Soapstone update

Here is what I have been working on during my hiatus.

Day 67

A small army of paperclip sculptures. I've started working on the soapstone. I'm not sure if I'm going to post my progress every day or not. I might take a hiatus on the every day thing. Its still up in the air.

Day 66

Another possible design for the block. I am seriously considering attempting this.

Day 65

This is more of a possible concept for the stone sculpture than a piece in itself. I've decided that if I can't make the model out of sculpey, then it is too intricate or delicate to be made of soapstone. If anyone has any ideas for the 10 pound block, I would love to hear them.

Soapstone

Here is the block of soapstone that I bought the other day. In the picture on the left I am tilting it to show the sanded and oiled corner, so that you guys can see the color that it will end up as.

Day 64

There is a lot of sanding still left to do. Work is stopping on this for now until I can find my dremel.

Day 63

I made a big mistake today- I wasn't being careful enough. You might not be able to tell from the pictures. I'm just going to correct it as much as I can and go on.

I bought a ten pound block of soapstone today from Plaza Art. Its a beautiful green, and I'm really excited to start working on it. Definitely going to do a clay model for this one (for the one I'm doing now I did a ten second model and then started carving something similar).