At the point this photo was taken, I was told not to carve further on the hair or fabric around the face, and not to carve the hand yet so the face began to shrink a bit and become enclosed by the stone. I had a hard time reaching the places I needed to work on. I know the idea was to preserve options for future. It’s hard for me to work on areas someone else tells me to, or to ignore parts of a whole piece. I like to flit around from part to part and let the whole thing take shape.
I’ve been told this face is ugly, that it looks like a man, that it must be an Asian woman. Someone, trying to help me out, took a chisel and removed her left cheek bone prior to this picture because they disagreed about the structure of this face. I was really upset afterward and I had to carve deeper to get the cheek partially restored. Now the nose looks crooked and adjustments need to be made. I am doing my best to use these comments, experiences and the guidance to benefit the quality of my work overall. I guess it’s good to run into many obstacles to learn better how to deal with them.
I love working with a hammer and chisel. I love the feel of the tools in my hands. I hope I wind up with something that looks human in the end.
This is part five of the series on this stone carving.
Part 4: Little bit older and a lot less boulder
Part 3: Fo shizzel my chizzel
Part 2: The cure for stonliness is a friend with a chisel
Part 1: Turned to stone
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I worked some on the hair, the face and began shaping the hand of this lady in limestone. 
just relax and the work flows. Click to enlarge.
