so, what's cooking?

so....i messed around with air dry clay today. Grace resin clay and sukerukun, depending on what i needed to achieve. Sukerukun is more translucent than Grace, so i used it for the above 'century egg'. i know i messed up the yolk bit, it's supposed to be a tad greyer or greener? but i figure, hey, it's not gonna be a stand alone item...so i don't care :X 'sides, i also messed up on the 'white' (black? ha!) bits of the egg, not translucent enough. but we'll see after it's fully dried.

this dastardly thing is deceptively difficult to achieve realistically. it's supposed to be char siew, or roast pork. kinda hard to capture the texture with the camera...and definitely needs more tweaking. but again, it's not gonna be a stand alone item anyway....

julienned ginger!!! i -think- this is sukerukun. i forgets :( i love love how the colour turned out, IIRC i think i mixed yellow + ochre oil paints.

i think i lucked out on the colour for the pork. i started off making minced pork, realised i had too much paint mixed, so used the remainder to make larger pork pieces and slices. i really like the texture on the slices!!! CHO HEYPI!

and, my fave of the lot, the shredded chicken! the wonderful thing about ADC is that i don't really have to muck about and be too precise since it provides different textures at different stages of drying, this i believe is pure grace + a smidge of leftover 'pork' colour. using my craft knife, i just 'tear' teeny weeny pieces of clay and 'shred' it up, JUSLYKCHIKEN!!!! LOL? XD srsly, i am so happy i took time to use up the remainder of my ADC before it totally gives up on me.

forgot to take close up pics of the mushroom. i didn't bother making individual mushrooms, cos these are meant to be ingredients in a dish, or a few dishes? CAN YOU GUESS WHAT I'M MAKING? bwa ha ha! ;) i took a flame to the grace and blistered it on one side, and then further coloured it brown with water-based ink pen i got from Daiso. what a stink it made though! and thinner parts of it also caught on fire :X there's a funky stench in my room now, good thing i had the following yummy treat BEFORE i started all the above 'experimentation' :D i learnt the burning trick from littlecatwhitewhite's fantastic tutorial site, the link is in one of the lists to the right of my blog, but i don't know if the actual tutorial where i picked up the idea from is still there??




youngest bro popped into my room earlier today with this omnommy treat! cream puff from beard papa, papa beard, gah i always mix it up, and i'm in a mad rush to go out, am kinda late meeting bf. i snuck one of my older ADC swan puffs onto the treat just for fun, kekeke! i know, that's kinda gross, but....i am kinda gross! XD

my neck/shoulder muscles are still knotted up like crazy, but i'm also popping painkillers like crazy, probably explains why i feel so..so....i give up i gotta go BYE!!!!!!!!!!!