Edible Ivy!

This is my experiment with the edible ivy I want crawling up the right wall in my installation. 

For this experiment I bought a few packets of edible rice paper, green food colouring and writing icing. 

I found an ivy shape on the internet and traced it, then using a stencil I cut a few ivy leaves out of my rice paper. 

This one is the one where I used food colouring to paint the veins of the leaf into the rice paper, and as you can see, they look thick and a bit clunky and clumsy. 

 With the next two leaves on one I used yellow and the other green writing icing, and they turned out fantastically! because the writing nozzle is so small I could create intricate lines for the veins of the leaf... and as a bonus the writing icing sets fairly quickly, so it will not drip, smudge or run! 

 I am creating 4 different sizes of ivy leaf for my wall, so it wont look uniform and rigid. 

I am also going to use yellow, green and white writing icing for the leaves as they are the main colours you see in ivy leaves veins.