• Sandstone has arrived

    vanH, coat of arms

    Very quietly, the sandstone for my next assignment arrived. And it is a beautiful, very fine piece of stone. I intend to carve a round family crest in relief out of it. It's a lively depiction with two griffins as shield bearers, mantling, a hat as a crest and a fairly simple shield.

    I'm told that the simpler the weapon on the shield itself is, the older usually the family is. Fortunately, the stone has a diameter of 120 cms wide, so all the details are not so puny.

    I have asked the quarry for a very firm piece of stone, and that's what they delivered: this is top quality. I like to carve reliefs very much (among other things because that way I don't need to measure as much), and coats of arms happen to be my favorite. And a very good piece of stone as well, What do I want more? A good start for a nice project.

    Nasty the next post about this project.

  • John the Baptist, Amsterdam

    sculpture

    In 2010 I carved a sandstone statue of John the Baptist. It has been placed at the corner of St. Jansstraat and the Oudezijdsvoorburgwal in Amsterdam. It stands on a sandstone console on the facade of the corner building.

    Apparently there has been a Saint John statue in this street traditionally, hence some people now have chosen to bring back the statue in the streetscape. In other places in the center of Amsterdam, such statues are placed as well.

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