Making fake food yum!!!!

I put this picture in my blog as i thought it was relevant to our study.Vermeer`s paintings-THE ASTRONOMER- (1668) as it is one of my favorite Vermeer painting the colours are phenomenal and the light coming in the window and the drapary on the table and on the astronomer it is so beautifuly painted ,wow what a painting

I have now started uni and so far I'm enjoying it . Don't like the traveling to much but it is something that i gonna have to get used to!.

The first brief is about Properties and Transformation so we are learning how to make fake food for the stage and or film sets. This I'm finding fascinating, so far Ive made a kind of baguette . We had a rectangle of polystyrene which we cut out on the band saw into a kind of baguette shape, then with a rasp shaved of the polystyrene to make a clearer shape then made the grooves in the top to give a more realistic bread shape ,to do this still using the rasp tools but a thinner and rounder then the flat one we used to start with. When i was happy with the shape used a reasonably rough sand paper and smoothed off all over the bread to get rid of any hard edges or loose bobbly bits. ( i got to say this sage i was covered in snow from the polystyrene and my flat mate is loving me leaving little white bits every where!!!!)

The next stage is to paint on pva glue, (watered down with about ten% water to the glue basically so its reasonably runny) then paint this on the bread and stick on squares of muslin then paint more glue on top, do this all over except underneath as this wont be seen. cut of any loose edges and wait for this to dry.

The next stage is to paint it with white emulsion paint.

I got as far as this and will paint it next week. I found in the baker an almost identical loaf to the one i made so i bought it to photograph which i will use to put in my sketch book as research.

I'm looking forward to making other things and learning some new techniques.

The brief is to study Vermeer`s paintings and the 17th Century Dutch Baroque style mainly paying close attention to the food and small objects like jugs and bowls and boxes that Vermeer uses in his paintings and too study the colours and textures that he uses and to make these objects look realistic.