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Saturday, September 1st, 2012
By taking measurements from the plaster cast I am able to map the important points on the stone and using my saw and hammer and chisels I can remove the excess stone.
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I have a template that I put the model on I line up my squares and sliding squares to identify ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2012
My latest commission was to carve a portratit of Marley, a Labrador/Rottweiler cross.
My clients were bought a voucher for a wedding present and chose to have their beautiful dog immortalised in stone!
The first stage was to model him in clay, I worked from photos and from Marley himself, however I ...
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Friday, August 3rd, 2012
After I finished the carving of the pair of Freeminers, I was asked to do 2 more carvings in Welsh and Cornish slate and carve bases for them as well.
The bases are carved from Forest of Dean Sandstone, sadly the quarry I use has been closed for financial reasons so I ...
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Friday, August 3rd, 2012
This is a commission in Welsh slate of two Freeminers.
"All male persons born or hereafter to be born and abiding within the said Hundred of St Briavels, of the age of twenty one years and upwards, who shall have worked a year and a day in a coal or iron mine ...
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Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
Here are the last photos of the cherubs, they are fully installed in a beautiful graveyard in Cullen on the North East coast of Scotland looking towards Bin Hill.
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