Blog about fruit anf vegetable carving art, food garnishing, fruit and vegetable sculpting and soap carving. Original tutorials and step-by-step instruction for food carving. Designed by Selena Ze Arteest
This is my new project for the Sakhalin ZOO park. I have designed the soap carving Birds collection for the ZOO gift shop. Today we had a meeting at the shop. They accepted all the soap pieces. More animals images are coming up!
My friends have made a portrait of mine with the Rubik's cubes! It's an amazing piece of art made of 240 cubes just in 3 (!) hours. These guys are awesome with speedcubing.
Konstantin and Tatiana, a young family from Moscow, have a hobby called 'speedcubing'. Their 6 year old daughter is very good in solving the twisting puzzle too. "Art Of Cube" is what they do every Saturday morning with all the family together.
At the end of this post you can watch the video how they did that. They are so talented and genius, a super family!
I got my first Rubik's cube when I suppose I was eleven or twelve. I was keen on brain teasing games, so I was given a lot with the different puzzles and task books by my parents and grandparents. I have had several twisting puzzles like a pyramid, Rubik's cube, a magic snake and labyrinth puzzles. The most difficult task to me was the Rubik's cube. I have no one to explain me an algorithm. I just randomly twisted the cube and it took me 2 years to solve it somehow one day ))
I am impressed by the skills of the family to do such things. That is super cool!
See how they did that.
Watermelon basket could be so much fun when it is designed in a special way for a special person. Alex a birthday guy has been given with the cool "Biker's Watermelon".
It was not easy to make this design. It took me 3 hours to carve the bike because of the complicated design and the hard skin of the watermelon.
I like the finished centerpiece.
If you have a small green pumpkin or a large squash you can turn it into a nicely looking lantern.
The lantern consist of 2 parts, they are a lantern body in a tube shape and a cone top.
Clean out the tube body.
Carve a pattern imitating a garden lantern.
Use the squash end part for the top. Clean out this part too and make a hole on top to let the candle's heat go out.
Decorate the top part with some simple cuts made with the U or V knives.
Build a lantern by bringing the body and the top together.
To light up the lantern take off the top, place a fire (candle) inside the body and bring the top detail back.
Be sure that you left a hole to let the heat out.
Enjoy fall crafting!
Tools used in the project: U and V knives to decorate a top detail Thai knife to carve a parten Paring knife to cut vegetable Melon baller to clean out pumpkin and squash
Photo album with new ideas for fun fruit sculptures and Baby Shower's fruit platters. Fruit models of Gummi Bears, Giraffe, Teddy Bear, Minion, Thomas the Tank Engine, Mickey Mouse, 9 sculptures in total with description of materials to use.
Written in English and Russian languages. PDF Download
The wild nature has became a theme for my fruit display. Can you imagine this roaring bear's head placed on the top of a watermelon? And served to a fruit buffet? I did that :)
Sculptured of pumpkin this bear head has been designed for a birthday party of a man, a lover of hunting. The watermelon design is made in hunting theme too.
Happy to share my floral arrangement made for the latest Ikebana show in Yuzhno city.
This arrangement is special to me because there is a story and a memory behind it. The arrangement is a complex of three different cultures as Japanese (Ikebana art), Thai (fruit carving and Thai lantern) and Russian (my personality and my mind). It is a mix of minds, it's a path I enjoy to walk now.
In this arrangement I've focused on the Thai component. Together with the carved apples I have used a Thai lantern with a Bodhi tree. I brought this lantern from Bangkok when I was on carving art study in Malisa school. In the arrangement, the lantern is a symbol of Thai, it is a temple of Thai. It is a temple of ART. More, we show our souls by arts. I want visitors to feel this deep message.
More photographs from the show on Facebook. Don't miss guessgames on my Facebook page!
interview for ASTV
Our teacher and a head of Sakhalin Ikebana School Mrs.Alexandra Kudryashova came to Sakhalin from Sochi (where Alexandra-sensei is residing now) to make the show. Was so great to study and to work with our beloved teacher again.
together with teacher Alexandra Kudryashova and Ikebana group
Sakhalin Study Group of Sogetsu Ikebana School, signed by Akane Teshigahara
Hope you are enjoying the summer time and good things are coming your way this season.
As for me, I became a media person and time to time I am on TV and news timelines here and there with fruit carving, ikebana and even more activities :)
I remember about my blog activity too. So a new short PDF tutorial is ready to be downloaded. "Fruit Art. Panda" tutorial is a lesson from the complete guide "Cute Fruit Sculptures For Children".
The panda sculpture is made with red apples and some grapes using an orange knife. Though it requires some knife skills it is OK for beginners to start with and to do a wow-effect.
Fruit Art. Panda
Tutorial for cute fruit sculpting
Instant PDF Download
DIY Baby Shower fruit decoration
20 pages with more than 50 photos of step-by-step direction and extra 20 photos of fruit displays with using the cute sculptures.
This Hawaiian themed installation was presented to the public at "Sakhalin Artisans" exhibition held at the biggest trading center in my city on 25th of April, 2015.
This installation is a new project of me and my friend and painter Marina. We combined painting and fruit displays to deliver a feeling of the exotic place.
The masterpieces on the photos:
The fruit tower with a Hawaiian mask carved out of pumpkin and flowers carved of daikon.
A sculpture of parrot carved out of daikon and flowers of vegetables.
Here in Russia Easter is celebrated on the 12 of April, 2015.
Last weekend we had a class on making Easter garnishes. At the class I taught how to carve spring flowers out of vegetables and how to make Easter bunny with fruits.
We arranged some branches in a vase and decorated them with soap carving eggs, paper eggs and mini plants in the egg's shell.
On the photos you see my ideas of eggs dyeing. They were fun to do with kids. I liked the chicks and the kids liked to do the Minions ))
Step by step tutorial on carving fruit sculptures for children's party.
This is a collection of the best sculptures I have carved for Baby Showers and kid's parties.
A pdf album with new ideas of fruit displays made for children. The photos from the file have never been posted in the blog.
The photos have brief descriptions and lists of the materials used.
Hi, I am Elena, also known as Selena Ze Arteest. I am a designer, fruit carving artist and owner of Caving Studio since 2007. GarnishFood blog is about the art of Thai carving and edibe arrangements made of vegetables, fruits and sweets. Recently I am keen on Ikebana art and phytodesign.
which are loops in different sizes and shapes. Each carving artist should have them. The Ray Villafane's 3-D Pumpkin Carving Tutorials DVD
will help you to master the pumpkin art.
