Posted on Tuesday, 24 January 2012
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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Posted on Tuesday, 24 January 2012
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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Posted on Tuesday, 24 January 2012
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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Posted on Monday, 23 January 2012
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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Posted on Monday, 23 January 2012
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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Posted on Monday, 23 January 2012
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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Posted on Monday, 23 January 2012
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...
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