Stone Sculpture by Bill Brayman
My Sculpture Gallery
Experiments mostly with granite and basalt, limestone and marble. Most pieces can be placed outdoors.
Smaller pieces (under 60 lbs.)
Larger pieces
The Basalt Split Dome piece in my gallery was done in collaboration with MJ Anderson a wonderful stone sculptor who is setting the pace for what I would call postmodernist italian sculpture.
Psychological Musings
Some notes sitting in the dust bin too long, need editing some day...
Shop notes on sculpting a 3 dimensional yin yang symbol
Notes on sculpting a mathematical form. There are a couple points of interest here. First, sculpting a seriously hard stone like granite is challenging. Second, in this case, the underlying form has an interesting mathematical basis that I was trying to discover. Also needs some serious editing...
Studying the process of polishing basalt
Stone polishing is a very technical process, one that there is very little literature from which to learn. Here I agonize over details only a fellow compulsive can appreciate. Desperately needs editing, some day... But there are pretty pictures if you like stone sculpting.
Stone tools
Here are most of the main tools used for carving stone - Chisels, saws, and abrasives for the most part. Note that some stone is harder than steel (granite, basalt, etc) and some is softer than steel (marble, limestone, alabaster). The harder stones benefit from the use of carbide alloys and diamond abrasive. Tungsten carbide for chisels and silicon carbide for abrasives. Also used, but not shown, are various lifting and handling devices since typical stone carvings are very heavy. And also not shown is an air compressor used for pneumatic tools and for blowing dust away. And also not shown are various drilling mechanisms.