Sculpture techniques and methods - what is the best? (Part I)

Sculpture can be done in quite a few ways and of many different materials, but there are four basic techniques that are used for all the sculptures. Some techniques have been developed, with certain materials are used and have some techniques was passed through the centuries with very little change. It is common for sculptors, specializing in special technique to other techniques use, but if want to become professional sculptor one, it is a good idea to be at least somewhat familiar with all four types. The first type are stone sculpture.

Stone sculpture

Stone carving is the oldest form of religious devotion Bildhauerei.Wenn earliest humans started to create use sculptures, used as communication as tributes to those who died, stone carving you had to do it. Sculptures were stone this date to prehistoric times as the Venus of be adjusted cat found RAM, who believed will be about 800,000 years old.

Used Flint tools chip removed old sculptor to, what be happen in relation to whatever stones.Later would highlight certain types of stone based on the properties of this stone sculptors, and use for Bildhauerei.Flint tools and abrasive techniques were used to sculptures to the development of steel to erstellen.Stahl tools such as hammers, chisels, picks and other robust items made it possible for sculptors, doing new and innovative sculptures made much faster and more efficiently. today these tools not much from the original steel have changed tools have been developed.

There are three basic types of tools for stone carving used and are,

(1) Abrasive

Abrasion was the primary method of sculpture for thousands of years and is an effective way to work with large pieces of Stein.Old fashioned abrasives are tools such as saws, carborundum blocks and water used is among sculpture abrasive stone to the stone untergraben.Modernere Jet torches and laser torches.

(2) Percussion tools

Percussion tools have taken any kind of tool that is used to stone and fell a sculptor pieces of Steins.Wenn first starts to work with a stone and much of it right would refuse the sculptor to the basic form of the stone may a hammer, a mallet, an adze or verwenden.Alle are an axe as percussion tools.

(3) Chisel

Chisel in various sizes and thicknesses are essential for a bildhauer.Es are hand held chisel for fine detail work or be used for working with precious metal inlays and there are pneumatic or battery-operated chisel for doing basic design and trim.

In subsequent articles, I'll discuss other sculpture techniques make the wood carving, casting and bronze includes techniques.

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