Category: My Art
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Alabaster Chip
Working with a chip of alabaster to make myself a scarab beetle (with human face):
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Busy Day
Just hung this piece (first showing) at a group show 1012 Coffee on Lawrence St in uptown Port Townsend, the work to the right is by Geralynn Rackowski, Kathy Panks, and Noa Piper: Also made a trip out to Adelma Beach Road to buy a little stone suitable for carving! 60 lbs. of limestone and…
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New Resin
I think this one gets the title “Flat Earth Society”… The textured and colored backdrop is an acrylic box open in the back. I plan to add led rice lights in the box behind the figure, and to create a base (ground for the figure to stand on). And maybe extend the clear acrylic at…
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Tools on order
Here is a temporary display of my first stone sculpture, “Young Bird”. And now shopping for stone carving tools! Meanwhile I make do, and make progress. No silly! This is not a wounded tangle of deformed elephants! It is an abstract sculpture 🙂
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Sealed and …
I think it is best to seal limestone for outside. And I did rub a hint of yellow pigment on between coats…
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Starting in Stone
This bird is my first stone carving, chiselled from a 6″ x 6″ x 9″ block of nice soft uniform limestone; started & completed in the NWSSA beginners tent at Pilgrim Firs Stone Camp this week. The stone camp was so much fun: the NWSSA stone camp beginners’ tent provided an amazing opportunity to try…
