Stages Taille de pierre avec Yves Saget
From sculpture to the creation of sundials, discover this ancestral art!
Training course in stone cutting, ornamentation, sculpture
Yves offers you the opportunity to learn or improve your stone cutting skills. The reduced number of trainees makes it possible to personalize the content of the training course to the wish of each one. Although this is only a framework, here is an example of the steps that can be covered during the course:
- Elaboration of the project with drawing and sketch if necessary;
- Slitting of a block or a slice;
- Rendering of a stone with the cutting of flat faces, planing, chasing, chiselling, spindle, bush-hammering;
- Fluting and cutting of mouldings...
Sundial workshop
Yves offers you to come and make your own sundial in stone during one week. The course is divided into four parts:
- Explanation of the principles of sundials with some notions of astronomy;
- Drawing of different types of sundials using a ruler, a square and a compass;
- Study and draw the outline of your sundial;
- Engraving of the sundial on a limestone farm in the workshop.
You will progressively discover the layout of sundials through descriptive geometry. A sheet of paper, a sharpened pencil, a ruler, a square, a compass and off you go...
The engraving of the sundial is done in the workshop by hand, with a sledgehammer or with a pneumatic hammer, depending on the desires and the mastery of each one, it is possible to personalize the sundial with a proverb, a molding...
Terms for the 2 courses :
Duration: 5 days - 35 hours
All the necessary material is provided.
Public : 3 persons maximum, the training is adapted to all levels
Lodging possible at the convent of Sauveterre de Rouergue.
