Soap Art

Hello!
Going to bed is going to be so easy tonight. I didn’t bother getting dressed today and happily achieved Slothdom.
I had quite the epic soaping day yesterday trying out something I wanted to experiment with for a while.
Lucky I set aside a day as it took about 5 hours to do.

Anyway – above (Dodgy photo haha) was just a quick mix of grated soap from previous scraps and a heart embed I’d made a week or so back.

I also wanted to share with you the ‘shimmy’ soap that I tried again – and got quite a different effect which I loved.

Definitely a pattern I’ll want to continue to use and play about with.

I don’t usually like to trim and nicely finish off my soaps – I hate the waste.
But you can see the difference at the sides between the trimmed and the untrimmed.
Obviously as its used, the bold stripes will appear, but the trimmed version has ‘shelf appeal’

Right… what was yesterdays project?
I’ve watched a number of soap videos about how people create a scene through their loaf and I’ve thought its fascinating. And daunting.

But the very talented lady (Lisa!) from ‘I Dream in Soap’ put up an excellent tutorial with a nice simple design to work with, so I thought I would give it a go.
(If you have soapy interests, check out her tutorial here – She is an insanely talented lady, so worth looking at some of her creations!)

When the cardboard ‘scrapers’ are put together, you can see more what its about – a mountain scene with hills and a road. (Honestly)

When testing if the scrapers fit ok I realised that the last one needed some sides to keep it in line.

Here is one of the scrapers in action. I have poured in the blue soap mixture (sky) and its quite thick, so as I scrape the design across, it’s leaving the correct indents (Hopefully mountain shaped)

Then I’ve squeezed some white into the tips to create snow on the mountain peaks

Then I had to go and have a hot chocolate and a sandwich because my white mixture wasn’t nearly as thick as I thought it was… so I had to wait.

I muffed the grey layer a bit with not enough mixture, so I recut the next two scrapers so they went in a bit deeper.
I then muffed the greens. Too much dark and way not enough light. So the last green layer got a bit mixed just so I could fill it all up.

Waiting to cut was agony.
I wasn’t expecting a super work of art since this was my first go, but I was really pretty excited nonetheless!!

Not bad eh? I rather look forward to trying this again!
Hope you’ve had a lovely weekend!
Cheers!