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a hand holding a small soap mold with a baby in it's stomach on the window sill

An easy and inexpensive way to make small scale sculpture at home. You will need: 1. A bar of soap 2. A sharp point [like a needle or compass] to lightly scratch on your design 3. A teaspoon to scrape away large areas of soap 4. A small flat screwdriver to scrape away smaller areas of soap. [A metal nail file could also be used here - improvise!] As soap is soft you do not need to use knives or other potentially dangerous equipment.

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a white mask sitting on top of a carpet

I did my soap carving last week and am very pleased with how it has turned out. I made my younger sister join in and gave her a little art lesson as we were doing it. She wanted to do something for her art summer project, India, so i helped her carve an elephant. I started on my idea of the cameo face, so i found a photograph of the side of my head/face and sketched onto the bar of soap. Then i got my rusty carving tools out and started hacking away at it, and before i knew it the table was…

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a sailboat figurine sitting on top of a wooden table next to a towel

Soap carving is one of those crafts a lot of kids do once or twice during childhood. Few people, though, master the pastime quite like Janet Bolyard, author of “The Complete Book of Soap Carving.” Bolyard credits sculptor Brenda Putnam for elevating soap carving into an American art form. Looking for a medium to sculpt other than wax or clay, Putnam settled on soap and Procter & Gamble helped her procure large blocks of the malleable substance to work on. But that didn’t make the pastime…

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a piece of cheese sitting on top of a wooden table

Well we finally finished our Michelangelo study with some soap sculpting! A lot of thought went into that dynamic title of this posting ey? Bet you were wondering what this post would be about until I explained it. We started with a bar of Earthwise natural soap cause I only have natural soaps in our house and of course never thought to google a good soap for carving. Thankfully these held up really well under the carving process. These particular bars were a lemongrass and manuka honey…

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three plastic spoons shaped like fish and car on them, one is pink with white paint

Fish, boat, car Originally uploaded by deludedbeeFor an evaluation worth 12 pts: a) have a full-size bar of soap b) demonstrate awareness of the lesson on relief and relief sculpture. c) clean up desk and floor area smartly.

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a hand holding an orange soap with flowers on it

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an elephant made out of white clay sitting on a table

So yesterday I went along to ArtLab at Rugby Museum and Art Gallery. More information about ArtLab can be found on This workshop was all about soap stone carving. Inspired by handmade carvings arou…

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