I spent another 4 hours today finessing the stone cottages today. This included: tidying up the shapes; smoothing the various planes of the cottage forms; grinding away excess stone; and creating a chipped textured area around each cottage. The photo above shows me using a diamond grinder to take excess stone off. I was working around the back of the shed out of the direct wind. I like the art nature of the sieve on the wall!!!!
I chose the five cottages in the photo below for finessing and for the installation that will go into the exhibition; and you can see I bagged the larger offcuts of each as these will become part of the installation.
A close up of the grinding process - done outside - fine day today - all the safety gear on. I got Fiona to take the photos - thanks F.
In the shed I then used stone carving chisels to create the textured areas. As you can see from the photo below the stones are extremely hard and the chisels suffered. A fair bit of work will be required to restore the chisels.
I didn't know until later but Fiona took a few photos of me chiseling through a very dirty workshop window.
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Below are the finished five including a couple of individual cottage photos.
As you can see from the photo below I have created a couple of spares as I was not confident about the stone for Sherray and Sleiteil.
I am pleased with the outcome; and given the hardness of the stones I am also pleased this work is complete.
it's no wonder your chisels are chipped!
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