Sarge over at OneAngryZebra ask me a few days back to let him see what sculptures I am working on. Right now there are 5 in various stages. Here will be a robust stylized bull in Tennessee marble, about 15" long. It's overall shape is set, I have'nt settled on the size/shape of the horns so I left lots of marble up there for that. You see I marked up the next cuts already. The other is a football tackle in limestone, it's big, around 3 feet long. I don't work on the football piece very often, the bull more often but it's slow work, this piece of marble has been out of the earth a few years, it's pretty damn hard now. It will be a long time before either are finished. I have another big marble piece that may be finished, I can't decide, a modernistic limestone piece that I might finish in a week or two, and a slate piece that will take a week but when.....? I'll get pictures of the others in a week or so. Put on some blues or rock or classic music, beat rock till sparks come out of it.
Yep, creative juices flowing, sparks flying. Kind of makes me jealous that I can'[t make sparks. I suppose I could make paint spatters though. Nice bull. I like it all ready.
ReplyDeleteSherry, spatter it with gusto.
DeleteWhere do you get the marble? Have it shipped?
ReplyDeleteAnd, as I have often noted - I had no idea...
Ron
The marble I bought a big piece from a cemetary monument supplier. It was about 9" thick weighed about 360 lbs, I slid it on 2x4s I rubbed with hand soap, glides like roller skates, then I drilled holes through it, cut lines in it and drove a wedge in it and cleaved it into smaller pieces as I wanted.
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ReplyDeleteGive me the tools and I guarantee to create a mess. Otherwise I'll stick to creating word pictures.
Mister O, I started out with a carpenter hammer and cold/steel chisels I had in my tool box, they don'w work very well, get dull instantly, but I made the fist piece that way to see if I could do it, and it came out real nice, then I purchased a few proper stone chisels, they don't cost much, later when I worked a piece of granite I had to buy carbide tipped tools, they cost a bit more. From the small standard to the bigest carbides they cost from $10 to 40 each, and you could get by with 4 or 5 really, in 10 years I may have bought about a dozen total. It's a pretty cheap hobby.
ReplyDeleteVery nice fringe!
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