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ENTRY 4 Chinese seal engraving Iteration #3

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ENTRY 4 Chinese seal engraving    Iteration #3 Every story ends in its time. Moon waxes and wanes. This iteration is my last one. What I am going to focus on this part of the iteration is the actually engraving of the stone. I have already prepared my stone and it is ready to start. The actually carving itself was not too easy but was also not hard. It is complicated in a literally way, sometimes you have to really try it then you will know. The stone is fairly soft the iron tip, however it is really confusing when is a good moment to use strength on my fingers to push and when to stop. I have made several spot of imperfectness on the seal stone, however I think every piece of a good work pays a price. The tool is what really hurts my hand and fingers, due to the improvisation tool choosing, I had to grab at the very tip of the iron, which has rough edges, and I had to force my strength on it, which was really suffering. The whole process took me arou...
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entry 3 iteration 2

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ENTRY 3 Chinese seal engraving    Iteration #2 This literation is really stressful due to the many different experiments that I have to do.   At first I have to choose the right ink and control the portion of water to transfer calligraphy marks to the stone.   If I directly write on the stone then my name after curving will leave an inverse imprint on the rice paper.  It works the same way as a stamp, if we curve a stamp the same way as we use to write or draw, then the stamp after being stamped on a paper will leave an inverse imprint.                                      this is the failed example                                                 so i had to grain it and restart  ...
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entry #2 iteration 1

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ENTRY 2 Chinese seal engraving ENTRY 2 Chinese seal engraving    Iteration #1 In the first iteration of my Chinese seal project what I did was to gather all the supplementsthat I need. Seal Stones (I have three seal stones at home they were a gift from my friend in china and at last I chose a small red one, because my research on line recommend me to use a smaller seal stone for the first try. Simply because a smaller stone a one stoke could b e a visible engrave but not for the big stone. ) Iron engraving tool (this one is made for wood however after some research I find this one also could be used to carve soft seal stones) Gloves (still missing) Goggles (to prevent the small dust and the possible injuries to the eye) Acrylic matt (a working space and a protection of my table) Chinese Calligraphy brush Ink Sand paper ( to soften and level the surface of the stone) Water Towels Tape Rice papers Elastic (to stabilize the rice ...
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