Chinese New Year Fruit Platters

Red and gold became the theme of our fruit platters made for the Chinese New Year event, by a customer request.

We used mango, strawberry, pomegranate, pineapple, watermelon, grape and oranges for these displays. What made the platters new year specially decorated was the fruit towers with roosters carved of pumpkin and eggplant.

Check out more about the rooster sculpture of vegetables;
Farm Themed Carving Dislays

Fruit platter with pomegranate, grapes, pineapple, watermelon and strawberry

Fruit towers with roosters

mango cuts 

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3 Watermelon Displays With Good Wishes

Good luck wishes

 



 



Messages on watermelons.

 3 fruit displays designed for the 60th anniversary.

 

 

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Wedding Fruit Basket

 



 



The fruit basket with watermelon was designed to be a wedding decoration. Estrella and 5 rose medallions carved on watermelon, a pair of white swans of daikon and delicious fruits surrounded by clouds of Gypsophila flowers.

 

 

The fruit basket for a wedding table decoration

 

My favorite wedding fruit displays:
Blue and White Themed Wedding
Flower Monogram on Watermelon
Medallion carved in Watermelon
Family Tree Design For Wedding Fruit Display


 

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Dove Sculptures And Medallion Carving Design For Turquois Themed Wedding

 

Related articles:
Black, Red And White Color Challenge. Gangster Themed Wedding
Cupids and Hearts Watermelon Design
Pink and White Color Challenge

 Wedding watermelon carving design with rose medallions

The rose medallion design was originated by carving artists from Japan. The design in the photo is my adaptation, I added swirls between roses which look great and do not overload the design.
 

watermelon carving design with rose medallions and swirls for a wedding of Alex and Victoria

Dove sculptures

Dove birds are carved of daikon radish. Compare the dove's sculpture with my first doves made in 2012.

Fruit platter

Color Challenge

As I mentioned in the title, there was a turquois themed event. To match the color challenge, green roses with a blue center were added to a display. The colors gradation was a right decision, as I found later at the site, the gradation's idea was used for some pieces of the head table decoration.

At the head table

Turquois themed wedding decoration



a colors gradation used in the peace of décor

Learn watermelon carving designs from the books:
 



                     

 

 

 

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Wedding Fruit Platter Decoration

I decorated the wedding fruit platter with a boat carved out of a squash. It's filled with raspberry and red currant, and garnished with the exotic frangipani flowers.

Vases, boats and vessels carved of vegetables look very good at the fruit platters. They add more space to the platter and make 3-dimencional look.

 

See more wedding fruit decorations:

Wedding fruit platter with a fruit vase

Beach Themed Wedding

 

Bird sculptures of daikon radish keep leading, they are the popular decorations for wedding fruit arrangements. The heart line on the watermelon skin is carved with nice wavy details.

The wedding fruit arrangement with a fruit boat, the bird sculptures


 Fruit carving books:

 

                

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Farm Theme Carving Displays

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Cats Carving Collection
Flowers Carving For Exhibition

It's a Farm theme today.

There is a bird, a cock and a flower batch in the fruit-n-vegetable farm. The displays were created for a private party. 

The displays look cheery and peaceful so they made me thinking to spend a weekend in a countryside, someday in summer. 

Check out more bird carvings in the blog.

A bird with grapefruit, apples and oranges.
No special tools required.
Basic skill level.

Farm theme party with fruits and vegetable

A batch of flowers carved with a thai knife.

A rooster made with eggplant, grapefruit, bell pepper for wings and pineapple top for the tail.

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Bird Carved Of Pumpkin

Another bird carved of pumpkin.

I used the following carving tools:
V-knife for the white chrysanthemum (chinese cabage),
peeler for the carrot garnish,
U-knife for the feather decoration.

Bird carved of pumpkin

Related posts:
Pumpkin Fire Bird
Parrots Carved Of Daikon Radish
Doves Carved Of Radish
Swans 

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Pumpkin Fire Bird

Pumpkin bird

Watermelon carving display with a bird sculpture carved of pumpkin. 

The arrangement is done for a woman's 70 years birthday.

Watermelon is carved with a thai knife.

