Today, I found my chicken noodle soup earrings. Given that the Jewish High Holidays are upon us, I decided I needed some Matzoh Ball Soup. Ambrosia. Ok, these are not for eating, but I'm pretty damn pleased with how these turned out.
This is my first attempts at making bowls of anything, so I'm pretty pleased. Here's how it all works:
Bowls are made of pearl clay, baked in the hollow-bead maker from Polyform. Bake first to hold liquid clay.
Matzoh balls are made out of a mix of white and ecru clay rolled into a ball and then rolled completely over a piece of 60 grit sandpaper for texture.
Carrots are a cylinder of bright, reddish orange, a very thin layer of super pale orange and a thicker layer of slightly more yellow orange.
Peas...well, they're round balls of pea green =p
Celery might be most delicate cane I've made. It's a celery green log of clay, with a divet squished in the middle to create the crescent shape. Then, a log of translucent solid clay laid inside. Then, make the marks of the celery ribs on the top of the green, and then put another layer of translucent around the whole thing as thin as you can roll it out. As you roll the cane, it settles into the ribs.
Broth is made with translucent liquid fimo, a much more translucent product than translucent liquid sculpey. Scrape some artist's chalks into the liquid fimo, I used a pure gold color. Mix it up with a piece of wire or toothpick or something, and you get a lovely broth. Then set your mazoh balls in the middle, and scatter veggies. You can either do multiple layers of liquid fimo to make the veggies on different layers, or push them down with a wire.
Next batch of bowls, I might make some noodles instead of matzoh balls. But I'm very pleased with how these came out.
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