. . . of interest to sculptors . . .
Years back I set about creating a book on the stone carving arts. It was a noble, and I still think much needed, enterprise but I discovered early on that it was labor intensive and greedy beyond greedy for time. I ended up abandoning it in favour of carving stone as opposed to writing about carving stone. These years later, on the eve of the 2023 symposium, I am looking over the draft of the first 73 pages I composed so long ago., It’s far from finished and cleaned up and there are a lot of blanks where I planned to put images— but what is there is clearly is a golden source of information for the aspiring sculptor. It concerns mostly working by hand; I stopped just before getting into power tools. Do give it a go . . .
A 'semi' tech note: I draw the various sketches for my tech notes with Adobe Illustrator. It’s a useful thlng for artists of any stripe to learn as an adjunct to whatever you are creating. Downside—it’s a lot of harsh learning to get started although gets easier after you get going. Oh yes, it costs $$ too. Not my fault!
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