PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Things you need
- ivory soap
- clay sculpting tools, toothpicks
- Pencil and paper for designing
With a pencil or pointed tool, draw design directly on soap.
For large projects join two cakes of soap. In carving soap keep the silhouette simple. Don’t carve too long in one place; turn the work often. Hold in different lights and at different angles. Keep the heavy masses at the bottom. Soap may be colored with waterproof India ink.
Place a cake of soap on a piece of paper and draw outline of soap on paper. Draw design on paper, within the pencilled outline. Trace drawing on soap.