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Chocolate art : drawing with chocolate

February 19th 2009 Posted at General
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Wednesday, february 18th 2009

As the course continues I learn new techniques to do things with chocolate.  Today was all about making drawings with chocolate.  3 colours are enough to make amazing things, although that you can always use other colours to make the drawings more spectacular.

I made a drawing of the Greek Parthenon with dark chocolate and white background and also a beaver with dark, milk and white chocolate.  The possibilities are almost endless.  I have been wondering how this kind of things were done.  Now I know it.  Check the result.

Sketched beaver

The Parthenon sketched on white chocolate

Almost anything can be sketched with chocolate as long you have a non trembling hand.  Trembling hands give trembling results.

The next thing might be a chocolate printer.  I know this exists but it is mainly used for printing pictures on chocolate and not printing chocolate itself.  Check it out here.

Enjoy the weekend

Alain

Chocolate and art – the practical stuff

February 12th 2009 Posted at General
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Wednesday, february 11th 2009

Last week we had some theoretical lessons about creating art pieces in chocolate.  This weeks lesson was hands on and practical.  Everybody knows that it’s Valentine’s day this saturday (february 14th 2009).  Because of this event we created a chocolate piece with this theme.

How do you start with a chocolate piece ?  First of all you need a stencil key set to cut out all pieces.  We use a fine cutter knife to cut out all pieces from a chocolate plate that is a few millimeter thick.  Once you have all pieces you have to glue them togheter, this is when the tricky part starts.  Glueing togheter is a bit delicate because if one pieces breaks the whole composition has to be made over again.

Once all has been glued togheter, the piece is sprayed with cocoabutter and chocolate to make it more realistic with shades.  A bit of colour can be used to give it the finishing touch.

This is the result :

With a bit of luck, my girlfriends valentine day will be great.

Enjoy

Alain

More exam pictures

February 12th 2009 Posted at General
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I received some more pictures about the exam I did a few weeks ago.  This are the creations of my collegue Xavier.

Cherries on alcohol dipped in white chocolate

Cherries and chocolate cups filled with mokka buttermass

Chocolate cups filled with buttermass

Art and chocolate

February 6th 2009 Posted at General
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Wednesday, february 4th 2009

Time is flying, it is already february. Today I started a new module : Art and chocolate.
Art and chocolate has always been a special craft. It needs a lot of imagination and creativity is also handy. The objects that you can create with chocolate is endless …

I do not have any pictures yet since this was mainly a theoretical lesson for me.
If you want to see some art check out the pictures I found on google

Next week I will have more information.

Cheers

Alain

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