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Soap Carving



The soap carving reference was a bull which was a rather difficult animal to carve out of soap. The legs of it were not sturdy enough due to it being weighed down by the heavier top. The tail and horns repeatedly fell off considering they were thin pieces of soap. This project would probably have been more enjoyable if I had chosen a different animal. 

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