• Brick layer is finished

    Latest projects, sculpture, vM
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    Stratenmaker1
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    The light was not ideal for taking photos, yesterday. After a long wait for a cloud to finally slide in front of the sun (why isn't there any wind when you need it?) at a quarter past six I finally just cycled home. I hope I can make some better pics in the next few days, however, here goes: my statuette of the street worker is finished.

    I've carved it largely in the direct carving style, in other words, without too much measuring. After initially having made a clay model and a saw model in preparation, I carved the rest largely by eye.

    The figurine is carved out of dolomite and is about 80 cms tall. On the surface I left a plain chisel's marks and finished the footplate with a toothed chisel's marks. The client is planning to make himself a base for it out of paving bricks.

    Update: better pictures. It was pretty late in the evening, but the light was good, so here it is: new photos

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  • Precarving the stone street worker

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    Today I made good progress with the precarving of my sculpture of the paver. It is about 80 cms tall, out of green dolomite. After the pre-cutting with the saw machine I am now carving the rough outlines, detailing will follow later.

    A precut sculpture does have the right volumes, but due to the limitations of the machine, there is still a lot of measuring work, chiselling and sawing work to be done. Fortunately, that has become a lot easier because already a lot of reference points are clear.

    For clarification: to the left the stone statue, to the right the sawing model.

    dolomite image of road worker; phase 2: precarving in the rough

    I approach this sculpture to a large extent via the direct carving method: the portions that have not yet been shaped I actually carve without measuring too much, and especially the details, which I also didn't define in the clay sketch and the pir foam model, I'm carving freehand. That will make it a lively sculpture, and I find the process enjoyable because while carving I encounter’ all kinds of small 'problems' and coincidences . I noticed that while doing that the cogs of the learning process were busily turning again.

    Actually, the light under my tent is not ideal, and that shows in this picture. Now that is actually beneficial on this blog, that way it remains a bit of a surprise, but for carving, I would prefer a slightly cloudy day without a tent. The tent flattens all shades, so everything is not sharply defined anymore. Sculpting is actually shaping with shadows, so tomorrow I will go out from under the tent. Too bad it'll later get towards 30 degrees Celsius!

    Direct, bright sunlight actually doesn't work well either, and that is the reason that the statue sits on a turntable. That way I can turn it in the best position, but most of all, I can turn it toward the best light.

    After all that granite sculpting I have to looking for new glass in my spectacles, because the current have actually become more of a starry sky and that hinders visibility severely. But despite these small obstacles this one already is a very nice little sculpture, and also the carving itself on this sculpture is a very pleasant pastime. I will keep you informed of the developments!

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