Yummy fun…

I’ve drawn cupcakes for my daughters bedroom, but never painted a cupcake.  One of my art students asked me to help them paint a cupcake for a birthday gift. I wasn’t sure where to begin – acrylic paint and pencil crayon are after all, vastly different mediums. Before helping her with her project I decided…

Sweets & treats

The last couple of days I have been busy with drawings of cupcakes and macarons. They are becoming hugely popular as a form of decorative art for newborns and little girls bedrooms. They are fun, quick and easy to draw. The only downside is they leave me craving cupcakes and macarons! I do the initial…

Baking Cupcakes

I love cupcakes and I get requests from the family to bake cupcakes on a regular basis. My problem is I am a very lazy baker. I hate sifting flour, I hate beating this, and adding that in little portions, and then whisking between additions, which is why I absolutely love Nigella Lawson’s book “How…