Carving for beginners: description of various techniques and tools
This article is for those who want to master the art of carving - creating beautiful carved ornaments for dishes from vegetables and fruits. Of course, this will require practice and experience, but all the masters started with something. In the article we present for you photos and video materials that help to master carving for beginners.
Do not expect unbelievable results at once. Knowing the techniques and basic techniques of carving, having the basic knives for work, you can already create small compositions. Therefore, beginners will be useful to theoretically shake, learn more about this art, about tools, see photos and video lessons. This will help you to determine your goals, with the possibilities: not everyone will have the patience and time for big complex compositions, and not everyone will be able to purchase the entire large toolkit. So, let's look at the basic techniques of this art.
Die cutting
Die cutting is an elementary, simplest carving tool. The video clearly shows how to use them. Even a child will understand, right? By the way, you can bring your children to this fascinating occupation.
Tools for spiral cutting
A more complex group of tools for carving are devices for spiral cutting from vegetables and fruits. This serpentinorez, spiral and curlers. They are designed to cut out edible spirals and garlands. At the same time, working with them is as simple as possible, and the error is almost unreal.
Here it is necessary to pay attention that each tool performs only one kind of cutting. And to evaluate the work of these items can be on the rollers, presented below.
Flute flutes
Flute blades are narrow grooves that are made with special knives for fluting. In the hands of a professional, this knife can make real miracles, and newcomers who learn the basics of carving at home can start practice with simple symmetrical incisions.
For example, in this way, you can draw a lemon for a cocktail. It is not only beautiful, but also practical: it is very convenient to take sourness from the dish.
A schematic flower can be created if you do not cut the flutes to the end of the fruit.
Knife-pierers
This kind of tool is used, first of all, for peeling. The blade of this knife with fine, sharply sharpened teeth, is capable of cutting a very thin layer. If you make a very long strip with it, you can, for example, turn it into a rose and decorate the dish.
Calibration knife
Another simple carving tool for beginners. It has a wavy blade, so figured cutting is very easy even from the hardest vegetables and fruits. More on this in the video tutorial.
Using the Noisette Knife
The video shows step by step the use of a noisette knife for carving fruit from small beautiful spheres. It is also used to extract the "insides" from the fruit.
Multifunctional tools
The most convenient option for beginners, probably, are simple tools that perform a variety of tasks while they are rather inexpensive. For example, in this way you can work with a vegetable grinder.
Other materials
Carving on soap is also widely spread. Working with it is much easier than with vegetables and fruits, since it has the same density. It is good to hone the skill, because it is also cheaper. By the way, tools can be used the same as for vegetable carving, as well as tools for woodcarving.
A master class on how to cut a piece of soap from a daisy.
Another kind - carving from paper. Cut it is possible as symmetrical drawings( remember, in the childhood cut out paper snowflakes?), And create whole pictures, making thin cutouts with a stationery knife.