Stone Carving and Letter Cutting
I have just had my clay delivery from Industrial Plasters so once my new trestle table and chicken wire arrives from Cass Art I will be making clay models of George Hyatt and Harold Edwards. These two gentlemen are the faces of the reliefs that I am carving on the war memorial.
I am going to create as close a portrait a possible from this photo in clay to give me something 3 dimensional to work from.
I spent most of April carving my stone sculptures and carving a whole new batch of my ever popular hand carved letters. I have been commissioned to carve some new house signs for people so that is what I was working on last week.
One of the signs which I have carved, painted and gilded is now ready for sanding to finish it off but I am still working on a raised letter sign. There are a few signs that just need their fixing holes drilled and two that I have only just drawn out ready to to carve.
The last 3 in the pictures I was commissioned to carve during lock-down, I emailed pictures and types of stone to my prospective customers and they chose or approved what I had drawn. The image with 4 pieces of stone are so my customer could choose her stone and font type. I am able to get on with these and then they can be collected once we are able to start returning to our lives.
I take a deposit which can be done with my credit card machine over the phone.
I have a couple of other commissions to start as well so if you would like to discuss an idea for a sculpture or some letter-cutting please get in touch.
Didn’t get as much done on my carving as I had hoped as I needed to tend my garden just in case it rains.
I am really pleased with my progress and this represents about 24 hours of carving over the last 4 days. There is still alot of chopping out, detail to put in and eventually under-cutting. I hope to finish carving it next week but I have a couple of commissions to carve.
All the carvings that I am creating during this lock-down will be available from my shop.
Had a great day carving and I was very thankful for my gazebo as it was another gloriously hot and sunny day.
Before I got started this little creature was on my stone, I hadn’t realised that she was laying eggs and unfortunately the eggs didn’t make it, the creature did though, she flew off.
Hopefully you can start to see what I have in my mind now and obviously tomorrow I might get close to finishing it.
I am not working with a reverse template for the sphere, which represents planet Earth but I am happy that it looks right so far. I am not sure what detail I will add, this depends on the detail that I am able to get with the rest of the carving.
Another hot and sunny day again today, had to put my gazebo up (with some help from my boyfriend) so I could get on and carve in my garden workshop.
Here are some photos showing how far I have got today.
This idea was a simple outline to start with but with many of my carvings of this type they evolve as my ideas develop, the quality of the stone also makes a difference and often determine how much detail I am able to achieve.