Soapstone

First attempt at soapstone carving.
It is really very easy to work, the difficulty lies more in the fact of not making marks when manipulating the piece as this stone is very soft.

The stone is about 4cm high and no, it is not the beginning of an alphabet but simply the initial of my wife's first name and mine.

Sind frei

I continued typing on Namur blue stone, just to experiment with various tools.

It's a bit too blurry for my taste, I'll try another approach but not right away.
I have to wait until the weather improves a little, temperatures and rainfall do not encourage me to work outside for now.

birhouse encore

One can't spend all his time making nest boxes when there are calligraphy courses to come!
But one can't spend all his time doing calligraphy while the chickadees are looking for places to nest!

So I made a balcony nesting box with a celtic knotwork pattern on the front, in order to match the two constraints.