Woodgrain

This month Amy Warden is hosting a woodgrain soap tutorial, which made me happy because I am just about out of the last batch woodgrain soaps.  She showed us new techniques for creating this type of design.  I choose to stick with what I normally do, with a twist of pouring the soap two layers high and cutting horizontally through.

I also decided to add some color that I typically do not - as I am enamored with pictures of blue and purple woodgrain soaps that I see on pinterest and other platforms.  I thought I had overdone the blue and purple, but the resulting soap is absolutely beautiful!

I was going to show an example of Amy's soap here, but I could not access her website?  So, I will try again - but I'm leaving for vacation in the morning, so it may be a while...

These bars are colored with charcoal, cocoa powder, indigo, alkanet root, moroccan red clay and kaolin clay.  One of the charcoals (the gray...) was actually made by an artist friend of mine out of willow I believe. 
Here are some process pics...

And, the final bars - so hard to choose which ones to put into the picture, as they are all gorgeous!  I wasn't sure how the horizontal cuts would work, but some of these bars are absolutely stunning. 

I'm leaving for Scotland in the morning, so, I will need to clean these up a bit more when I get back.  Crazy week trying to get ready, so I wasn't able to get these to shine yet, but I do love them!!!

Thanks for reading to the end!

Taralyn