sculpture by 

elivon noah fernandesc194212

                                                            sculpture maker

Mr . Dharmander Kumar is the sculpture maker residing in  opp. shaikh general store chandvaddo it has been nearly 52 years engaged in this occupation his father mr Ashish  Kumar  was also a sculpture maker at the age of  12 assisting his father . This occupation has been passed from generation to  generations . Mr Dharhmander is the only sculpture maker in chandvaddo hence a lot of people come near him to purchase idols  .he performs his jobs for around 8 to 9 hours a day as he starts at 6 in the morning ,takes a break for lunch in the afternoon and then gets back to work .This is his routine for the days During different celebration people ask him to make many statues during that time he works for around 16 hours a day along with his workers as he considers them as family members .

                                    

Stone carving is an activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the control removel of stone oving to the tremance of the material , stone work has survived which was created during our pre history .Work carried out by paleothic socities to create stone tools more often reffered ton as kannaping .stone carving that is done to produce lettering is more often reffered ton as lettering .This process of removing stone from the earth is called mining  or quarrying .stone carving is one of the process which may be used by an artist when creating an idol .the term also refers to the activity of masjion in dressing stone blocks for using building or civil engineering it is also frased used byarchcologist to describe the activity involved in making some time of paetholist carving stone into idol is an activity of older than civilisation itself idols were usually in human forms ,such as the faceless idols .stone has been used for carving ancient times for many reasons .most type of stones are earlier to find than metal ores which have to be mined ,stone can be duged from surface and carved with hand tools stone is more durable than woods and carving in stone last more longer than wood idols .stone comes in many varities and in many colours and related hardness .when   worked ,some stones realize dust that can damage lungs .advanced  technology  for making idols are present but ancient people don’t use it .the advanced technology are lazer cutting  and jet touches   

The production process involves stages like stone cutting,sketching the design on it, carving  and finising the product .making procedure starts by fine stone quality.

The big blocks are roughly cut in shapes according to the planned idol to be carved  the propotions are marked on the stone using charcoal and then the extra portion is taken out by hammering with the hammer and chisel .the rough outline  idol are drawn on the surface of the stone . based on this rough sketchs major carvings are done  by chisling once rough details are carved the detaling and ornumantions are carved by using sharp edge and pointed chisils . finally the ideals are smothed and policed by rubbing with stone called batty locally the policing enchanced the shine and duster of article. The curve idol is washed with water and kept ready for marketing. The quality of  carving waries according to requrment and price as well. The idols are painted carefully as per requriment .