Sourdough Art
I started my sourdough journey in March of 2024. My good friend Jennifer introduced me to the process of making sour dough. The most surprising part was the fact that I had to keep the dough alive!! Taking care of the Mother turned into an obsession that has so far produced around 60 loaves of sourdough bread.
I continued to experiment and found different ways to express my art with these sour doughs. The way the dough is cut (scoring) before baking can produce many different patterns and shapes on the baked bread. I stumbled across a technique that involves painting with food based paint straight onto the dough. I paint the image before I pop it into the oven and the final result is an edible painted art work on delicious sour dough bread.
This was my first attempt at painting on sourdough. The picture here shows what the dough looks like before I put it into the oven. I have always loved Ravens and was lucky enough to sit with the most famous Ravens I know of, The Ravens that live at the Tower of London. So I just glopped some crap on the bread, and waited see how it would turn out after the bake.
Here are some of my loaves of bread laying in some grass.
