Fruit Carving

How To Make Fruit Carving

Not only wood and stone that can be carved. Fruits became very beautiful and interesting when touched by the hands of artists fruit carving. Deftly these artists make whole fruits turned into sculptures that have high artistic value.

This is Fruit Carving, an art in serving food with beauty, usually the media used is round fruit-shaped fruit and has a soft texture. In the art of Fruit Carving, one would sculpt and carve a fruit using fairly simple tools ie, cutter, jagged knife and toothpick if needed. Here are some fascinating Fruit Carving artworks:

How to make carving fruit:

1. The fruit must be in fresh condition and also not too ripe.

2. The next step is made first pattern that will be carved. The engraver must also determine what part of the fruit will be. Example to form a bouquet of flowers on the watermelon, the green color of the outer part will be made into leaves. While the red color will be used as flowers and white color will be used as a gradation for the shape of the flower is visible.

3. Tools used to carve, among others, a set of fruit carving knives or garnish knives. Such knives usually have a special shape. Shaped like grated, crooked and others.

4. The difficulty level in carving this fruit is quite high. The sculptor must be thorough because once a scratch or cut can destroy the initial design. Then after being carved, the fruit is usually wrapped in an airtight wrap plastic and stored in a refrigerator with a standard cold (not a frezer). And this fruit can last 3 to 4 days ahead.

Tools used for carving fruit:

        In making fruit carving does require special tools,

The most common is a carving knife. The knife used is also varied, and has its function - each of which is bent point, to make curved strokes,

There is a long, pointed and pointed end, usually used to make small strokes, and sharp,

And there are also shaped like chisels, and has a different shape - different, which serves to make streaks resemble petals, and many other types of knives.

Besides the cutting board is also used as a complementary tool as a base for cutting, and carving