How To Carve Soap

Use a skewer or toothpick to draw the outline of a turtle on your soap.

How to carve soap. Start using your knife to remove material from the bar of soap using your etchings as guidelines. A bar of soap 2. Do the overall shape first.

Draw design on paper within the pencilled outline. Gently scrape off any brandingwording thats imprinted on the top of the bar of soap. Hold in different lights and at different angles.

Turning your soap over to do both sides. Ad We use only Natural and Sustainable ingredients in all of our Soaps Candles and More. In this art lesson tutorial Ill explain how to carve a basic bar of bath soap into a sculpture of an animal using simple ceramic tools.

In a sense youre digging your design out of the bar of soap. Draw a quick sketch of what you want your final object to look like. You can also gently remove the marker with the wet Q-tip.

A good way to approach this is to imagine you are excavating some delicate artifact. And that is it. DraW your design ON both sides of THE SOAP 2.

Always unwrap a fresh soap when you are getting kids started out on soap carving. Turn the work often. Ad We use only Natural and Sustainable ingredients in all of our Soaps Candles and More.