Westies dog sculpture

West Highland White Terrier sculpture

 

A large block of bright Portland Limestone arrived at my workshop – it had been ordered many weeks previously for a commission to carve three ‘Westie’ dogs.

Making a start – first chips and initial shaping

Carving start    Carving Portland stone    starting carving

Carving the block

 

Stages of carving the dogs

 

Roughing out my sculpture shape

Carving 1    Carving 2    Carving 3

Carving 4    Carving 5    Carving 6

Carving 7    Carving 8    Carving 9

Carving 10

Carving 11    Carving 12    Carving 13

Carving 14

Carving 15

Carving16    Carving 17    Carving 18

Carving 19    Carving 20    Carving 21

Carving 22    Carving 23    Carving 24

Carving 25

Carving 26

Carving 27

Westies carve1    Westies carve 3    Westies carve 2

W1    W2    W3

Westies sculpture in progress

dog3    dog1    dog2

dogs4

threew2    threew1    threew3

threew4