a blog that will describe the day to day activities of a professional stone sculptor, living and working in a remote wooded area of Kentucky.This weekly pictorial diary is intended as a step-by-step guide for how to create monumental stone sculptures. It is also meant to be entertaining, as well as informative.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Oak Park Sculpture Walk
Several good things have happened this week.
On Monday, I received a call that 2 of my sculptures had been selected for a temporary outdoor sculpture show in Oak Park, Illinois - which is due west of downtown Chicago. This is one of the sculptures; "Pod of Sun seeds", Indiana Limestone and Brazilian White Marble, 81" high by 39" wide by 33" deep.
This is the other piece; "Entwined Seedlings", Indiana Limestone, 45" wide by 21" high by 21" deep.
On Thursday, plans became more solid that my functional granite sculpture "Felicity" will be the focal point of a memorial to be installed in Floydsburg Cemetery.
Since the last post, I've made serious progress on a sculpture that now has a title - "Accord".
This is the back view. I hope to finish it and make a base for it this coming week.
On Wednesday, I came up with this design. It was inspired by the Tree of Life bronze that I did last year.
Ideally, it will be carved into this 7,500 lb. piece of Indiana Limestone that I bought in 2009.
I shared the studio this last week with 5 baby wrens that had gotten too big for the nest that had been built in a storage cabinet. They finally got big enough to leave - their constant chirping (neurotic psychobabble!) was driving me nuts!
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