1. Soap Carving

2. http://www. slideshare

3. Relief Carvings

4. “In the Round” Carvings

5. What to expect…
Fine details are difficult to achieve. Instead, you are trying to capture the general form of your subject.

6. Relief is the easier of the two, but you may do either relief or in-the-round.
No matter which type you choose, you must create a design on paper first. Keep it SIMPLE!
Examples:

7. TIPS for SUCCESS
Have a clear idea of what you are trying to create (that’s why we draw pictures first)
Cut away small pieces at a time. If you try to cut too much at once your soap will very likely break. You can’t glue soap back together!!
Take your time and think – Carving is more difficult than it appears.

9. World’s Largest Soap Sculpture
Guinness World Book of Records 2006 Ivory Sculpture
World’s Largest Soap Sculpture
American artist Bev Kirk carved a soap sculpture of a winged pig entitled “Sudsie, A Boar of Soap,” in Cincinnati, Ohio, in September Sudsie was carved from a block of Ivory soap measuring five-by-five-by-six feet. The sculpture weighed 7,000 pounds or the same as 26,666 bars of classic Ivory soap!