From:
"Robin Putnam" <icarvestone@zzzzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Sat, 26 Feb 2005 08:26:49 -0600
Subject:
What is it that carries your work? (surface pattern and form)
From: "Bob Hackett" <kinfolk@------- >
Quoted text begins.Quick question.What is the purpose of texture?
As long as we're speaking about balance(at least one of us is),why do
people
always seem to go for the biggest piece they can get from the raw material
instead of the best or most appropriate piece?
End of quote.
Bob and others,
I will be the first to say.....people buying my alabaster work.....I
believe....buy it because it is a beautiful, shiny, colorful stone. What I
carved out of the stone doesn't seem to matter to them.
And when working in alabaster I do not go into detail as it would be
lost....I save detailed work for limestone.
As for getting the biggest piece they can from raw material....I am made fun
of constantly by my peers ( all good natured, of course) because I am the
one starting with a 97 lb stone and ending up with a 6 lb
giraffe...generally more than half the original stone ends up at my feet. I
will admit i'm getting a bit weary of all the hacking to get rid of the
unwanted material but it's my own fault for not being comfortable enough to
use electric saws and such to speed it all up. I have discovered a
technique called 'walking the line' I believe....scoring around the
unwanted mass and then using a flat chisel moving it back and forth on one
side until the whole chunk just falls off. : )
And texture......a friend uses it to create depth....I use it to change the
color of the alabaster, hide imperfections ( like in crappy limestone) or to
try and create 'movement'.
Just my half a cent....
~Robin
no-stoneunturned
pics @ http://public.fotki.com/Robinlea/
new added 2.24.05
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