Drapery

Spent the morning sorting out stone, chose to do it in slate (more practice for headstone carving and final year lettering project). Found a piece of Westminster slate and used that.

Started by chopping the outline but had to sort out some softening and wood as it was defening on the easel. Ended up moving it flat to rough everything out first anyway.

Nina said to get a feel for the whole thing by religiously going round the outline (see below). Said never to work into an edge and to keep my chisels very sharp, I’m keeping a diamond pad next to me while I work like with lettering. Will probably use more firesharps as I can get a much finer taper on them compared to most of my tungstens.

It’s been hard work, slate’s hard after all.

Need to find some examples of this kind of carving in slate.