The amazing thing about sugar sculptures is that you probably wouldn't know it was sugar unless you were told. Well done, it looks just like blown glass. There are so many methods too. Casting, blowing, pulling. Blowing, is obviously very similar to glass blowing, whereas in pulling, the artists mold the pieces by hand once they're cooled. It's so dangerous, of course, because you're heating this sugar to up to 300 degrees. Rosemarie has the scars to prove it!
I'm so fascinated by this art, because it seems so amazing how much detail can be captured using sugar!
You can see on the top orb, the column coming down, and the fish- the varying colors and shading. A lot of food art incorporates using painting and drawing techniques (especially airbrushing). I love how much the colors pop with the sugars shine and the changing levels from clear to opaque. Like regular sculpting, sugar sculptures seem to incorporate a lot of techniques to manipulate the sugar into shapes and tones.
This guy used spiraled wire as a based shape to blow the sugar through to get the orange corkscrews.
Such beautiful sculptures that only last from days to months!