Final Project

Ahhhh! The final project was quite frustrating. My original original idea was to make a really unhappy looking cow out of seitan but seitan is expensive and I'm broke so that was a fail. My next idea was to put my face in clay so I had a mold of my face and then fill it wit chocolate so I could make a chocolate Amy face! So I got clay and it was kind of hard so my room mate suggested I just play with it forever until it softened. Well... it never softened :( I mushed it for about a half hour but it just kept on breaking! So my face mold looked like a blob which wasn't very fun. Last minute I decided to make a stencil, something I had never done before, and then use chocolate to make prints with it. I chose my dad's face because his favorite food is chocolate. Like my other two plans this one kind of failed too. The only vegan chocolate they had (which ended up not being vegan) was filled with nuts and currants so when I put it in the microwave it started burning and smoking. Then after waiting for the smoke to settle I poured the chocolate on my stencil and it pretty much just ended up looking like a chocolate plate because the chocolate leaked under the stencil. My second attempt was a stamp with the stencil which came out kind of scary looking. My third attempt was an outline of the stencil in chocolate but that didn't work at all because after I lifted the stencil up I realized it was never touching the plate because the burnt chunks of nuts and berries were keeping it off. My last attempt was the most successful (though still pretty ugly,) I pretty much just painted chocolate around the stencil with my finger. Oh well... it was fun though! I really enjoyed coming to class and seeing everyone's work :) Te broccoli chocolate rocks diorama reminded me of  Carl Warner's food landscapes:


I like the cauliflower clouds :)


(not a vegetarian friendly land)