The Craxford Snelling Workshop

Didn’t do much this break, spent the first week organising everything from my studio in my room, putting up shelves etc. Second week I started work proper and carried on with third year proposal work, I modelled a maket for ‘the Floating one’. I think a better way to maximise stone and make it easier…

Ted Knight Inscription Carried on with the final drawing, centred the date to begin with. Traced it onto a new piece of paper before venturing it on the final piece. Mark (Tom was ill with covid) mentioned that the g was wrong so I spent half the day re-drawing that. Took a lot of looking…

Ted Knight Inscription started the final drawing, centred the text to the middle of the oval. Took a fair amount of shifting around the letters. As soon as I centred them I had to redraw them all as they were no longer tilted in the right way. Once I’d done this I shaped the stone…

Relief Carving Tom was back from Scotland today, was good to see him. Very helpful today. I started off focusing on the left side again before Tom quickly said to start on the other pipe folds. They were very flat compared to the side I had been working on so needed a lot of attention.…

We had an informal meeting about third year proposals, was good. Need to do a bit of thinking about how to display ‘the Floating One’ (I think a frame oiled to blend in with the trees in the garden would be best). Apart from this though everyone seemed happy. I now have a list as…

Ted Knight Memorial Plaque Worked on the Ted knight plaque today for Tom’s memorial workshop, I just carried on with this commission so now have everything ready for when they pay the deposit.

Raised Lettering, w. John Nielson Had a brief professional practice meeting with John, went over basics but is always interesting to see how other people go about invoicing. Apart from this we just carried on with the raised lettering design. I struggled a lot with mine, cutting straight to 63 degrees is a lot harder…

Raised Lettering, w. John Nielson Spoke to John in the morning about the quick design I did last night, he was much happier with it than I expected so after an hour of tweaking I came to my final design which I then scaled up in GIMP before adding the thick’s and thins on by…

I had the ‘luncheon’ with the Grocers Company today so wasn’t in the studio until around 5pm. I worked between my drapery, raised lettering and third year lettering proposal. Not much was done as I was there for such a short time I didn’t really get into anything in particular. Will upload photos tomorrow. Am…

Drapery Carving Started the day using a claw almost exclusively and working very tentatively. Need to make sure I don’t get lost in the claw marks and actually carve the stone. I did chip off a small piece and tried to glue it back on but the workshop still don’t have the right hardener for…