Ancient Egypt Art, Part 2- Carvings Ancient Egyptians sometimes decorated tombs and monuments with carvings called

reliefs. Yesterday you read about how they created paintings. he process of creating relief carvings was very similar.
A thin layer of plaster was spread over the wall, polished, and smoothed. An apprentice then mar!ed the wall with a red grid pattern and copied the image from a piece of papyrus, carefully !eeping the same proportion. At this point, the wall was ready for carving. he sculptor used a large, wooden mallet and a copper or bron"e chisel to ma!e the carving. here were two types of reliefs# raised reliefs and sun!en reliefs. $hen creating a raised relief, the sculptor chiseled away the parts of the stone around the image. his made the image stand out, li!e the one shown below.

o create a sun!en relief, the sculpture carved away the image, leaving the bac!ground higher than the picture. An e%ample is shown below.

Egyptians often combined the two styles when decorating tombs and monuments, as in the e%ample below. he pharoahs were done in raised relief and the hieroglyphics around them were done in sun!en relief.

$hen the carving was complete, the wall was whitewashed before the natural, Egyptian paints were added.

&tay tuned for more about Egyptian Art.