🤣 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.