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Summary: Let our Navajo art expert guide you down the right path, including tips on stone selection, for Navajo stone sculpting in this free and informative Native American art video.
Roy M. Walters is a professional sculptor and painter with a lot of soul- Native American soul. He is from the Navajo Tribe, in Arizona, and he passionately puts his Navajo identity...read more
"Hi. My name is Roy Walters Jr. I am a Native American Artist. I do sculpture and painting and I am here on behalf of Expert Village. This is a sacred rock to the Navajos. This is onyx, and the bear I showed you is an example, but this is in the raw form here. We also got French marble. It's in its raw state. We call it black capanz. Very hard stone. Very nice stone. We have a bunch of Colorado marble. We use those for buffaloes in different types of finishes."
eHow Article: How to Select Stones for Navajo Sculpting, Part 2