I learnt the basics this week in blender and Tinkercad, tinkercad is easier to learn, but blender is more detailed. Blender can make both animation and sculptures, I don have any experience in blender so I just experimented for a bit and then watched some tutorial videos for beginners. Using the tips from these videos:…Continue Reading Week 3- Learning Basics

For my genius hour I decided to do 3D printing, my dad does have a 3D printer but it isn’t that good, Although I am doing 3D printing I feel like most of my time would be spent designing the project instead of printing. My end goal would probably like to print something with joints…Continue Reading Week 2 Planning

For genius hour #2 I’ll probably do a project by myself, this is blog post #1 where I’ll just list of some of the potential ideas: Wood Carving 3D printing Cooking Building a PC All of these depend on what the adults in my household say, since fudning and money may be a problem. I’ll…Continue Reading Genius Hour #2 Plan

I felt that my geius hour was okay overall. I was only able to meet a few of the end goals that I set out but I was able to finish two sculptures, talk to an expert, learn a skill, and uploaded a weekly blog post every week. However I could’ve uploaded more images for…Continue Reading Genius Hour Reflection

I had a private class with my expert on the weekends, he owns Rubble Road soapstone and is one of the instructors for Bedrock supply, and has carved soapstone for 18 years. He normally uses Brazillian soapstone which is more expensive, but is more soft and easier to polish. When I showed him my carvings…Continue Reading Week 14

Yesterday I went to the bedrock supply store, and I saw the expert his name was David Swojanovski but he was just on his way out, I was only able to ask for tips on how to polish it better because the bear sculptures polish was wearing off, yet the proffesional carvings don’t. I could…Continue Reading Week 13

This week I called the bedrock stucco supply and asked for tips on soapstone. The lady was really nice and told me that since it was a weekend there weren’t any carvers at the store but I could look at their affiliate rubble road soapstone website or tips. :https://www.rubble-road.com/wolf-soapstone-carving-instructions They had a really in depth…Continue Reading Week 12

I have gotten a reply from one of the companies/ stores I emailed however they referred me to the Bedrock Supply or one of the lapirdary stores and replied with: “We are a retail selling gallery and do not have expertise on the actual process of carving.  You would learn more from a lapidary shop…Continue Reading Week 11

So far the place I’ve emailed still hasn’t replied so I may need to either call them, or find a new place to email. I do have a few places in mid such as: Canvastone Art Studio because they offer childrens calsses on Fridays and Saturday, and BearClaw Gallery. All the other places however, are…Continue Reading Week 10

I started on the wolf sculpture so far, it’s going decent, I;m starting to just add some smoothness in the lines however one of the wolves ears is a bit chipped, so I will have to work around that later. This sculpture I’m probably going to do a before and after picture, sometimes ti does…Continue Reading Week 9