What an ominously Pollyanna-ish title! So here’s what’s going on. I’ve been chewing away at the stone, stripping off the thickest areas to make it easier to drill down to a denser array of points. In a few areas I’ve gone a step farther and taken it all the way down, leaving just enough forContinue reading “The Figure #11: Every Disaster Is An Opportunity”
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The Figure #10: Pointing and Carving!
It took a while to get here, but we’re finally carving marble. The process is to use a pointing machine to locate key points on the plaster model and then transfer them to stone using a pointing machine. There’s a video below of setting it up and starting the carving on the figure. The PointingContinue reading “The Figure #10: Pointing and Carving!”
V1.0 Of The Figure Did Not Go To Waste After All
Version one of the model for the figure carving wasn’t quite what was needed. I’d made a mold before deciding to rework it but I’d never poured it. The clay popped out of the mold almost unharmed so it was easy to rework the aspects I didn’t like. I liked the placidity of her postureContinue reading “V1.0 Of The Figure Did Not Go To Waste After All”
A Figure In Stone #7: Setting Up to Enlarge
The video for this really says it all so I’ll keep this text to a minimum. I’ve posted a few times about the enlarging machine but this is the first time I’ve actually set it up to use it. This one is physically setting it up on the bench. In the next one I’ll actuallyContinue reading “A Figure In Stone #7: Setting Up to Enlarge”
Aside: Making a Pneumatic Point Chisel
I have two nice Trow and Holden B-series pneumatic hammers for sculptors. They are sweet little tools, awesome for claw chisels, straight chisels, and bush hammers. The bigger one is the green device in the picture below. Several other companies make similar hammers, but T&H literally invented this type of pneumatic hammer for stone backContinue reading “Aside: Making a Pneumatic Point Chisel”
A Figure In Stone #5: Standing Up Pt 2
Squaring off the bottom so the block could be stood up was interrupted by a mini-hurricane. We continue from Pt 1 which you can find here. It’s all in the video below so I won’t write too much here. If you don’t know how to go about flattening a stone, that’s covered early on. IContinue reading “A Figure In Stone #5: Standing Up Pt 2”
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”
The Figure In Stone #4: The Point Is…
I’ve been pounding away preparing the block and so far, the work has been almost all with the punch, AKA point-chisel, AKA point, AKA bull-point. Worse Than I Thought I knew a significant part of this block was sketchy. It had been left in the weather for many years (not by me) and you couldContinue reading “The Figure In Stone #4: The Point Is…”
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