Things tagged as Flint.
The big knapp
I want to knapp a big stone. Some nodules are very big; my main restriction will probably be how big a blow I can deliver ( one can think of mechanical hammers or ...
Knapping Saturday
In the short break that the rain had on Saturday, some fine June sunshine baked us - a group of nine would be flintknappers in a farm near Buxted, East Sussex. The ...
Flint - Earth and Sea #3
Getting gritty.... A collection of thoughts and data about the coast. Looking back on my notes I found a few sketches about the flint and lime breakdown. I keep going through this in my mind ...
Flint, the Sea #2, and Man.
I wanted to use in a work the process occurring to flint and chalk in the coast. It is very easy for me to fall into an illustrative mode in which a ...
Flint - Earth and Sea
Looking at the flakes on the ground; then rearranging them from the nodule to the tiniest of flakes produced by the pressure of a pointed antler's tine against a palm covered with ...
The order of things.
With the purest shape in mind, I need to let go of any other concept to produce a mark that will surprise me. One that is familiar because I know it ...
Flint on the go.
On the train to London Bridge and back home, daily, I sketch bits of stone on paper. The table is narrow and is shared with three more fellow commuters for most of ...
Knapping # 2
After a three hours session with Will Lord, in which I have bashed and crumbled and flaked and reduced fine quarried flint to dust, I can see ...
Knapping
I was striking flints together yesterday. The sun was shining just after the rain and the birds were singing. At first i wasn't sure the smell was coming from the flint. It ...