Busy year 2013

It been a long time since i updated my blog as I have been so busy this year. Things are slowing down, which is sort of good as it is just getting colder, and for all those people that work outside lets hope its not as harsh and lengthy a winter as last year! I have done lots of house restoration work this year. The most extreme transformation is this house in Easton, Bristol, which is possibly the worst I have seen still standing!
Before..

 And after

 

I also attended the Bristol festival of stone as an exhibitor, carving a very big salmon. I carved a prototype to see if it would work before attempting the larger sculpture out of a block of Portland.

Bath stone mini fish..

The larger fish is still a work in progress, which I am hoping to complete over the winter as the work is tailing off, hopefully next to a heat source of some sort. This is my most recent picture of it.

And below the still, *sigh* unfinished fish in progress stop motion film, this film is about 3 weeks worth of work.

Tracery window, with videos

Really cracked on with the tracery window today, probably did more work than normal as I was filming it. Had great fun trying to balance my laptop and getting it to stay still as I carved. The first video just shows the start. Having lots of fun trying to get this right. I'm a YouTube noobie.

 After this I performed the same action on the rear, practically tunneling in from both side. Luckily this stone, which is a french limestone is very fine and soft, which aids working and gives a really nice finished result.

There are two more videos for this project, but the carving wont be finished until tomorrow, or the day after, and uploading videos to YouTube, converting them, which you have to do if you used Windows Movie maker and add any captions etc. Tomorrow I Will try to add them to my web site. So I'm tired, but educated! well slightly more educated than I was before with regards to this multi-media gateau!.