Bird's design is made with V and U knives.

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Popular Wedding Fruit Display

This fruit display is very popular and often chosen by my clients form my portfolio. 

I love working on new projects. Looking forward to the next Friday when I will do a fruit display for a Beach Theme wedding. 

But this a job and I have to do what my clients want. They want swans! 

How to hear your clients and how to make them happy? 

How to stay excited with your creative service job?  

These are today's articles from Preston Bailey's guide.

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Birthday Fruit Display For 10 Year Girl With A Vegetable Parrot Sculpture

Fruit display for 10 year old girl's birthday party

Fruit display with a carved watermelon and small parrots carved out of daikon.

This display was sent to a birthday party of 10 year old girl. Her mother asked me for a pair of vegetable parrot sculptures to garnish the watermelon. I think the girl keeps some real birds at home.

Decoration:
Watermelon 2.5 kg with 'Happy Birthday' inscription (in Russian)
Flowers carved out of daikon, green bell pepper and carrot
Parrots out of daikon

Fruit plate:
black and green grape,
Minneola madarines,
oranges,
nectarine,
Bird cherry,
kiwi,
red apple

Check out more birds carved out of vegetables anf fruits:
Dove Birds
Swans For Wedding Fruit Display
Parrots for Vegetable Plate
Paradise Birds
Watermelon Peacock
Small Bird at WonderTree

Fruit garnish details, exotic flower (kiwi and red apple)

'Happy Birthday' inscription (in Russian) in the watermelon

The whole look of the fruit display
with fruit and vegetablecarving decoration

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Making Fruit Carving In Any Weather

Long winter seems never end here. Having snowstorms in March and April is usual business in Sakhalin. 

Last wekeend was hard to me, I had 4 days busy with fruit carving work and 2 of them were while a severe snowstorm. 

I didn't cancel the order at the blizzard day because I had a client driving a hundred kilometers to take the fruit carving display. 

That was a crazy weekend, I couldn't get home (I live in suburb, the road was closed and no transportation run). A friend of mine picked me up after my job and gave me a shelter in the city. 

When you look at fruit carving pictures, you might think they were made in a paradisal resort place. I bet you don't care what is going on outside the room :)

Inside

Paradisal birds and frangipani flowers carving

Wedding fruit carving display

I like to add frangipani flowers to my displays.
It was good to have a chance to learn the flowers in Chiang Mai

Fruit buffet with watermelon and vegetable bird sculptures

Meantime outside

a city square

walking the city in the snowstorm

walking the empty traffic road, no pedestrian lanes yet

Windy, snowing and no roads

Some funny pictures shared after the snowstorm

a guy looks for his car, it should be parked here

the car is found!

a map with marks where to dig out cars

the map was correct!

Want to get back to paradise?

Fruit display for birthday

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Doves Carving

A pair of doves sit on the wedding watermelon.
The bird's material is daikon.
Carved with a thai knife. I use the Soap Carving Book for birds carving ideas.

Bird carving for wedding

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Wedding Fruit Display for Chocolate Fountain Buffet at Plaza Restaurant

I used one of my old watermelon designs to present a fruit display for a chocolate fountain buffet. You can't see a chocolate fountain on the picture, it came later.

That day a bride's family came early to the restaurant to check up how things were going on. A bride's brother (a 10 years old boy) came to me while I was working on the display. I really love how children react  our edible art. They don't hide their astonishment and joy. He investigated all the things about the fruit display and what it was made of. And when he would be allowed to eat it. 

Apart from my display there were other interesting things at the restaurant hall. A barmen was building a champagne tower (champagne pyramid), a lady was decorating with a baloon heart. But the fruit sculpture attracted him the most. He took my business cards and distributed it in coming guests saying "Look at the watermelon, the swans are made from daikon and the flowers are from bell peppers".

I got a perfect advertizing campaign that day! 

Here are the photographs of the wedding decorations:

Fruit carving display for a chocolate fountain buffet

Daikon swans and bell pepper flowers

Kohlrabi roses

Watermelon, all flowers and apples are carved with a thai knife.

apple carving

apple carving

Baloon heart

Wedding cake in a heart shape

Champagne tower (pyramid)

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