Striving for Comprehension

I am now okay at carving things out of plants. Over the past two weeks I have been attending a fruit and vegetable carving class led by a chef who had been carving fruit since the art became big in the early 30′s. the course required that you bring a chef knife and a paring knife so I brought both (plus my cook training apron). The teacher was really nice, he sharpened my battered twenty year old Henckle. It is now a deadly thing. In the class I learned how to make lots of things. Most of them flowers from things like carrots, turnips, tomatoes, potatoes, and citrus fruits. These are the best pictures from both classes. 

I made more, but none of them were as nice as theses ones.

Amazing news!!! I now have a mentor. The instructor of my course agreed to be my mentor. I’ll be e-mailing him pictures of things I had made myself and questions about how to preform certain techniques in carving. Things are really moving along now. I’m getting really confident and i’m becoming more of a perfectionist when it comes to my pieces. the best part too, is eating them. One thing I think I’ll ask my mentor is how to wax different pieces. I tried to wax one of his amazing potato flowers. The next morning it had turned brown… Man, didn’t know so much stuff could happen in two weeks.