Charming Miniatures - 'beautifully Small' (realistic Miniature Food - Polymer Clay)

Hi , I'm Rupashree adam. I'm 21. I just completed my four year graduation in visual fine arts from a prestigious college from chennai, India. I used to watch my mother roll out rotis (flattened wheat bread), at which point I would take some dough to make small figurines. All of a sudden I found that I was developing a liking and felt I had an inherent ability to turn maxi foods to micro mini's. During some of my visits abroad, I used to go to souvenir shops and was amazed to see fruits, vegetables, scooters and doll houses in micro form, which made me very passionate and determined to pursue this form of art if I could be really good at it. This was the beginning.

I then researched for nearly a year on various clay options like terracotta, air dry clay, paper clay. I didn't find these of interest to me, then came across polymer clay which is bakeable and more delicate, which with my sculpting and shading, gives the almost near real effect.

I have been a foodaholic and south indian cuisine was my most favourite, apart from the junk food. I therefore felt it would be good to turn into small, what I loved eating the most though it's the most challenging in view of the variety of accompaniments to the main dish viz sambar (curried lentils), chutney (coconut sauce) for an idli (steamed rice cakes) or dosai (rice panckes). And also my passion for cooking made me decide to go in for food miniatures mostly from south India, also laterly cakes and a few continental dishes.

I want to turn into miniature form, food from my country and more importantly my state. There are people in other parts of the world who turn out continental items and India being a country with a vast and varied cuisine. I have enough on my plate to keep me occupied for a long time. Ofcourse in between if I see anything good even if it is specific to a continental form of cuisine, I would attempt it, if I liked it. To sum up, I want to turn into miniature, all the variety of Indian food I love to eat myself.

That is the reason I took a while to host my blog 'www.charmingminiatures.com'. I started sculpting in 2012 and now I feel like I've come quite a long way. I never thought I'd be able to make any food look real but somehow I think I managed to succeed though I'm not fully there as of yet :) I have a long way to go.

To me the greatest challenge was to make it look real both in terms of shape and colour. I realised you need a lot patience and the ability to take failure without being frustrated. During the period that I was refining this art, after sculpting a perfect dish, the baking temperature let me down. It has to be so very precise or my hours of hardwork would have gone up in smoke. It's happened to me quite a few times in the beginning, but fortunately I've mastered this part of it.

My blog - www.charmingminiatures.com. (Please feel free to give in your feedback. I'd really appreciate it)

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