booked

Pink Cake with Spray of Jasmine and Rose Leaves

A patterned paste cake with rolls and a colour wash, featured previously in Squires Magazine and 'Patterned Pastes'. 5 -6 hours

19th October 2006

To book contact Squires Kitchen International School of Sugarcraft, Farnham, Surrey GU9 8BB  http://www.squiresschool.co.uk/home/

NEW! Spiralled Pendants

Mollusc Shell patterns made from flower paste and mounted on small cake boards. Great fun to make in a variety of colours, and can actually be worn! Suitable for a short 1-2 hour workshop.

 On Saturday 11th November 2006 at the ICHF Cake Decoration Show at the N.E.C. in Birmingham we will be making ONE of these designs in a 1 hour workshop at 1500. To book go to www.ichf.co.uk/cake/cake_workshops.php

NEW! Striped Cake With Rose. Patterned Paste sugarpaste cake with arrangement of folded reed, large bud, yellow rose, and hosta style leaves. Some experience making wired sugar flowers essential.

Thursday 8th March 2007 - To book contact Squires Kitchen International School of Sugarcraft, Farnham, Surrey GU9 8BB  http://www.squiresschool.co.uk/home/

NEW! Leopard Skin Cake with Striped Rose. This unusually shaped Patterned Paste cake is decorated with a leopard skin design, always a popular look with customers, and a striped rose called Oranges and Lemons. Striped roses were popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and they are becoming very fashionable once again. Suitable for students who have had some experience making wired sugar flowers.

Sunday 10th September 2006 - in Kungalv, Sweden. To book contact  http://tartdecor.se/

Thursday 17th May 2007 at Squires Kitchen, Farnham, Surrey GU9 8BB - to book contact http://www.squiresschool.co.uk/home/

Workshops creating Pictures

Maiden Hair Fern.  Royal Iced picture with a little rice paper and sugarpaste. Texturing, painting, embossing, and a technique for making R.I. diamond shapes

View From a Devon Window. Royal Icing with flooded colours using edible varnish. Learn basic design with simple perspective and tone values.

My Back Garden. Royal Iced picture with texture and simple piping. Learn basic design with centre of interest, highlights, simple perspective and tone value.

Waves. Royal Iced picture with scrolls and barrels to form wave effects. Use of line to create movement.

Workshops creating Flowers

Striped Tulips. As featured in the booklet 'Patterned Pastes'. Wired or unwired as required.

NEW!  Spray Roses with striped petals. As illustrated in booklet 'Patterned Pastes'. Use of 5 -petal rose cutter. This can be a half-day workshop to learn the techniques, or a full day to complete a small spray of these attractive flowers.

Workshops creating Sculptures

Large leaf sculpture. Flower paste, Royal Icing. As exhibited at The Riverhouse Gallery in  'Eat Art'.

NEW! Pink Nude. Sculpture made from wire, paper, mod-roc and decorated with Royal Icing and granulated sugar. As exhibited in The Fountain Gallery as part of my exhibition 'Will It Keep?' This is a 2 day workshop. As the model will have to dry out thoroughly before decorating, it is advisable to have at least one week between each session.

Workshops creating Cakes

Gift Box Cake

A patterned paste cake with spirals, wheel pattern, stripes, and a small spray of striped sweet peas. 6 hours.

Red Sugarpaste Cake with Textures. Using texture to create design with line, and with a little Royal Icing.

Cake with Painted Flowers. A shaped cake with painted carnations using basic Folk Art painting techniques. Very unusual design.

Apple Blossom Cake. Sugarpaste coated cake with my 'rolled onlay' technique. Decorated with life-sized Royal Iced flowers and leaves using home made formers. Some piping experience essential.

NEW!  Patterned Paste wired bow made from flower/petal paste and arranged on a sugarpaste cake. Students can choose their own colours! This is a half-day workshop