Hi, everyone - thought there might be somebody on here who could help me with a problem I'm having.
I have to make a salt dough head for art coursework, but I'm having a LOT of trouble with it.
I made it using 1 cup of salt for every 3 cups of flour, and just added water til it was the right consistency.
However, because it's quite a large, heavy ball of dough, every time I put it down the bottom becomes flat. Like I said, it needs to be a head so the back/bottom has to be rounded. I've now made it the smallest it can possibly be without becoming impossible to add facial details, but it still seems to be too heavy.
I am going to place it on salt dough shoulders, but I really want to get the face down now because it will be very difficult to do if the head's not flat. Also, when I do put it on shoulders I'm certain the chin area will just sink into the shoulders.
I moulded a nose last night, but when I checked it this morning it had disappeared - everything seems to be sinking into it like quick-sand!
So would really like to know how I could make it:
A) Easier to scrape details like wrinkles into it (at the moment it sort of crumples up, in the same way you'd expect normal cookie dough to - the tool doesn't glide through smoothly like it would in clay).
B) Stay even slightly rounded underneath!
I've already got annoyed with it and destroyed it once...
Thanks!