Carve Your Name In Stone

This Art Attack will show you a great way of creating a stone carving effect - without the stone!

You will need:

• Rubber / eraser
• Charcoal
• Paper

First you'll need a piece of charcoal. Using it on its side, colour in a rough rectangle in the middle of the paper. The idea is to make the edges uneven, because this represents a stone slab. You'll get a good stone effect with charcoal.

Then take a rubber and carve out your initial in the middle of the charcoal, using the rubber.

You'll probably have to go over it a couple of times with the rubber. Try to make sure that the edges are a little uneven because it all adds to that chiselled effect.

Blow away any bits of dust or rubber.

Finally, using a small, sharp edge of charcoal, pick out the edge of one side of the letter. This gives it a 3D effect!

Now go around the stone shape too, and it'll end up looking like a heavy stone slab with a carved out letter!

This technique also works really well with other designs. How about this fossilised fish?

Or this cave wall painting, carved into a block of stone with a highlight at the top. Try it yourself!