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36 | September 2018 http://www.cakedecorationmagazine.co.uk``````10 Using dark green airbrush paint,create some seaweed along the seabottom and a few random curvy linesupwards to give it a look of movingseaweed.``````11 Place a lump of white sugarpasteon top of the cake, this will be coveredby waves later but will be what youuse to hold the turtle shell at an angle.Experiment with how you want it tolook and once happy, spray with blueand leave to dry.``````13 Keep the thin end thicker (pressdown on the larger side and flattenlike a paddle) and pinch the thin endslightly so it looks like a flipper.``````14 Do this with all four pieces. Thenhold against your shell to see what kindof shape you want them to dry like. Icurved mine and left them to dry togive the illusion that he is swimming.``````15 Now for the head, take thepolystyrene ball and around 100g ofwhite modelling paste. Roll out thepaste from a ball shape and keep themiddle thicker so it creates alittle mound.``````16 Cover the ball keeping the ‘mound’as the nose and pulling the excess tocreate the neck.``````9 Using your airbrush, create a watereffect on the dummy/cake. Spray withblue, trying to keep it darker at thebottom. Then using either a ruler or apiece of straight card, create a lighteffect with white paint. Spray againstthe straight edge and paint from thetop of the cake downwards at anangle. There should be more whitepaint at the top and just faint lines asyou get to the bottom.``````12 Take 200g of white modelling pasteand split into four equal pieces. Shapeinto large teardrops.``````8 Now go around the base of the shelland create elongated semi-circlesspaced around the bottom. This isn’texact, nature is unique so don’t worryif they are different sizes/shapes etc.``````17 Using your fingers push either sideof the nose to create eye sockets andusing a knife indent a mouth with aslight smile.``````18 Then pinch the nose to create asharp upper lip.ADD SEA EFFECTSMAKING THE CUTESEA TURTLEp34-38_Lisa Elliott.indd 36 09/08/2018 17:51