I have to keep reminding myself that it is a stone and not chocolate 🤣 because if it was chocolate, I would have it devoured it from my laptop screen. Nine I am seriously curious about the tools you use and I would love to watch you go about your way while you are carving. When did you first start carving? How often do you practice carving? What were some of the challenges you experienced when you first started carving?
That is one hell of a smooth looking stone. Great job.
🤣 It does look like chocolate! It'd write off your teeth on first bite though.
I plan on doing a post that includes images of my tools, which will go with upcoming sculpture posts. I started carving when I was in my 20's, so it's been several years. I've carved ever since. I am in the process of finishing a new piece I started last year, so carving is ongoing. It really depends on what time is available to do it; but it's a regular practice.
Challenges....teaching myself how to carve. I've had almost no formal instruction. When I was in a particular niche part of the art world, producing a form of Japenese art, I acquired a mentor in terms of the type of art (an old form), but not about carving itself. I've picked up a few tips from a couple of fellow carvers in that world, but generally with that form of art, techniques, tools, and so forth are mostly kept very secretive, which is a whole other story. LOL
Thank you so much! Now don't much on stones that look like chocolate, no matter how appealing 😜
Yayy I look forward to that post! I have so many qs I would ask you about why you got into carving and what intrigued you about it but I don't want to overwhelm you with a flood of qs.
You have pretty much been self taught in regeards to carving.
bites into rock oops too late
Ask any questions you like, I welcome all of them. Originally, metal and additive process was my focus with regard to sculpture. I wasn't even interested in carving (a subtractive process). An artist (carver and more) gave me some pieces of cherry wood board offcuts to try out after he saw a maple carving I'd done (larger). I had to work small to do the relief carvings and I started down the miniature carving path and I focused on that because it has been the most challenging art form I've ever done. No matter how good I get it at it, there is always an ever present challenge, so that's why carving.
Yes, I'm primarily self-taught with regard to carving. There's no other way to learn what I have, other than apprenticing to someone who has mastered carving.
Your poor teeth, I can hear them shattering 😢
Nine you are full of never ending creativity. I am happy with the progress you have made but I won't underestimate the effort, time, and dedication it must have taken to get to this stage.
A bit more of a personal qs but do you feel satisfied with your progress?
Thanks, but born beaten with the creative stick heavily, so I have no idea what it's like not to be creative, LOL.
Absolutely I feel more than satisfied with my progress. That said, there is no end point for learning where I'm concerned.