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Tuesday, 24 January 2012
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This is an advice for the newbies who wish to do the butter sclupting. Before 'jump into' the 'complicated' of simple idea such as animal which is simple but then the chosen animal is the complicated male lion or any furry animal which will giving you a hard time (really hard) not just to carve the...
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012
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We called this sculpture as ‘fat’ not because itself is fat nor do us the sculptor, it’s just simply the ingredient that we used to finished this sculpture after carving it out from 2D Styrofoam into almost-perfect 3D Styrofoam sculpture is what we called as ‘butter’. Butter naturally is fat and always...
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012
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After the Styrofoam base is complete, it is placed on a plywood as a support base and we continue the process with the next step which is kneading the butter and patching and sculpting it onto the base. This is quite a hard process as it requires patience. After kneading, the butter is patched onto...
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Monday, 23 January 2012
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For our butter sculpture, we are required to carve a Styrofoam as a base. We have chosen to do a butter sculpture inspired by a Peacock. We have decided to create a more sleek and modern type of design instead of a more real-life inspired one. Detail works are opted out for a more...
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Monday, 23 January 2012
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For our sculpture, we are inspired by a peacock. Here are the images we have chosen as references for our butter sculpture. Instead of going for a life-like sculpture, we agreed on doing a more modern version of a peacock instead and chose not to do the detail work such as the feathers and other intricate...
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Monday, 23 January 2012
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Working on a butter sculpture usually consists of these steps:
What you need:Butter
A cool room (air-conditioned)
Ice water
Materials for the framework (wood, metal/ sculpted Styrofoam)
Sculpting tools
Food coloring *optional
Step 1: Find a cool room (air-conditioned)Find a cool room...
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Monday, 23 January 2012
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Butter sculpture has its origins as centerpiece displays for Renaissance banquets. Eventually, in the 19th century, it moved from the table to the display case when it became a chief advertising tool of the newly-industrialized dairy industry. It was exhibited at state fairs, international expositions...