Cha Shu Ramen

15-17 October 2012

Chu Shu Ramen

I have remade the ramen. For this improved version, I did not do the flying chopstick because I wanted to define the bowl and the details on the toppings and ramen. The overall size was much smaller than the 1st attempt ramen.

Sushi

7-8 August 2012

Sushi (Salmon, Prawn and Tamago)

During the first attempt, I added too much translucent clay to the salmon and prawn, they turned out too translucent.

On the second attempt, I tried to reduce the translucent but now the prawn turned out too white and the colour was not right, too reddish. I think it was not my day, other than the outcome of my sushi work, I accidently spilled a huge amount of varnish on my working area. I had to quickly used some of the varnish from the mat before it dried up and not realizing that I over varnished my work. 

I also realized that the baked polymer marble clay plate turned yellowish after rebake. So that mean I can’t rebake any light colour clay, cos it is quite obvious. I have two options, it is either I bake non-baked plate together with the food or I had to glue the food on the baked plate. I need to experiment them before I decide which I prefer. 

I will need to work on it again, hopefully I can get better result next round. 

Salmon Sashimi

1-2 August 2012

Salmon Sashimi

My friends did some plates and lemon cane for me. Though they are new with polymer clay making, but they did a very good job. I am glad to have them helping me out with what I am still weak at. We intent to sell some of our works so stay tune for more details.

To incorporate with the plate and cane I got, I made some salmon sashimi. At first, I over estimated the size, they were too big for the plate. I had to redo the salmon again. I was very happy with the end product.

Salmon Sashimi Earrings.

These are the plate and teapot set that I have made. They were badly done TT.TT

Lots of dishware and cutlery done by my friends ^^

Start my blog today ^^

I will be starting my blog today ^^ Below-mentioned are what I have done over the past four days (11-14 July 2012).

11 July 2012

Lemon Cane

For the past one month, I am busy doing research on clay and start gathering for the items that I needed. I have been wondering what should I start first? Fruit cane, bread, cake, ice-cream or crepe? 

On 11 July 2012, I am very excited as this is my first clay making. I decided to start on lemon cane. I slowly unwrapped my clay and cut the desire size that I needed. My mood went down when I cut it, the clay I purchased online is not fresh and very dry plus I forgot to wipe the blade, it is dirty. I accidently cut my index finger when I try to wipe the blade clean. Sigh... it was not my day. I spend some time kneading and adding oil to soften my clay. After done, both my thumb and index fingers were cramp and painful. 

After conditioned my clay, I followed closely to the tutorial I found online. It didn’t turn out well, all the colour start merging together after I rolled out the clay. I did not take a photo of it so unable to show how badly I have done.

12 July 2012

Cha Shu Ramen

Due to the insufficient white, translucent and yellow clay, I can’t make another lemon cane. I decided to make ramen today. This is not my idea, I followed the tutorial from Toni Ellison. Mine did not turn out as perfect as hers. The shape of the bowl is lopsided and I accidentally touched it without knowing that my hands were dirty. The ramen I made was too thick, it looked like udon. 

I spend about 3 hours making it and I accidently cut myself again. 

Attached is the end product.

13 July 2012

Cinnamon Roll

Due to the all the kneading for the past two days, both my fingers were very cramp now. I am not sure is it because I am not use to the kneading or it is due to the stale clay. Think I should invest on a pasta machine. 

I will be making cinnamon roll today. It is a lot more simple than making ramen. The plate is purchased online.

14 July 2012

Baking and varnishing my clay

I finally got an oven for clay today. My plan for today is baking and varnishing. 

I had hard time figuring the temperature to bake because I did not buy an oven thermometer. And it is very confusing because some website baked their clay at lower temperature with longer time, while others were higher temperature with shorter time. I did not know which to follow. 

Initially, I followed the clay instruction but my clay did not harden when they were out from the oven so I decided to turn up the temperature. This time, they turned out hard. Finally I got the result I wanted. I left them cool for about an hour before varnishing. ^^