SMF January 2019 SOAP Challenge - DOTS!

[SaltedFig]

The DOTS Entry Thread is open!

Don't worry if you haven't finished ... the Entry Thread will stay open until 11:59pm 28th January 2019.
Entrants are welcome to add or change the entry photo, right up until then

I can't wait to see what everyone has created!

 

[KiwiMoose]

Yay! Can I ask if we are allowed more than one photo of the same soap? Or only one photo?

 

[SaltedFig]

You can enter as many photo's as you like, but you have to pick just one for people to vote on

 

[Meena]

Excited for you all, and to see what you came up with!!

 

[SaltedFig]

@KiwiMoose - You did an amazing job converting your rock art into soap art!

 

[szaza]

@KiwiMoose your soaps are amazing!!!

 

[Dawni]

@KiwiMoose, these, by far, have got to be my favorite of your creations! I love them! I'd keep em on display and never let anyone use them lol

No but seriously, I love mandalas and used to do them in mehndi, on hands n feet when I was younger, as a way to earn extra cash. These bring back memories.......

 

[Zing]

@KiwiMoose So I thought your previous work was something -- this is just completely off the charts! I have no words.

 

[dibbles]

@KiwiMoose WOW! I'm so glad you tried painting the mandala soaps. They are amazing!!

 

[KiwiMoose]

@Misschief I LOVE your soap! See now to me - that's creative. I had always wondered how to do that 'frame' effect and now I know. That's a lot of work right there.

 

[SaltedFig]

@Misschief Those panels are ingenious! Love the design

 

[artemis]

Here are the pictures of what my entry soap really looks like. Bonus pic of the little round leftover bar with the left over soap balls in the top. They smell wonderful! Lilac and Lilies purchased from Bulk Apothecary.

 

[lenarenee]

Kiwi, when I see lots of dots it makes me quite dizzy so I can't look at your soaps for very long. But I'm dying to know what tool you used to apply the dots, and did you score or mark the soap with the design first?

I think the half black and white is the perfect base for your design! Just lovely!

 

[dibbles]

@artemis You shouldn't have told us the bars fell apart - the entry photo looks like they are perfect! I'm sorry the mica foiled your efforts, but at least you will have some good smelling pieces that are a pretty color to use.

 

[KiwiMoose]

Kiwi, when I see lots of dots it makes me quite dizzy so I can't look at your soaps for very long. But I'm dying to know what tool you used to apply the dots, and did you score or mark the soap with the design first?

I think the half black and white is the perfect base for your design! Just lovely!

Thank you Lenarenee - don't look too long, we can't have you getting dizzy!
I used the same dotting tools that I use for my rock painting ( I ordered them from a woman in Canada who, coincidentally, is from New Zealand). I do all my painting freehand usually with no 'plan', just let the design emerge as it will. In the case of these soaps I did cut a circle out of paper and snip a hole in the centre so I could mark where the centre of the soap was to start. I don't usually have to do this on my rocks because they are not perfectly symmetrical in shape.
Mandala_Dotting_Tools_(size_1-16).html

 

[lenarenee]

Those are cool! My young one might be interested in this. I simply couldn't stand to do it - dizzy or not. Too much detail and patience required and rocks/soap would be hurled through the window!

 

[SaltedFig]

@artemis, I really like your little round pond of golden dots!
(Mind you, the soaps you entered are beautiful ... I like the golden mica line idea to match the golden dots, and I also like how coated soap balls come out different sizes in the finished soap - it's such a lovely effect!).

 

[KiwiMoose]

Those are cool! My young one might be interested in this. I simply couldn't stand to do it - dizzy or not. Too much detail and patience required and rocks/soap would be hurled through the window!

In my younger days I would have done exactly that!

 

[Misschief]

Those are cool! My young one might be interested in this. I simply couldn't stand to do it - dizzy or not. Too much detail and patience required and rocks/soap would be hurled through the window!

If you think your daughter might be interested in something like this, @lenarenee, look around your home for anything she could experiment with. I once painted a couple of wooden spoons with a similar technique. I used a pencil (eraser end), a pin stuck into another pencil's eraser, an embossing tool, a toothpick, anything I could find that would create a dot when stuck into a bit of paint.

 

[KiwiMoose]

If you think your daughter might be interested in something like this, @lenarenee, look around your home for anything she could experiment with. I once painted a couple of wooden spoons with a similar technique. I used a pencil (eraser end), a pin stuck into another pencil's eraser, an embossing tool, a toothpick, anything I could find that would create a dot when stuck into a bit of paint.

Yes - I started out the same way - kebab sticks were great - pointy end and flat end. Then I bought some nail art tools - they were good too.
https://www.wish.com/search/nail art dotting/product/59a7cc7a6a273025b5674136?&source=search