Your wounded flower is almost flawless. I see that you have written in depth about the process of carving itself.
I have seen people carving here on stone and wood the just have a chisel and a hammer. I have seen them dip their pieces in water as they work.
I have always admired their work and bought a lot of stuff from these temple artisans and given them away to my friends who love them.
Your stone carving seems more polished and different.
I guess it has to do with your conceptualization and execution of the piece.
Beautiful!!
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Thank you @sofs-su! I wanted to add in more details about the carving process to give a better rounded view of how I work. Chisels and mallets are a must for carving wood and soft stone. I've been carving for a very long time, so I've become practiced with it. Additionally, each piece must be gone over repeatedly to bring it to that polished state. This carving is what would be described as "stylized", meaning it's particular to the artist, a style they've developed that does not fit any specific traditional art style.
Hmm.. would love to watch you work on a piece.
My longer term plan is to do some videos showing that. I need to invest in equipment to do that though, so it will be a while yet. If you were in the same place, I'd invite you over for a personal demo, as I've done with some people. Also, I've carved in public here, so lots of strangers have seen. LOL
Can't wait for those videos.
Yip making videos need a bit more investment and software to edit.
I find editing videos take a lot more time than I can afford even though I love do it.
I'm making a list in my mind of who wants to see videos, lol. Software I have already; it's the equipment I lack and also I'm racing against time for a couple things are my present limitations. I've heard video editing is very time consuming.
Good on you if you have the software.. Time is the hardest thing to find. Darn I am so late today getting stuff done and now I am racing against time. 🙃
Time is the most precious. Not fun racing against time, for some reason it usually wins more often than not.