{"id":1136,"date":"2018-07-14T20:10:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T20:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2018-08-14T22:08:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T22:08:53","slug":"the-summer-of-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/14\/the-summer-of-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Summer of Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Wilson Smith (http:\/\/andrewwilsonsmith.com\/<\/a>) is a sculptor who lives in Scranton, PA and works out of a huge walkout basement room at the boy’s boarding school where he also teaches part-time. His work ranges from architectural ornament to narrative sculpture, and he works in a variety of materials.\u00a0For the months of July and August, he’ll be teaching me stone carving while I work in his studio.<\/p>\n

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View of St. Gregory’s from Across the Valley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Several years ago, I saw a picture of Andrew in a newsletter from Clear Creek Abbey<\/a>\u00a0in Oklahoma. He was carving the twelve apostles on the lintel above the entrance to the monastery church<\/a>. It looked like the ideal job. Well, it looked hot and dusty, but it looked like a cool job.<\/p>\n

Andrew showed up in New York City this past winter as a speaker at a lecture series I was attending. I asked him where I could learn stone carving. Turns out, his studio is a good place to do that.<\/p>\n

So, here’s my first project. It’s a direct stone carving which means that I don’t start with a model. I just draw directly on the stone and make carving decisions as I go along.<\/p>\n

The design is a rosette motif copied from an original carved by Andrew.<\/p>\n

Here is how the block starts out:<\/p>\n

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Squaring the Top<\/p>\n

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Scribing the Rosette Design on the Top Using a Crayon and Compass<\/p>\n

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Removing Stone to Define the Highest and Lowest Points<\/p>\n

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Further Definition<\/p>\n

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Drawing Complete Design on the Surface<\/p>\n

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Finding Contours of Leaves and Petals<\/p>\n

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Shaping the Petals<\/p>\n

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This project will probably take me another week to finish. I look forward to posting the finished carving!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew Wilson Smith (http:\/\/andrewwilsonsmith.com\/) is a sculptor who lives in Scranton, PA and works out of a huge walkout basement room at the boy’s boarding school where he also teaches part-time. His work ranges from architectural ornament to narrative sculpture, and he works in a variety of materials.\u00a0For the months of July and August, he’ll be teaching me stone carving… Continue reading “The Summer of Stone”<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}