It is no secret that sculpting
with gum paste, fondant or candy clay is sculpting with food.
But these
media all follow the same guidelines - kneading some of the material at hand
then transforming it into a new object, from flowers to animals to
people.
I've been
using these media for over 15 years, and I love working with them, but I'm
always fascinated when I see other food used to create one of a kind sculptures.
Such as
cheese:
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| Hey Bob! |
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| :) Butter: |
Pumpkin carving:
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| Soo cool! |
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| artist at work |
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| WOW |
Or mosaic candy portraits:
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| Guess who? |
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| who Am I ? |
I always admire this type of art work, because I find it much more challenging to create a figure by carving. You need to imagine each part of your subject and you can't go wrong. Or replace what you've already carved...
In art pictures created from candy, you have to spend quite some time arrainging the colors correctly with ready made pieces. That seems like a real hassle.
Yesterday
I visited the 30th annual International Exhibition for Food and Beverage.
I enjoyed
it as in previous years, but it was the first time I had a chance to see up-close
the work of a chef that is also a sculptor, Shimon Ben ami. He sculpts in Margarine!
Mostly he
had photos portraying his work, but I didn't take any of them due to their quility. However, he also had a great sculpture of Shimon Peres
the Israeli President.
In the following photo you can see the sculpture the sculptor and
the photo of Shimon Peres.
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| shimon & Shimon |
The resemblance is amazing. I really looked the way
he handles the Margarine. He didn't smooth it as you would regularly see in
other works created from Margarine or Butter, he gave it a rough look, similar
to bronze sculptures.
Do you sculpt in food other then the sugar collection?
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