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How to Select Clay for Sculpting
Sculpting with clay is a fun, creative activity that anyone can enjoy. Many types of clay exist today, both natural and synthetic. The one you select for your sculpting will largely depend on your...
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Select Stone for Sculpting
Sculpting stone is an extremely old art form, dating back to prehistoric times. One of the world's most famous sculptures, Michelangelo's "David," was completed in 1504 and was made from marble. In...
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How to Select a Beginners Sculpting Kit
Trying out a new activity like clay sculpting is an exciting adventure. Some people enthusiastically throw themselves into their new hobby and never look back. They select the materials they need and...
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How to Select Stone Carving Tools
Stone carving is a long, arduous process involving many tools. Each of the tools performs a different function. In many of the later stages of carving, each subsequent tool erases the marks made by the...
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How to Select Chisels for Stone Carving
Sculptors define the shape of their stone sculptures with chisels. Chisels come in different lengths and widths. Point, flat and tooth chisels perform a different function in the carving process. Finer...
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How to Select Rasps for Stone and Wood Carving
Rasps are steel tools with rows of sharp teeth used in both wood and stone carving. The purpose of a rasp is to smooth the wood or stone after the main shape of the sculpture has been defined. As you...
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How to Carve Using Soapstone
Soapstone is a type of metamorphic rock that consists mainly of an unrefined form of talc. It is very soft and easy to work. For that reason, sculpting experts suggest that beginning artists learn to...
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How to Carve Using Alabaster Stone
Alabaster is a soft, delicate stone. It is almost transparent, and exists naturally in pale shades of pink, yellow and white. Due to its delicate nature, alabaster has a tendency to scratch and bruise...
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How to Carve Using Marble Stone
Marble has been a traditional carving stone for centuries and remains a favorite today. Marble is an example of metamorphic rock, a soft stone to carve. The colors widely vary depending on what part of...
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How to Carve Using Granite Stone
Granite is one of the hardest types of igneous rock. The most common color of granite is gray, but pink, green and even yellow shades exist. When speaking about sculpting, granite is sometimes called...
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How to Sculpt with Ice
How to Sculpt with Ice. Sculpting with ice is a challenging prospect as the sculpture is working with a medium that is not permanent. In fact, the very impermanent nature of the ice medium is as much...
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How to Make Ice Sculptures
Ice sculptures are beautiful to the eye and cold to the touch. Ice sculptures can take hours to create, yet some masters of the chainsaw and die grinder can whip up a beautiful ice sculpture in 10...
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