The Craxford Snelling Workshop

Phil’s Portrait Spent almost the entire time at school ripping CDs. But the 30 minutes went well, starting to connect the dots.

The Floating One Flipped the angel over for the first time in awhile, need to focus on the flow of the piece and how the curves relate to one another. I began to carve the hand after lunch, the relation between it and the drapery is a key part of how the drapery works. Need…

Charlotte Howarth’s Workshop Spent the morning rubbing back the chalk and drawing the final letterforms with a fine line (sharpened 10h pencil, not a mechanical pencil). Was longer than I thought because of the boarder nature of the chalk so I had to draw a lot of the forms from scratch. But because of the…

Charlotte Howarth’s Workshop Design and layout has changed dramatically since the start but I’m now much happier with both forms and layout. Rough day but work was good. Spent the first portion of the day working on letterforms with white chalk before rubbing this back and reworking the spacing. From here I made most of…

The Floating One Good day again, getting into it, almost a shame to have lettering tomorrow. Still working on drapery. More on the back end today. Still have a bulky look but it’s slowly getting lighter, will be finished with drapery by the time I move onto Phil.

The Floating One Working on the scoops on the drapery, nice to be back in cutting room. Using large bullnoses to rough out the flow of the folds. Fairly good day, just this small amount of work has helped me see where I’m going and errors in my carving so far. Also makes the form…

Lettering Continued on ‘Individuation’. Using a brush and print outs of Ralph Bayer’s work I worked on paper this time as I think the stone I was working is too rough for the letter forms I have ended up drawing. Will now cut down four Portland panels for Charlotte next week. Phil’s Portrait Same problem…

Lettering Despite Charlotte not being here I continued with the lettering and stone for her. Got the two pieces to fit together well but took a huge chunk off one of the corners, will either cut the whole thing down or repair with superglue tomorrow. Moved onto drawing the letters in the afternoon, want some…

Charlotte Howarth’s Workshop Just spent a couple hours on the stone before leaving to Liverpool.

Charlotte Howarth’s Workshop After finishing the punched face I tided some of the edges and started on the layouts with Charlotte. Working on the stone with charcoal, writing out: ‘Individuation in light of notions of form and information’ After spending time on these layouts I decided on a design which would slot two pieces of…