Week 10

3 hours of fine tuning with chisels and a little bit of sanding in the places a chisel couldn't quite reach.

I think I'm nearly finished on it now. I'm realising that you can just go on fiddling forever if you don't stop yourelf at some point.

I like the front view better than the profile.

A little bit more fine tuning and them some stain or polish next week.

I have selected a piece of soap stone from the 'stone room' at Mary Ward to potentially be my next project. Some pictures are shown below. I don't have an ideas what to do with it yet. I hope it inspires me.

Week 9

Just did lots of chiselling this week really to fine tune the features etc.

I think the nose is a bit bent which I like because so is mine!

I think the mouth protrudes too much still so need to take that back a bit. It looks like he/she is pursing his/her lips.

Not sure whether to add arms at the side or some chest features at the front.

I like the photo above. I think I will leave it with the rough chiselled finish and not sand it (not all over anyway).

Week 8

For some reason I don't feel as if I got very far this week. I just did lots of fiddling.

I've given the nose a bit of shape but I think it's far too big and will have to be reduced in size.

I'm not happy with the chin either.


Lots more work to do next week. I will be happy now if I can finish it to some degree by the end of term.

Week 7

This week was just lots of work with the chisel plus a little bit of sawing. Very satisfying though as I'm really starting to get the shape and see the features.

I'm finding the wood really nice to work with. It doesn't have very strong grain though so probably doesn't look very exciting.

The nose isn't looking very elegant so I'm thinking of slimming it down a bit.

At the moment at really like the rough marks the chisel leaves in the wood so am tempted not to file/sand it smooth at the end.

Lots more work to do!