Materials: Polymer Clay, Spray Paint
Well, it's almost Valentines Day, so I think we should do something romantic here in the Fake-n-Bake kitchen, and what could be more romantic than making fake olives? What's that, you say? 'Almost anything is more romantic than fake olives? Even saving the cherry post from a few weeks ago would have made more sense- at least they are red like valentines!' To you, dear reader, I say this. Shut up! Olives are plenty romantic and, more importantly, I don't have anything else to blog about at the moment. So, there.
These olives, like the hilarious white olives from the
Dirty Martinis post, are made from Sculpey, a polymer clay that hardens when baked. For these olives, I decided to start with polymer clay that was closer in color to the finished product. I was hoping that this would be exactly the right color as is, but we will talk about that a bit later.
The first thing I did was to shape the olives. What makes an olive look like an olive?
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| The oblong shape, of course... |
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| A pit....(I used the hollow end of a pen to make this) |
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| The x shape made by the pitting machine.... |
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| ...and a pimento! |
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| Hehehe! Olives on parade! |
Once I had sculpted the olives, I baked them according to the directions on the Sculpey package. This worked well, but I found that the olives didn't look exactly right. For one, they lost much of their sheen in the baking process. Also, in comparing them to real olives, I found them to a be a bit dark in color. To solve both of these issues, I used a bit of Olive Bright Design Master spray paint to brighten them up, and add a bit of variation of color over each olive. (Part of what often gives fake food away is unnaturally uniform color.)
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| Aluminum foil olive trough! | | |
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Once the paint dried, all that was left was to put the olives in a bowl, and set them on the bar cart next to those
maraschino cherries I made.
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| Olive you 'til the end of time. |
Happy Valentines, y'all. Olive you lots.
These olives, like the hilarious white olives from the Dirty Martinis post, are made from Sculpey, a polymer clay that hardens when baked. For these olives, I decided to start with polymer clay that was closer in color to the finished product. I was hoping that this would be exactly the right color as is, but we will talk about that a bit later.
