Getting Close to Home

Still scratching away at this piece, and it's looking like I'm close to the home stretch. The coil at the upper half of the figure is still a little ponderous. It's a flat heavy donut and needs to coordinate with the bottom half a little better. 

 

I'm exploring a couple or three ideas. Even at this stage, a lot of the work is just sitting and staring at the stone. Progress has been a little slow, what with getting the house and grounds ready for our July 4th BBQ.

 

 

 I'll probably have this on the shelf some time in the next couple of weeks. After that I'm forcing myself to step away from the carving table for long enough get the garage cleaned out. It's a mess. Not only that, I have to come up with a way to get the base cuts done on some of the new stones. The next two rocks are the  last of the stuff I got last September. Working them should carry me to the end of the year at least. They're both big, and heavy. I have a plan in mind for the 80 pound stone, but I'm still scratching my head over what to do with the 125 pound boulder. No doubt I'll come up with something.