Goodbye to the Holidays, the pieces we carved, the pieces we didn’t carve; goodbye to 2016. Hello to a new year, new possibilities, the pieces we will carve, the pieces we hope to carve; hello to 2017. That said, there’s still enough hibernation time before spring to reflect on our processes, plan new pieces and […]
Many of you (hopefully all of you) may have recently received an email addressed to ‘Hello Stone Carver,’ or ‘Hello NWSSA Stone Carver.’ In it we present the idea that even though summer is over and times to gather either in larger or smaller groups have past, we can still keep in touch and foster […]
You have seen color photos in some issues of Sculpture NorthWest and not in others. This may have caused you to wonder why that is. Here is the current information and pricing from our Layout Artist and Printer, Nannette Davis. Her business, QIVU Graphics, is located in Woodinville, Washington. There are two basic ways to […]
This summer issue of Sculpture NorthWest will show you raw stone direct from the quarry; how it’s turned into a finished sculpture; where to go to learn how to do that and what sculpture is like in a foreign country. Starting with the quarry, Matt Auvinen will give us some of the details about a […]
LETTER FROM THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY Sculpture: the art of making forms, often representational, in the round or in relief, by chiseling, carving, modeling, casting, etc. Stone: a solid, nonmetallic mineral matter; representing something not easily malleable, i.e. hard as stone. Tools: any devices or implements used to carry out or used in an occupation […]
Now that spring is almost on its way and we can be thinking of carving without mittens, let’s celebrate with another issue of Sculpture NorthWest. We are so pleased to finally have Kentaro Kojima standing in the Artist Spotlight. Showcasing his work has been on our short list for quite a while. In this article, […]
A good winter’s day to all of you, though with so many sunny days it hardly seems like winter. If you can get past working with cold hands, this is carving weather. And we have a lot of carving for you to look at in this issue. Bob Leverich is in the Artist Spotlight this […]
It appears that summer has truly packed its bag and gone elsewhere. Gone with it are our symposia and carving events and outdoor shows. What to do? Where to get that fix that we get from being amongst like-minded people hurling themselves and their tools at stone? Must we wait til our part of the […]
This summer offered several opportunities for carvers to get together. Not only opportunities to carve and to show their work,but perhaps most importantly, to charge their creative batteries to get them through the inevitable winter. Even if you didn’t get to any of the gatherings this summer, we hope reading a little bit about them […]
By Lane Tompkins Sometimes trying something new doesn’t always turn out well, so moving the Oregon Symposium from our much loved Silver Falls State Park to a new location caused us more than a little apprehension. We were told that Suttle Lake on the edge of the Cascades in Central Oregon was lovely. We were […]
Summer is hear and the carving weather is back. Nice to be able to work without down jackets, snow suits and over-thick gloves. But, if you feel like you’d like to put your feet up and relax for an hour with some art, here is what this issue has for you.Somewhat relevant to our last […]
Greetings to you all and to daylight savings time. The days are already noticeably longer and that’s good news for carvers. We are doing something different with this issue. While reading another of Chip Cooper’s articles about Rodin (online at his coopertoons.com) we pondered once again the question of “How many of his marble pieces […]
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