Easy Fruit Garnishes - Apple Boat

Apple boat - easy fruit carving lesson

Fruit carving video today!

An amazing apple boat, a super easy fruit garnish you or your child can do too.

This apple boat is the most popular fruit garnish I show at my fruit carving demos. It is a quick and easy super hit.

You need the following fruits and tools:

Apple
Orange skin
Toothpicks and a wooden skewer
Paring knife
Small size melon baller

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Live Class 'New Year Fruit Arrangement'

The symbols of the arrangement:
lime for bamboo,
apple fans for the fan
pomegranates for Daruma eyes.



 

In December 2015 I participated in Ikebana exhibition in Yuzhno city. It was a New Year themed floral event with many wonderful ikebana arrangements made in traditional Japanese style. I gave a Live show how to make a fruit arrangement using the traditional colors of new year ikebana Kadomatsu.

Limes symbolize bamboo, pomegranates imitate Daruma eyes and apple carving in a shape of fan means paper red fan usually added to the traditional new year Ikebana arrangements.

 

Watch the video of my class where I show how to arrange the fruit Ikebana.

 

 

 

 



 

 



The exhibition's display of mine, with cabbage and flowers.

Ikebana arrangement with vegetables

 

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Halloween 2015

Hello, I will be your guide to the castle of  Pumpkin Dracula

Hello,

 

Hope you guys had a great Halloween night. Even if you spent that night at home, I hope you did some pumpkin carvings.

 

I spent the night at the Halloween show in the cinema. Before seeing a horror movie the visitors tried themselves in carving scary faces in fruits. That was a quick class for joy.

 

I am looking forward to having official photographs of the evil party and monsters at my class :)

 

 

Halloween decorations 2015

 

 

 

Halloween carving class

How to carve scary face on fruits



Halloween carving class

 

 

 

 

Halloween streets

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Valentine's Day Soap Carving Lesson

Valentine's Day soap carving lesson

Date: February 7, 2015 (Saturday)
Time: 12-00 pm, duration 1.5 hour
Place: Arms-De-Hope studio, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Price: 400 rub
All materials and tools are provided.

Make a reservation by phone 61-29-88, 61-29-89


My English speaking clients and students are very welcome.

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Fruit Carving Show

When Tom Cruise and Olga Kurilenko broke an ice sculpture at a Taiwanese premiere of Oblivion, and the Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs did a Watermelophant Contest, I got that carving art could be turned into an entertaining show. I've had a dream to do a fruit carving perfomance one day. I took down a plan of my possible show including jokes, funny stories and sketchs of garnishes which could be intersting to visitors. I was prepared to meet my chance :)

The opportunity came to me in the begining of May, when I did a Fruit Carving Show at a movie preview "Kitchen In Paris", a comedial story about a russian cafe in Paris. 

It was a 30 minutes fruit carving perfomance in the cinema theater before the movie. After a short presentation I involved people in to the art of drink garnishing. 

I had some cretaria for my show:

• beign kids friendly with family content
• using easy techniques with a simple knife
• show fruit garnishes that people do not expect to see
• connection with the movie theme

Instead of 30 minutes I had 1 hour show. When the movie started I still had people at my desk. 

See the following pictures of the show.

Photos by Sergey Shalin

Speed limit "Five drinks in hour"

More photographs of the show are published here http://citysakh.ru/news/40150/

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New page with pictures from my classes

I have added a new page to my blog with pictures from my carving lessons and live demonstrations. Check up My classes  in the menu bar for more information about my activities.

I hope to see you and your creations in My class photo gallery some day! :)

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Carving Class On Making Vegetable Bouquet

Vegetable carving bouquets

This story is about how clients become students. 

In April this year I did a fruit cake for the lady's birthday. Now she is taking carving lessons while her vacation and during this raining week out here.

Here are some pictures of the lady's work.

Olga with her vegetable carving bouquet

Vegetable flowers in a pumpkin frame

This summer I had a bride at my carving class. She wanted to decorate her wedding reception herself. She learned how to decorate fruit plates, how to carve watermelon and flowers from vegetable. 

Here is a picture from our last lesson before her wedding. Julia said that she spent overnight carving flowers for the carving display. I answered that she had better to take a good sleep before the wedding day. But Julia was persevering on carving. By the way do you notice her wedding nail style on the photo? 

The bride carves her wedding watermelon

Julia works on her wedding watermelon

Do you want to learn how to carve fruits and vegetables? There are lot of books, DVD's and tools for sale.

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