Duration: Open ended, every Thursday
Where: Bellingham, London
Time: approx. 10:00 - 15:00
This course is open-ended: the range of skills to learn is limited only by your own imagination.
With a firm grip now on a wide range of skills, the student will progress to the advanced course, learning the most strikingly beautiful of the ancient arts. Larger fruits and vegetables, such as water melon, sweet melon and pumpkin, lend themselves to a wider display of the skills, and the student will be taught to carve full-size flowers and patterned designs on the surface of the fruit and to embellish the florals with lettering to give the decoration that extra personal touch.
Pumpkin and swede are firm-fleshed and fine-grained, and it is in these vegetables that the carving of table-centrepiece ducks, fish and birds will be taught They also lend themselves to being hollowed, and students will learn how to make beautiful vases to contain the flower shapes of the Intermediate course, or bowls for soups or other dishes.
Total price includes full set of four specialised carving knives.
**Total price excludes fruit & vegetable. Please come prepared with this to your class.