Stone Heads
 

a couple I just finished, I really think they look better in real life, I need to get the lighting and shadows in this stuff.
The Easter Island Head, Moai, is carved from a 85 lb piece of Limestone
The Angel Fish is carved from a 30 lb piece of Calcite. It really is cool in real life, looks like the inside of an Orange.

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Dean, you've got some real talent!

Nice work, Dean.

I used the same Tiki for my business logo on some tee shirts back in '06.

Very cool...:cool:

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Nice work, Dean.
Love that fish.

You are an amazing talent my friend. I love the fish too...

you guys are always kind to me, thank you.

Wow! What everyone else said...impressive indeed!!!

I like the head. That would look good in the yard. Nice work sir, steady hands.

I think so too, when I started on it there was moss growing on the back and top. The back still has remnants of it, I think in a yard it would get some patina fairly quick. It only weighs about 50 lbs now. Limestone, it's porous and would age well.
Thanks again,

Wow! I really like those.

I am a stone head too :--)

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I could do that in Marble, how much do you want to spend?

Beautiful work Dean.

Really nice work. I like them both.

Very nice Dean. Do you sale these?

sure. PM me.

Very cool stuff dean!

Dean,
I'm curious as to the tools you use to make you sculpture and how you even begin to rough out your design. Then the process of final shaping and smoothing. I continue to be amazed SmileWavy

So is like hammer and chisel?

Dean,
Yes, you are very talented, indeed!

I usually start out with a picture I down load of the net. Nothing ever ends up like the picture so nobody will get on me for copying their photos. The fish was from two different pictures of an Angel fish.
The horse head started out from a 500bc bronz thing and morphed from there, nobody will ever see it as the same.
The main tools on these and the Horse Head in the last posts are air and electric, die grinders. Then files, some diamond files, then sand paper, the Horse Head and the Fish I used 2000 wet and dry on the final, then Brass wool, then some stuff called "Akemi", then some clear wax. Hammer and chisels on the horse and fish would shatter them. I even used power tools mostly on the Easter Island head because I had them. Then files and diamond files. No sandpaper on that one.
I have a piece of Blue Marble about 42" by 22" by about 7" thick I am trying to get an idea for.

Thanks again for the compliments, in March I will have been doing stone work for a year. and now I have to enter the house through the Garage door to get my head in. If I sell anything the money will be spent getting a bigger garage door.