His paintings became more sculptural, until one day he started carving a block of stone from the Brooklyn Bridge.
THESE days, you can't swing a handle of small-batch liquor without hitting a mustachioed mixologist carving a block of ice into the shape of a bow tie.
It is a question that increasingly comes to mind as I carve a block from raw stone, chisel my lapidary mark onto it, just like a stonecutter from 800 years ago, and then help the mason set the block into the wall.
Yeah, I would imagine when you're carving a block of ice, you would have to be really careful about it breaking.
The father reaches over and, using his finger, carves out a block of the water — manta rays, fish and all — then transports it home and places it inside the Samsung 3-D television.
One of the tornadoes trailing the hurricane roared without warning into the sleeping island city of Galveston, Texas, this morning, carving a block-wide path from the sea wall to the bay front.
"We generally prefer using C.N.C.s"—computer-numerical-control milling machines, which carve into a block of material.
Mr. Frasconi's was patient and meticulous in his art, which involves making an impression on paper from a design carved in a block of wood.
Jerelyn Hanrahan's sculpture "Jerry Curl" (1991-2008), an expressive figure carved from a block of travertine, is also nicely sited in a garden bed.
With his chiseled physique, commanding square jaw and sharp buzz cut, Mr. Lang might almost seem to be carved from a block of granite.
