Day 1
1 lipca, Włochy ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
What a beautiful location, glorious weather! Learning about the traditional artisan techniques & selecting our blocks and after a not so light (OMG sublime) lunch we were off...some progress made Czytaj więcej
Quick shop & drink in Pietrasanta
1 lipca, Włochy ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
Fabulous little town - so many galleries to explore this weekend.... absolutely loved these Circle of Life bronzes by Andrea Roggi
Town square uniquely has 3 bell towers - this was my favourite
Day 2
1 lipca, Włochy ⋅ 🌙 29 °C
Bit frustrating as we had to continue practicing the artisanal hammer technique knowing full well that tomorrow everything we do today will be removed by power tools Czytaj więcej
Day 3 air hammers
2 lipca, Włochy ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
Today we learnt about air hammers and how to use them. Haven't quite mastered how to "collaborate not control" the tool such that it's relaxing and not tiring 🤪
The vibrations are pretty intense in Czytaj więcej
Day 4 diamond saws
3 lipca, Włochy ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Or otherwise known as angle grinders with an expensive diamond tipped cutting disk. Never had such formal tuition on an angle grinder so that's good new learning. Not so thrilled with the no gloves Czytaj więcej
Day 5 more of the same ...
4 lipca, Włochy ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Fabulous breakfast blue skies extreme heat copious sweating collecting marble chips in my bra and up my nose glorious lunch (ravioli with ricotta butter & sage) and some progress.
Hopefully heading to Czytaj więcej
Saturday morning
5 lipca, Włochy ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
I skipped class this morning as my back was crippled, my ankles twice their normal size and carpel tunnel in both hands. After 1½ hours stretching and with my legs in the air, this improved enough to Czytaj więcej
Sat afternoon pt 2
5 lipca, Włochy ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Another quirky window and more art.
Dinner started well but my main was odd - turned out to be a kind of tuna mayonnaise /Russian salad but tuna replaced by rabbit. It did not sit well but the wine Czytaj więcej
Saturday afternoon
6 lipca, Włochy ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
One of our colleagues kindly gave us a lift into town (we're actually staying in the hamlet of Valdecastillo) and we had gelato, then drinks which became lunch once we realised of course that Czytaj więcej
Sat eve
6 lipca, Włochy ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Silvio Santine! OMG that thin marble!!!
Monday wk 2
7 lipca, Włochy ⋅ 🌙 21 °C
So I knew that Zimbabwean stone tells you what it wants to be....but apparently so does marble! After 2 days rest & recovery I came back to my piece this morning and what was supposed to be a leaf - Czytaj więcej
Wednesday wk 2
9 lipca, Włochy ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
So today Kyle offered me the brouchard bit for the air hammer! Oh game chanfer! Found my powered equivalent of the brick hammer I usually use. Got rid of all the ugly lumps and bumps from last week's Czytaj więcej
Thursday wk 2
10 lipca, Włochy ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Getting hotter again ...but not to last week's level.
Making progress, making errors, technique improving little by little....
Environs
10 lipca, Włochy ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
In case people are bored of just sculpture progress...
Sleeping bee..pics of hamlet and something very high up and some indication of the 2000 step hill hike back from bar to home...not to mention we Czytaj więcej
Final Friday
11 lipca, Włochy ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
A change from the norm, straight after breakfast we headed to a working foundry and then a marble carving studio where we could see the old techniques of making a reproduction exactly to size post CNC Czytaj więcej
Friday's work effort
11 lipca, Włochy ⋅ 🌙 20 °C
Not very happy with "foliage" I did yesterday so I worked on refining the bird's body and getting legs & knees going.
Temperature is rising ...And today's ending position
Last Saturday
13 lipca, Włochy ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Final morning in the studio. It got very hot again. I tried not to rush to do more and just make mistakes. Seems odd that I won't be working on this for months!
Came back to the house to find Charlie Czytaj więcej
Last day
13 lipca, Włochy ⋅ 🌧 22 °C
Thought I was being helpful by stripping the bed only to find a bunch of mud wasps nests had been sharing it with me 😲
Plans were slightly disrupted by torrential rain & Sergio being stuck parked Czytaj więcej

































































































































































































































Wow - a beautiful environment 😘 [Alana]
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This looks delicious!