A lot of face painter's out there will tell you it can get quite expensive buying split cakes, as they can cost more then the single colour face paint's themselves. So today I am going to show you how you can make split cakes out of the colours you already have.
If your reading this this thinking 'what do cakes have to do with anything?' I don't blame you, I was the same when I first heard about split cakes. Basically a split cake is 2 or more colours pushed together in a single pot so you can pick up all the colours in a single stroke of your brush.
You will need:
- Face Paints (colours you want in your cake)
- A Pot
- Knife / Artists Spatula
- Ruler
- Paper
- Tissue (to clean knife)
First of all you want to pick out what colours you want to use. Try to pick colours that blend well together as they will blend together a little on the brush.
Next you want to measure out your pot, you can either use a new pot of an old face paint pot that you have used all of the paint out of, baring in mind round ones are harder to fit the paint into.
Using a ruler and paper, either draw around your pot or mark out the outline. This will become the template for cutting out the paint to size.
The potsI am using are just ones I have collected from my uncle, I think they had chocolates in but they have been washed, and it doesn't matter that they don't have a lid as I don't find they need one.
Once you have your template, you need to mark out on your paint where you need to cut. I just use the tip on my spatula to put little dents in as the paint is soft.
Now you need to cut down into the paint, be gentle as sometimes the paint can break and crack. Make sure you go over each cut a couple of times to make sure it is cut all the way down.
Then you need to price it out with the knife or spatula and transfer it to the new pot. Don't worry if it breaks because you can just mold it back together in the new pot.
Now do the same with the other colours until your split cake is completed. Remember to wipe off your knife or spatula between colours with a tissue.
...And here is the end result!
I know there are a few cracks in the orange, but they will fade out after the 2 or 3 uses. So, not as neat as the shop bought ones but its a lot cheaper, means you can pick out your own colours and order they go in and you get the same results so these are all round winners for me!
Hope this helped :)
Stay Inspired
Amy
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