In an earlier post we talked bruises in marble, which are the bane of modern marble sculptors. They’re like a pimple on your sculpture’s nose and there is no effective makeup for marble. Surprisingly, bruising wasn’t an issue for the ancients. In fact, as we’ll see in a different post, the available carving techniques priorContinue reading “Many Kinds of Realism”
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Bruising Marble
This posting went almost unseen when I first put it up, six months ago, so after reworking it a little I’m re-posting it. The changes are cosmetic so if you feel like you’ve seen it before you probably have. If you carve marble or alabaster you know about bruising. I’m talking about the indelible milkyContinue reading “Bruising Marble”
A Figure In Stone #5: Standing Up Pt 1
Dragging Out The Block And Standing It Up (Part 1) I recorded some of the process of dragging a 1000-pound block out and squaring it off so it would stand up vertically. It’s fun to impose your will on a half-ton of stone, but lifting or even sliding around heavy things is inherently dangerous. That’sContinue reading “A Figure In Stone #5: Standing Up Pt 1”
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