Appetizer Tray

Hi! Here is the Appetizer tray, like I promised in my last  post:

The center dish with gray mushies is pickled herring. The yellow dish at about 4 o'clock on a clock is egg yolks.the white dish at about 10 o'clock is hard boiled egg whites. To start out, I cut a thin, large circle ( about 1 3/4 inches in diameter) out of white clay. I next made 7 tiny white dishes which I placed on top of my white circle. Then I could begin to make the food. To make the herring, egg yolks, and egg whites, I finely grated clay (gray for herring, yellow for yolks, white for egg white) with a cheese grater, then chopped it to make it extra fine. I piled the crumbly clay into a dome shape, white on one dish, yellow on another, and gray on another. Next, I made red cabbage, chicken, and venison strips. The cabbage is the dish at 6 o'clock, the chicken strips are at 12 o'clock, and the venison is at about 8 o'clock. To make these, I first rolled out clay (wine red for cabbage, beige for chicken, darker brownish beige for venison) into thin strips. Using a sharp craft knife, I sliced strips of clay and layered it onto my dishes. For the last plate (at 1 1/2 o'clock) I made grapes. I mixed translucent clay with just a touch of dark green. I made tiny balls of this and layered them in a dome. After all my plates were done, I took dark clay and made watercress bunches by rolling tiny balls of dark green clay and flattening them. After flattening my circles, I crinkled them up and placed tons of them inbetween each dish on my appetizer tray. Lastly, I made tiny nasturtium flowers with yellowy reddish orange clay and placed a few of them on my tray. Oila!!!! After lots of work and time, my appetizer tray was finally completed! I hope you like my tray! Please comment below! Bye!