Gumpaste Fantasy Horse Tutorial

 

 

 

One of my favorites things is to modeling figurines, can be made out of gumpaste, cold porcelain or clay. When I am doing this, I am feel relax, away for the daily issues and it is the moment when you use your imagination!!!..

 

In order to attach the pieces you need edible glue. It is so easy to make and you can storage at the refrigerator. In my next post you can find the recipe..

 

Here is the tutorial. It's a step by step tutorial that is very easy to make, it is like to play with play dough, let your childhood brings out again, and the most important thing, ENJOY IT....   

 

 

Step 1: LEGS

Shape 10 grams of gumpaste into a cone. Push the thick part of the cone against the table to make the bottom part flat. With a the back of a knife make a line around the bottom to form the horseshoe. Make four legs and set aside.

 

Step 2: BODY

Make a cone with a ball of 40 grams of gumpaste. Elongate the thin part, be careful not to make to thin, because this part will be the neck. Push this part up and shape as a neck. Insert a half of  a toothpick to support the neck but leave a part out of the neck for the head.

With edible glue attach the legs to the body.

 

 

Step 3: HEAD

 

With 20 grams of gumpaste make a ball. Put the ball in one hand and with the other hand, using one finger, go back and forth at the middle of the ball to make the space for the eyes. Using a small ball tool make the nostrils and the eye cavity, and with a knife make the mouth.

 

Step 4: EYES, EARS, BRIDLE

EYES: Fill the eyes cavities with a little ball of white gumpaste and flat a little with the ball tool. Make two small circles of blue gumpaste and glue to the white part. Make a smaller black circle and glue at the bottom of the blue ones. With a toothpick and white color food make two small dot to give some light to the eyes. Using a food marker make a line around the eyes and make the eyelashes.

EARS: Make two small balls into teardrops press against the table to flatten. Put into position.

BRIDLE: Roll a thin sausage of pink gumpaste and attached around the front part of the mouth and to the sides behind the ears. Put edible glue to the toothpick that is in the neck and  insert the head, use more glue if necessary to attach the head to the neck. 

 

Step 4: TAIL AND MANE

 

 

Using purple gumpaste, make different sizes of logs and turn a like to one end to give some movement, and glue them  as a tail. MANE: Using the logs put some of them at the top of the head, between the ears and the back of the head. You can overlapping them. Decorate as you want, using bows, flowers, anything you want.