Soap Carving

Today I decided to create soap carving! Based on COVID 19 to they something different and to experiment as well as creating art on anything that isn't paper or computerised and to try something different. I have carved soap before a few years ago for work for Secondary school and looking back at Work by Jessica Walsh who is a graphic designer I have done some research on and some of her work- especially her recent work is featuring soap with lettering in her work I wanted to create something similar but actually carving the lettering onto the soap- it was honestly like cutting/carving Lino accept it being soap! Why soap? I used soap because one of the reasons that COVID 19 has been spreading is because of touch and people's germs and they have urged people to wash their hands more so carving the soap saying Wash hands I thought was a perfect idea.  This isn't exactly a poster design per say but it was an experiment that I thought worked Very well with this topic for this project and was fun to do. As well as this design concept making me think more out the box, more logical thinking but it also enabled me to use another sector in the art industry being Photography which is also a medium I love exploring in my work- so for me this experiment was an exciting one for me.

Here is my Photos of my Soap Carvings:

I took these photos on My EOS 1300D Canon Camera, using my Soap Carving, a sink and tap- with running water with some of the photographs with myself showing a few shots with my hand in the water- promoting hand washing to prevent the spread of COVID 19! This These photographs are all taken with slightly different perspectives and angles, some with the tap on some with the tap off, the soap being in varied positions and some shots will feature my hand some doesn't feature my hand in the photos, prepare to be amazed. 

Still 1: Soap & Tap 
 Simplistic shot with the Wash hands on the soap on display, promoting Hand washing.



Still 2: Soap & Tap
Simplistic shot with Soap again on display with the tap running.



Still 3: Soap & Tap
Simplistic shot with Soap again on display with the tap running this time with my hand also in this shot. 

Still 4: Soap & Tap
Same kind of shot as Still 1 but the soap is angled and displayed in a different perspective.

Still 5: Soap, Hand & Tap
Basically the same type of imagery accept you can see more of my hand.

 Still 6: Hand, Soap and tap running
Tap is running more and faster and you can see more water. 

Still 7: A close up of soap and tap
Close up perspective of Soap but you can only see Wash. with the tap turned off and part of my hand showing. 

Still 8: Running water, Soap and a hand
Fat running water- can really see the detail of the running water with the soap behind the running water with my hand in the water also but infant of the soap- promoting Hand washing.

Still 9: Simple still of a soap in slow flowing water
A simplistic photograph of soap in my hand with the tap running slowly. 

Still 9: Switched off tap
The soap and hand held in a different perspective and angle! You can see half of the tap in this photo. 

Still 10: Soap and Tap water
A close up of soap with running tap water landing on the soap.

Still 11: Another perspective
Soap and Water on my hand at a closeup in another perspective.

Still 12: Hand-eye soap & water
Closeup of my hand, the soap and some water running from a tap.

Still 13: Hand and Soap
Another perspective of this series of photos: Bar of Soap and my Hand in the sink. 
Everything but the dripping tap. 

Here is some more photographs of this series but taken from my mobile below:

 
Here is three more variations of this series taken from my phone in a new perspective using a different device for photographing. 

Jessica Walsh's Soap art on Instagram

This was the piece designed by Jessica Walsh 
Jessica Walsh's Art

This is the piece that Inspired me to create design a concepts like this. It also inspired me to carve a soap to create art. I edited one of my photographs from this series above in a similar aesthetic to Jessica Walsh’s art.


Photo edited art inspired by Jessica Walsh

I created this piece by using the Hue saturation setting on Adobe Photoshop to experiment and to see if I can create art in a similar aesthetic to Jessica Walsh’s artwork using the purple hue saturations.

Stay Safe

Stay Sane


These two soap carvings Stay Safe and Stay Sane photos are inspired By Jessica Walsh's design concepts and I created these carvings on the same bar of soap so you read it as stay safe and flip the soap over and you get the stay sane. 

Here is a clip below demonstrating how I carved the soap but this time carving the word COVID. 

COVID Soap carving clip.
Enjoy watching my discoveries. 

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