What is the process of stone mountain carving?

According to the literal understanding, stone mountain carving is a sculpture that uses various stone mountains to create finished products.

The creation methods of stone mountain carving include carving, engraving and sculpture. There are two modeling techniques: one is round carving, and the other is relief carving. Round sculpture has a wide range of applications, and it is also a common sculpture form for ordinary people. For example, the portraits or animal sculptures in the park are made by the method of round carving. Reliefs are relatively rare in daily life, and the main forms include shrine-style, high-relief, shallow-relief, line engraving, and hollow-out.

Stone mountain carvings are very good works of art, which become works of art through a series of carving processes. So how does it carve and what are the steps? Only after a clear understanding can it become a good work of artistic value. Let's take a look at the process of stone mountain carving process.
The process of stone mountain carving is roughly divided into three steps: land reclamation, refining and polishing.
Land reclamation is divided into three stages:
To open up the wilderness, chisel off the excess parts of the stone mountain, until the rough outline of the carving is chiseled.
To open up the middle wasteland is to further knock out the general outline of the sculpture into the basic shape of the relationship between body and surface.
To open a small wasteland is to further chisel the carving process to a thickness of about 1 cm from the finished product size.
Of course, due to the different habits of each stone carving master, the three processing processes are sometimes carried out alternately, and there is no fixed procedure.
Thinning: It refers to chiseling off the excess parts left over from the previous "opening up a small wasteland" to depict the details of the image and shape. Fine carving is an important stage of artistic processing of stone statues. Whether a carving is good or not depends on this stage, so it is necessary to carve patiently. The main tools used for thinning are tooth chisel, flat chisel, stone file and so on.
Grinding: on the basis of fine Stone Carving, according to the artistic effect required by the image, use grinding tools to grind and polish the carving in whole or in part, so as to highlight the texture of the stone mountain and increase the gloss effect of the stone mountain carvings, and Improve artistic appeal.