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Today I researched and looked on pinterest finding inspiration of things I could do. I also talked to my classmates and found out what kind of things they were doing to also get ideas.

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Today I figured out I was doing soap carving which sounds like such a fun idea of something I had never done before. I started and did my baseline piece. I looked at a picture on google and tried to imitate that with no practice beforehand.

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For Day 3 I just did research on different techniques that other people do to carve flowers out of soap. I watched two YouTube tutorials and also looked at multiple websites and read how people do it too. I also talked to Kyra which she is also carving soap so I went to her for more advice and to talk about ways I could enhance my baseline and grow from where I started.

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I started my second try at carving soap and watched a YouTube video while carving. I had a little trouble keeping up with the video at some points but overall I think the soap looks better than the first time I did it.

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I started another soap carving today and tried another YouTube video with new techniques. I think it turned out better than the first two and looks more realistic which is what I am going for.

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I was looking up ideas on pinterest to try and figure out different things I didn't know how to do and also asking classmates if they had any ideas to try and learn from them.

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I pictured what I wanted my soap to look like and envisioned how people might carve soap and then just started carving.

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I learned that I do need to be super careful with my cuts and how I shape the soap and observed how the different tools I was using was helping or not helping it look like a flower.

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I learned along the way which carving tools helped and which ones didn't and fixed mistakes made along the way.

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I worked with different clay tools I had never worked with before and saw what kind of marks each tool made. From there I now know which tools to use and which not to use for this project.

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I talked to Kyra about problems I was having and what I was trying to accomplish and she helped me and gave me some pointers on things I could do better and when to use certain tools that she found successful.

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Today I watched a different video carving soap in a new way. It turned out different from last time which is because the soap carver started out differently than I did in the video.

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I learned that if I carve out the middle first the flower stays more inward and is less 3-D. I also observed that more delicate strokes left less of a mark but if you kept going over it it was make more of a mark in a more precise place.

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I wanted to make it look more realistic and almost pop out at you and so while carving the soap

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I learned something new and never carved soap before so I am really happy with how this one turned out because it does look very realistic.

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This project was really fun. I learned to do something new I had never done before. I learned that you can stretch and try something new and it is okay if you fail at first as long as you improve. I actually really liked soap carving and it was almost therapeutic and calming which I really liked. I may keep carving soap to keep getting better and its something to do that I like.

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I was having trouble thinking of things I could do for this project and so I learned that it is okay to not know right away what I wanted to do even when other people already knew.

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Honestly I am not sure if this looks better than my baseline but I did try a different way of carving the flower but I don't think I will do it that way again.

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This is my best soap out of all three and I am very proud. I think I grew in my technique and it looks way more realistic and 3-D.