Where’s the fire?

 
This beautiful gem can be found in the Town of Cary and it’s more than just a looker. If ever there’s a fire or a dog in need, we’ve got you covered.
p.s. More stone carving next week. We had a break due to Memorial Day weekend.

Fo Shizzel My Chizzel

 
 
Second day carving this stone and I am having a blast. My teacher, Paris Alexander,taught me to use a point chisel to clear out more stone and to do some shaping with a tooth chisel. I was supposed to round out the tip of the nose (/me points to the square flat thing which is [...]

Loose Leaf Logic

 
 
I found this old scribble while I was cleaning today.

The cure for stonliness is a friend with a chisel

 
The post Turned to stone contains an image of the preliminary sketch for this carving. We used a hammer and chisel to roughly outline the major parts of our design in limestone. I jumped the gun by chiseling around the mouth, nose and eyes a bit, but hopefully I didn’t do any serious harm.  The [...]

Turned to stone

Here is my preliminary pencil sketch for my first attempt at relief carving in limestone.
This sketch was my second choice of the two designs I came up with. My instructor gently advised me that my first choice is too difficult for my skill level at this time.
The method of image transfer we used involved [...]