“Namaste” - hand lettered in reclaimed slate with 24k gold leaf #timelapse

Making progress but still a ways to go. Pretty much everything besides the tip of the nose needs to get carved deeper. And obviously with more detail/precision. This tile was maybe a little over an inch thick to start, which makes this difficult. I need to create the illusion of more depth than there actually is..

Satoshi, the INVENTOR of Bitcoin, was the ultimate paranoid crypto anarchist. Be more like Satoshi.

Carrara marble in the sunshine is 🤌 I’m excited to announce that I will be auctioning this piece off at @Adopting Bitcoin next month! The Satoshi mask is going to El El Salvador! 🇸🇻🌋🏄‍♂️

Let it be (24k gold leaf)

For anyone interested… I’m posting a lot more video content of my stone carving and lettering to a new instagram account.👇

First time carving in a more calligraphic style. Still font based. I’d like to learn calligraphy eventually. But I think it turned out pretty well nonetheless. Thoughts?

When I find myself in times of trouble…

Kinda loving how translucent this onyx is.

Ok. It’s starting to look like Buddha. At least to me… the hardest parts are yet to come, but now that I can see the general form, I have more confidence in what I’m doing. For anyone curious, the idea for this came from the many Buddhas carved directly into rock faces around the world. I’ve always admired those undertakings and I thought it would be fun to try it in miniature. I actually want to try to refine this idea some more. There’s a sculptor who creates miniature versions of classical architecture out of marble whose work has been very inspiring. I think as I have time I’m going to try that with carved statues of Buddha… maybe try to replicate the look of mountainsides, incorporate live plants growing on top…

And sometimes this happens… Orange calcite has a ton of natural fracture points so this was always a possibility. Luckily I’m almost done with the rough shaping and I think I can save it with some epoxy before moving on to the details and polishing…

Lessons learned today: 1) Tibetan is not easy to carve in stone. 2) Carving letters into an uneven surface requires the patience of a Buddhist monk.

In honor of this new banded onyx carving I’ve just started… What’s your favorite fake Buddha quote?

This is a project I’ve wanted to take on for a while now. I’d like to get it done in time for Bitcoin Peer to Pier in Santa Monica but that’s happening very soon. And this is too meaningful to rush. But maybe I can pull it off… FYI this is a very rough outline done using a projector. Far from what I hope the finished relief carving will look like…

If you’re in the LA area, hope to see you at Bitcoin Peer to Pier! You can register here:

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I’ll have a few of my sculptures on display and available for sale if anyone isn’t interested.

FYI the various stone carvings I’ve recently shared are now available for sale in my Etsy shop. Would really appreciate you taking a look and following the shop if you have a moment. Please share with anyone who might be interested! https://www.etsy.com/shop/SacredStoneArt

Done ⚒️🪬 For a small piece, this ended up being a lot more complicated than I had originally intended. But very happy with the results. Carved in Grayson slate from Virginia and ornamented with 24k gold leaf. What do you think?

Nearly done.⚒️🪬 And I was able to achieve the Mona Lisa effect with the eye, although to a more limited degree than my Guy Fawkes mask. I’ll share a video with that later.. Last step is just to add a touch of gold leaf to the iris..

Wanna see something cool? ⚒️🪬 I may decide to remove the sealant from either the hand or the background, but I’m going to wait and see what it looks like in daylight before deciding. May just leave it as is in that regard. Last step will be to remove the flecks of sealant from the eye and add gold leaf to the iris..

Finishing up details on this hamsa 🪬 One of the things I love about Slate is that it’s a foliated stone, meaning it’s comprised of many layers. And when you carve into it and polish it up, those layers can be really beautiful..