SPECIAL TECHNIQUES : Page 276
Before putting in the clouds and after the blue isput on, a few dots of yellow, orange and a tint of violetmay be brushed right above the horizon to give asunset effect. After practicing a few simple scenessuch as these, you will see that scenery painting issimple and fast once you have acquired the techniqueof using the brush properly.
For the Western scene, the sky was painted in firstas previously described. The mountains were pipedon with a white and brown icing. Then, using a smallbrush, a few dots of deep colored icing were put onthe crevices and then smoothed nut with a larger brush.The cowboy and horse were painted on with a verysmall brush in deeper colored boiled icing thinneddown to the consistency of oil paints.The Halloween scene is painted in chocolate, orangeand yellow. In a scene such as this, you must keep inmind the angle of the moon's shadows. This cake wasbordered with individual shells using the No. 30 startube and was overpiped in a deep color with a No. 3tube using a question mark design.