Carving stone

In just several days, sculptor Simon Verity recreated a 13th century statue head that was once in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and is now part of the Nasher Museum of Art's collection. Duke stude

How to carve rocks with a Dremel. Make rock pendants and add saying to rocks for home and garden decor.

Trow and Holden has worked to develop a wide range of tools that can meet the needs of all types of stone and the artists who work with them. From stone hammers, carbide chisels, rock splitting wedges, pneumatic hammers and more Trow and Holden manufactures the right tool.

Artist José Manuel Castro López works with rocks both large and small to transform hard surfaces into gentle fabric-like creases. Each sculpture begins as a regular piece of quartz or granite which he delicately grinds down to reveal peculiar wrinkled shapes, as if the rock had always existed this way. You can see many moreContinue reading "Stones Carved to Appear Like Wrinkled Fabrics by José Manuel Castro López"

This is really making me crave summer and the beach. This pic makes me forget, for just a minute, that it was -24 here this morning. The stones have been gathered from my (very sandy) yard, carved, and rubbed with beeswax so the carving is more distinct. I've then attached a neodymium magnet to the back with 2-part epoxy.

Matthew Simmonds, an art historian and architectural stone carver based in Italy, has created a collection of excepti...

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