Sculpture Sur Glace... :)

Yesterday(Feb 25^th) was the day I was waiting since the week before because I get to know that we were going to do some ICE CARVING!!!!!! Wohoooo!!! Hehehehe… :P… but I was late that morning… half an hour late to be exact…. Woke up late that morning because I forgot to set the alarm…:S…. Luckily the rest of my group members haven’t started yet and were given explanation about the tools and general stuffs about ice carving… :P… there's a lot of tools used for carving ice… including chain saw, chisel, saw, some rotary tools and so on… plus they are not cheap…

The Ice Block

We're gonna use a few of the tools yesterday... chisel(a few types of it), chainsaw, and some other... we were asked to wear gloves to throughout the whole process... because of the ice was so cold... duhh!!!? hehehehe... :P... and helps reduce the risk of getting cuts from the sharp chisel while carving... in this CAD(Culinary Arts & Design) class, we were divided into 3 groups... each group gets one big block of ice... btw we we're also explained on how to handle the ice block as well to prevent it from shattering and so on... :)

Cutting the ice into two with the saw... didn't get a pic of me cutting with a chainsaw... :(

1st of all we were ask to trim the sides of the huge ice block and cut it into two... :)... we're going to make a square container and a leaf bowl... :)... there's 4 of us in the group... at 1st all of us were at the 1st block doing the container... then Chef asked me to start carving the leaf bowl.. ehehehe... by my self!!! wahahahahahahahahh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Carving the Ice Container... :)

Got myself the tools required and started the leaf bowl straight away... hehehe... i love this... :)... but the thing about ice carving is that, it is so damn tiring!!!! sweating throughout the whole process of carving them... :S.... anyway... i don't mind... because i love doing this... wahhaha...

Me carving the "Leaf Bowl"

The Leaf Bowl pics... :P

i did mine slightly different from what was suppose to be like... :P... the inner part of the bowl was curved instead of edgy which was supposed to be like... hehe... i like it curved better since it looks more natural... hehaahaha... :P... plus the sides i did not follow the starting design.... i followed the leaf design i did on my previous pumpkin leaf... hehehe... :P.... haha... mine was abit different... then the other group ciplak(copied) my leaf bowl pattern... wahahhaha... :P... i don't mind anyway... we all there to learn... :)...

Group Photo with our ices... :P

Our ices are thrown into the drain...we have to... :(

Ice carving was really really fun but in the same time its very tiring... although it was cold... but still we will sweat while carving them... it takes some effort to get it done since it is very hard... and we need to be careful not to hit to hard to avoid for getting it ruined and shatter... :P..

Fleur Sculpture!!!!!

Tomorrow(23 feb 2011) is my friends birthday and was thinking of making something for her(Jenny Lim to be exact)... thought of making carvings but no idea our of what... the last post was about me learning fruit carvings and stuffs in CAD(Culinary Arts & Design) class... if fruits or vegies weren't ment to be kept in a long period... out of wood might consume me a few days to finish it i think...

Then i remmembered wat i learned when i was 10 years old, i learned to carve on soaps in arts class... :)... but simple designs of course... made a heart shape and so on which is very very simple... :).. then thought of using soap with the design of carving that i learned from fruit carvings in CAD Class...

:)... got my self a block of soap and cut the sides so it fits in a box that i am gonna place it into...

Cut The sides and made a circle line..


Made a deep groove and made lines for the leafs...


Made the leaves... took me around one and half hour... just the leafs... :P


Started to make the flower in the middle... took me an hour to get the shape... :P




Refining tho whole thing... slightly more than half an hour... :P



All done... :)...

The whole process took me 3 hours to make... :)... just stop to get drinks only and then straight on continue doing... wahahhaha... :P... well... it worth the time and the outcome was awesome!!!... hehehehe... :P... Hope that Jenny Lim a.k.a Bak Bao, would love this.. hahahaha... :P

Fruits & Vegies Carved By Bone.. :P

This past 4 classes of Culinary Arts & Design (CAD) Class, we've been doing vegetables and fruit carving... Which is actually my favourite class for my course in KDU... :)... i was an art student before and love arts as well... but to to the extend of beeing hyperly into arts stream... in Culinary course i could develop my skills and passion for arts and food(cooking)... hehe...

well.... i love carvings... :)... the 1st class of CAD we did vegetables carvings... making leaves shapes out of cucumber, flowers out of chillies... flowers out of radish, potatoes and so on... in the end we arrange all those carvings to make this Vegetable Floral Bouquet...

The bouquet of vegie flower. :P

flower carved from radish... :P

The second class of CAD, we did pumpkin carving... :P... made leaves and flower out of it... :P... kinda simple for this one... :) but still i love it!!! :P... hehhehe...

Then The third was the fruit cuts... and plating... hmm... this was kinda basic only... should have been the 1st... hehehe.... :)... but still need some attention to detail when doing this... heheheh.. .:)

The fourth class was this morning... :P... we made watermelon carving... :P... hehehe... some flower at the top and leaves at the sides... damn tidious... takes time and need to pay attention when beeing thought of the method of doing.. :S... its beeing shown in stages when doing this... the chef shown us the first layer and stuff, then we follow... after done with one then goes the rest of the layers and stages... :P... turned out damn pretty... :P... i love it...

The Stages... :P... hehe...

The final product... :P.. hehehehe... :)

well... i love this class alot... coz it shows my capabilities of doing the carvings and shows my creativity... :P.... hehehe... starting from next week its gonna be ICE CARVING!!!!!! 4 classes of those!!!!! cant wait for it!!! since it is very very very interesting and i cant wait for it!!!!!!!!!!!
I wonder what are we going to carve out of the ice... hahahah... :P.... i love this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :P... heheheheh.. .:)