Painting Marzipan Pigs

Naked pigs are not my thing, so it's off to the spray booth for the marzipan pigs.  

My friend Jim can make just about anything to do with wood, and he made this spray booth for decorating my confections.  I got the plans from here.  The booth is great.  A big thank you to the folks at Vent Works who shared their knowledge and know how.  I've got a couple of airbrushes, one for using with cocoa butter for the chocolate decoration, and another for use with the food color for the marzipan.  When the fan is going with the booth, you'd never know it.  It does the job.  The filter proves it.  It is a rainbow of colors.

While the piggies are made from old molds in traditional shapes, there is nothing saying that we have to paint them up in a traditional way.  I pop the pigs on top of a metal stand that I picked up at a ceramics supply house.  It is used for putting things on and lets you turn it around to make access easy to all parts of the object.  Like a lazy Susan on a stand.  

Using a combination of paintbrushes and the airbrush, I gussie up the pigs.  After all, they are going out for New Year's, so they have to look their best.  Plain pink just won't cut it, after all.  Remember that line from "La Cage aux Folles" where Albion has his black suit and white shirt on, and then hikes up his pants to show his bright pink socks?  "Always a hint of color".  Well, we are sort of channeling that in our dress design - a hint of color.  And a goodly amount of luster dust to top things off as well.  It is New Year's Eve after all that we are dressing them for.