April 2014 – Sidetrack

Public sculpture in downtown Santa Barbara

Touring downtown Santa Barbara looking for public sculpture

Cambria, Moonstone Beach, and the California Sculptors Symposium

Cambria California, pics of the Stone sculpting symposium and local scenic views. The beach there is called Moonstone beach for good reason. See the phenomenal beach sand shown in the pics, you simply must view the sand grains close up for an astonishing view. (See the view full size option button on lower right of picture).

Moonstone beach sand

Beach at Cambria

Moonstone beach at Cambria

California Sculptors Symposium

John Fisher teaching monumental figure sculpture

Henna stone carving

Here at Art City Studios I’ve been carving on an 84 pound piece of marble, “Henna” this variety is called. The stone is extremely old and contains many tiny shells and other creatures from perhaps a hundred million years ago. You can see them clearly when the surface is wet as shown in one of the pics. Each picture shows the result of a day or two’s carving from raw to roughed out. The carving is only partly done, roughed out a basic head and shoulders or barbell shape from one side only so far. The final form will be partially rounded, still to be determined.

Raw boulder, skin resurfaced a bit

Close up view shows big shells

First design didn’t quite work

Beginning of redesin

Wet surface shows fossils

Profile from one side roughed out

Visiting Art City Studios in Ventura

Here are a few pics taken while spending some time carving stone at Art City Studios in Ventura California and touring around the local area, including a evening concert at the Green Arts People place. This is just a quick post for now, will add more info later.