I participated in a Songkran Festival which celebrates the Thai Traditional New Year and is also known as the Water Festival. A group of us carved fruits and vegetables to make a lovely display table and I thought that you might enjoy these photos. They may give you some inspiration and ideas for carvings of your own.

Thai melon carving display with carrot birds

Thai carved honeydew with carrot Bird

Watermelon with wavy zig-zag petals

Melon, purple diakon, and carrot flowers

Purple Diakon carving

Basket of carved carrot flowers by Tym

Diakon bird (dyed) by Tammy with carrot and diakon flowers

Nita with her teacher Tammy

Another view of the Thai fruit carving display

Basket arrangement of Thai carved carrots, purple diakon and honeydew

Closer look at bird carved from diakon and dyed yellow and green.

Carved and dyed daikon flowers by Tammy

white diakon bird by Tammy

More Thai melon carvings and radish bouquet

Some of the fruit carvers at Songkran Festival including Montana, Tammy, Nita and Tip
Click here to view the Thai Fruit Carving at the 2011 Songkran festival.
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Hi Nita,
The carved fruits and vegetables are exquisite! Thank you for sending me the email /photos.
Joann
that is the more beutiful fruit carving I am seen in very long tine, is very difecult to do. thank you for thos pituer.
casi viller
Wow, amazing carvings! That festival looks fun, my wife and I would love to come to a event like that…hey why don’t you organize something like that and we can come for lessons???
PS Im getting pretty good with my tools…ha…look out master carvers!
Awsome! And what a gift to have a circle of friends to carve with.
It is very beautiful art work, I amazed for you have done with all the fruit. I just wonder how long it take you to do all of that? I guess, I don’t have to go to Thailand to learn fruit and vegetables carving.
I wish I could claim the credit but I was just one of a group of carvers that made all these lovely carvings. A few of the carvers are shown in one of these photos.
Simply magical!
Hi Nita.Thank you for photos.I like them. I like a third and a forth carvings on the first line.They are amazing.I learn watermelon carving myfile:///E:/DCIM/101MSDCF/DSC08812.JPGself.These are some of my carvings.
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Hi Nita,
These carvings are fantastic! all the best! and thank you so much for your email. I am sure it was fun to do all these carvings with the Thai ladies who i know that we cannot come close to can we?
To Waffa at edibleglamour.com, Based on the photos on your website you do some pretty spectacular carvings yourself.
Hello Nita,
Thanks for sending amazing art works. All carvings are beautiful and full of creating.
My wife loves that too.
Nita, you are amazing and I love your work. I do really enjoy fruit carving and you have been a great help to me. Your work is amazing and very easy to follow. Thank you for sending the photos and I can’t wait for your next video 🙂
Very well done. Your carving is amazed. I have seen also great works at http://www.carving-art.pl and http://www.lartedellintaglio.it
Nita, you are professional like those guy’s.
Michelle
Thank you for your kind compliments. I was only one of a group of women who made these beautiful carvings.
Thank you for sharing the sites that you mentioned. There are some fabulous works of art shown there, too. They are a good source for ideas for advanced carvers.
NITA; Thank you for sending me the email /photos I like very mach
THANK YOU FOR 1000000 TIMES
all the carving are amazing and they are beautifully arranged in a systematic manner. they are really good looking. It shows your hard work and full devotion.