Carving a contemporary sculpture from a 500 pound block of Carrara marble using traditional and modern methods. Jukin Media Verified (Original) For licensing / permission to use: Contact - licensing(at)jukinmediadotcom
I am on a journey to learn wood carving. Having always been facilitated with stone carving, I decided today to do some RU-vid exploring. Your work is amazing! From the start as it got more refined I felt this fear that the stone would fracture. As it got more and more delicate I came to appreciate the bravery of a stone carver. Every hour you invested relies on your next chisel. One mistake and you're starting from scratch. Your final work is a estimate to beauty and strength as well as your artistic talent and mechanical skills. Thank you for posting this amazing video.
You are a true artist Sir ! To even consider such a carving with easily one metre lengths of marble rods 'curved' within each other that could have snapped at any time is beyond belief but you actually went and did it. In a world of declining human intelligence, achievement and cratfsmanship you are a shiny example of what incredible beauty and art us humans are capable of. I can see Michealagelo looking down on you and giving you the thumbs up and nodding his head in admiration.
Tiis is absolutely stunning, the most uplifting thing I've seen on the web for agers, thank you so much my good man. Keep up the life enhancing work. Love and Light. Christopher Karl Robinson.
only people who work with a stone could imagine out what a great skill, a feeling of a smooth touch, a talent are required to get such a great modern sculpture; congratulation and a hat down, man! Salute!
Wow sir, I like to come on youtube and search granite and marble just to see what others are doing with it. You sir are a modern day Michael Angelo. I wish i was doing custom pieces like that. Truely a craftsman.
Joey, Its amazing this art! The hard work you put into this fine art and the beautifull song by Laura, toguether is one piece of art itself! Amazing work!
Hello Joey, I worked for you back in the day in Spokane :) Came across this and wanted to say great job man! It's great to see you have continued to evolve beyond countertops. Very inspiring... Looks like you bulked up a little too LOL. Keep up the great work!
Nice work Joey. I love the result. You have great talent. I took a sculpting course in Vermont at the old Danby marble quarry and while I could learn the techniques I had no real artistic talent.
WOW ..that is a masterpiece of sculpting. Loos like a very dangerous piece to work on. One wrong move and it could shatter. I guess there`s no playing ball in the room that that work of art is going hehe. Very nice. Very smooth lines ,the way it flows it super. Cheers from Canada.
que dire devant tant de finesse et d'habileté? l'équilibre le mouvement, on dirait qu'elle va bouger dans le vent! bravo pour tout ce travail et cette performance.
Gorgeous piece. I've been trying hard to get into marble sculpting but literally no one that I know offers classes or can guide me in any way to get into that..
As a sculptor myself I'm usually a purist and only use machinery if I absolutely have to. But this is truly sublime work (and there seemed to be plenty of traditional methods applied as well)
Beautiful piece, very skilled and artistic - I esp like the parallel effect. I have a little experience carving marble (very little) and found the dust unbearable - even the left behind dust on off days. How do you do that without a respirator?!
I always use a respirator, as well as a fan (or two) to blow away from the piece. For filming, I get frustrated dealing with a respirator while trying to view the images, work the camera, etc., so I'll just deal with it while I film, which was only a few minutes about once a week. But yes, the dust is the worst!
That's so amazing ... I've just started a stone mason diploma in-service training, like 3 weeks ago, we're learning the basics but i really want to create something more artistic than we work there, i wish i can do it at home soon. Anyway, your work is very inspiring, thanks a lot for sharing it !
A bridge saw and core drills for large stock removal, then a combination of hand and pneumatic chisels, diamond blades on angle grinders. A lot of shaping with a pencil grinder with diamond or carbide burrs. Various rifflers and files for final shaping, then sand paper for polishing.
Joey Marcella I Shocked 😳 because you answered me and Thank you so much my Master 😊... Excuse me Can you tell me about the Brand Names of your tools because the quality is important for me .. and i want to search prices on the internet thank you 😊 Good Luck .
The large machines in the video, the bridge saw and the drill, are from Park Industries, although they are not necessary for carving. The carving tools I use I purchase from Tabularasa, they have a store in Carrara and Rome, and if you ever attend the Marmomacc stone show in Verona, they usually have a stand there as well. You can order tools online from them as well. I also buy tools from Stone Sculptors Supply in the USA. Typical quality brands for sculpting tools are Cuturi air chisels, and Milani rifflers. I like the Konig (German company) pencil grinders, but I don't think they make them anymore. I recently bought two different models of pencil grinders from Tabularasa, under the name "Beta". I really like them. Hope this helps. Happy carving.
@@joeymarcellasculptor you are a very humble and down to earth person. Sharing your experience to such an extent shows how good human being you are. Thanks sir.
+porque 62 I think it's mind blowing what sculptors like Michelangelo, Bernini, etc. were able to accomplish with only basic tools. It's well known that Michelangelo was impatient and disliked the roughing-out phase of sculpting and often used assistants for that. I'm sure they all would of used modern methods to achieve their works if they were available then, particularly for the rough shaping. What really boggles the mind is what they could of achieved had they had access to today's technology! In regards to my piece, I think it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to do that with just a hammer and chisel. It's just too fragile. There are many purists who believe that the use of modern technology somehow "cheapens" a sculpture. As much as I respect and am amazed at what the old masters produced, I believe that the art is in the final work, not the journey it took to get there. (Unless you're making a video, of course!) :-) I think even the old masters would have been impressed with the work some modern marble sculptors like Fabio Vale, Emanuele Rubini and Elizabeth Turk are producing.
An interesting contradiction between the Hispanic man and the traditional Hispanic song and the Marxist modern art which by design destroys traditional culture. I believe this man to be a fool. He should rely on his culture and traditions to produce art that means something.
