I'm making soap brass knuckles for my casting class. It's really weird because in all of my other work I usually use found objects and yet when I get the chance to cast those found objects in another material I instead fabricate my own objects...I'm so confusing. Anyway I have many more fully solid ones but I think this was the best picture of the bunch. I have 3 sizes but they seem to be only xsmall, medium, and xlarge mostly because I wasn't really basing the medium or xlarge sizes off of anything so they got bigger than I thought they would. I blame this on my inability to comprehend spatial and portion size and also that my hands never grew up and are still child sized. no one in my class could fit this size [the xsmall is pictured] past their knuckles [even the girls]. anyway the colors I'm using are all pastels for some reason but I think it adds more humor to the prison soap idea. I'd like to find more essential oils other than fruity ones but who would think finding such things would be so difficult in california?! So far I'm using glycerin and shea butter but the glycerin is starting to sweat which is disgusting so I might stick to shea even if it's not as sturdy... I'm also planning on packaging these things to make them seem 'legit.' but I'm going to need a really sexy ad campaign with a bunch guys in a shower. either that or use my nonexistant photoshop skills to superimpose my soap knuckles into the american history x shower scene...
in progress.
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