I’ve now finished working this piece of champagne alabaster into a Celtic knot. During the winter months when lockdown closed sculpture class and it was too cold and wet to work outside, I started drawing. I have been exploring Zentangle and line drawing, and this is what has inspired this design.
(1) Preparing the stone
![Translatext - Jenny Zonneveld](https://www.translatext.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/sculpting-project-01-preparing-the-stone-scaled.jpg)
(2) Drawing design & transferring to stone
![Translatext - Jenny Zonneveld](https://www.translatext.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/sculpting-project-02-drawing-design-scaled.jpg)
(3) Redrawing the design
![Translatext - Jenny Zonneveld](https://www.translatext.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/sculpting-project-03-redrawing-the-design-scaled.jpg)
(4) Start chiselling the outlines
![Translatext - Jenny Zonneveld](https://www.translatext.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/sculpting-project-04-chiselling-the-outlines-scaled.jpg)
(5) Design beginning to take shape
![Translatext - Jenny Zonneveld](https://www.translatext.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/sculpting-project-05-design-taking-shape-scaled.jpg)
(6) Design emerging from background
![Translatext - Jenny Zonneveld](https://www.translatext.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/sculpting-project-06-design-emerging-from-background-scaled.jpg)
(7) Shadows in the sunlight
![](https://www.translatext.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-06-02-15.43.12-scaled.jpg)
(8) Guiding lines and some of the detail
![](https://www.translatext.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-06-23-14.48.15-scaled.jpg)
(9) Tidying up and checking what still needs to be done
![](https://www.translatext.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-07-17-17.04.40-scaled.jpg)
(10) Design now deeper and neater
![Design now deeper and neater](https://www.translatext.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-07-25-11.42.26-scaled.jpg)
(11) Polishing, can be a messy process!
![](https://www.translatext.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2021-09-19-16.08.56-scaled.jpg)
(12) Finished – displayed on a small easel
![](https://www.translatext.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2021-11-14-16.21.47-scaled.jpg)
All photos by Jenny Zonneveld.
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