THE PROCESS OF SUBTRACTING CARVING

L.E.Q.’S HOW DOES EXAMINING AN EXAMPLE OF PREVIOUS CIVILIZATIONS AND CULTURES INFLUENCE YOUR (THE ARTIST’S) OWN WORK? HOW CAN CREATING A MAQUETTE AID YOUR SCULPTURE? HOW IS CARVING DIFFERENT THAN MODELING?

3,000 YEAR-OLD EGYPTIAN CARVINGS IN GRANITE AND OTHER STONE ARE EARLY UNCHANGED TODAY

COLOSSAL CARVED STONE HEADS ON EASTER ISLAND IN POLYNESIA FROM THE RAPANUI; CREATED OVER 900 SCULPTURES ON THE ISLAND CIRCA 400 BC

WOODEN TOTEM POLES OF NATIVE NORTH AMERICANS

RENAISSANCE ARTIST MICHEANGELO BUONARROTI ( )

MATERIALS THAT CAN BE CARVED… wood marble other types of stone

THE ART OF CARVING involves cutting, hitting, flaking, chipping and rubbing tools…hammer, chisel, saw soap – carved with a pocketknife wood – small piece is whittled with a pocketknife; large piece requires wooden mallets and razor-sharp chisels stone – soapstone carved with a pocketknife; marble, limestone, and alabaster are carved with hammer and chisel; granite (head stones) requires tools with carbide tips and thermal torch that shatters in small fragments

THE PROCESS OF CARVING… know what SHAPE you are looking for…and remove all the material around it. ‘free the figure from within the stone’ Tools and steps… hammers/ chisels files and rasps sandpaper

BEFORE YOU CARVE… plan your work/ (choose your stone) sketch ideas from size and shape of stone sketch all sides create a maquette in clay and equal in size allows you to visualize size and proportion

SOAPSTONE? the easiest stone to carve because it is the softest metamorphic rock made up of talc and magnesium colors gray, green, rose, white, brown

NON-OBJECTIVE EXAMPLES

SUBJECTIVE EXAMPLES

WHAT WILL YOURS LOOK LIKE?