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After four days of blocking out: jig sawing
A sculpture like this one that I have on my hands now , means a lot of sawing. I prefer to start with a contour template, which I transfer to the stone,…
A whole lump of stone has arrived
Last week, a truck arrived with a large piece of stone; green dolomite for a sculpture in North Brabant. Since it is a rough block of…
Potem Tole
I just need to paint the toenails, but the rest of my Potem Tole is almost ready.
Woodcarving in Ecuador
In 1987/1988 I traveled for three months in Ecuador. It was a journey that would change my life, because after going through all kinds of difficulties…
Recommendations for enthusiastic sculptors
For the one who wants to learn sculpture in stone, nothing beats doing it yourself. But if you want to deepen your knowledge, then the next ones can book…
An afternoon of carving together
It's been some years since I gave sculpting lessons. Last Saturday I had my first 'students’ in my own studio: the American Matt,…
Inbetweens: a water spiral for the panipitha
After the completion panipitha (see photos of the process here)something still had to be found to collect the water that came off…
Installing the large Shivalingam and Panipitha
Granite After I had cut and polished all the parts of the Shivalingam, and I had tested them in a test setup, to see if it fit, are the five parts…
Upper part finished
The home stretch of the work on the large lingam and panipitha has arrived. By and large, all the shaping has been done now, but the rings…
Panipitha-bonding the spout
All parts of the large granite panipitha are now ready. Because the granite that I had lying around was too small to carve it out 1 piece…
Polishing work on the underside has started
I made a spout out of a separate piece of granite , that is bonded with the rest of the upper part later. I have the design in mind…
A large panipitha: Shiva lingam
Out of a block of black granite, that I had lying around as a remaining piece from a smaller panipitha in black granite, I have one with my sawing machine…