Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Making Art With Rock Carving

By Rachael Gutierrez


You love art and you want to make your own masterpiece. However, you tried drawing but the supposed to be intersection of lines and curves seem to hard for you to do. You want to do something that does not include sitting around and focusing on the blank sheet of paper. You want to do something like the rock carving Alberta that exerts their force to create a piece. Lucky for you, you just stumbled to the right page.

First of all, you have to come up with a design. Something that you can manifest into a stone carving. This will depend on the creativity and the determination that you go to create your very own masterpiece. You can ether discover a stone that suggests the design or model out using the clay so to work out the details.

Choose a stone, that is the next step of the procedure. There are many stones that are available and suitable for the engraving or carving. You can do a research about the rock that you have seen and the right procedure to be applied on it so that you will create the very first piece.

Since you are no superman that can break the rocks into halves by the use of strength, you will have to resort to using tools. You can either buy or borrow them, depending on the resources that you have, both things and human. This shall include the sand paper, driller, grinder, pitching tool, tracing tool, chisel, and hammer.

And always get yourself the appropriate gears for your own safety. Not unless, you are open for the possibilities of being deaf and being hit with the debris right though your eye. If you do not want that to happen because you love yourself too much in a complete body parts version, wear the appropriate gears for this.

Your creativity is the limitation for this. You can apply anything that you want out of the bulky rocks that you have found. You can apply the image on a flat surface. Or better yet, you can have it in a three dimensional. It will depend on that creativity that you go up in your head, inside your skull.

And you shall always consider the importance of following the grains length in the carving process. Always remember that even the tiniest details can result to breaking off. You need to sketch your design on the rocks flat surface. And always follow the direction of the rocks grain. This should never run cross wise to avoid breaking off.

And always know the right functions of the tools that you are going to use. It is needed so that the quality of the work will be kept in front. Each of them varies on their designation so always keep the functions in your mind. Or you will yet again damage the sculpture you redo twice.

And lastly, polish that rock carving Alberta. You can use either the silicon carbide or the dry sandpaper, depending on the rocks that you got. Work on the medium grits and then finish with the finest grits. Hence, that is going to bring out the amazing patterns and the colors of the stone.




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