Yes marble would be a tremendous amount harder.
Is limestone or marble harder to sculpt.
Soft materials allow you undo any mistakes or make as many changes as it takes until you get the piece looking how y.
Marble is not for beginners.
Which metamorphic rock is formed from limestone.
Limestone granite which is harder to sculpt.
Granite is extremely hard.
Carrera marble was the choice of michelangelo when he sculpted david.
Limestone marble is softer especially if it has been recently quarried.
While marble is slightly harder and denser than limestone both rate very low on the mohs scale a rating used to measure the hardness of stones.
Which teenage life is harder.
I ve attempted both and i can say for sure marble is the more difficult of the two.
Marble and limestone lie at the opposite end of the hardness scale from granite.
Limestone generally ranks at around a 3 on the scale while marble falls between 3 and 4.
The rock formed is marble.
Marble in its geological sense is metamorphosed from limestone and is hard and finely crystalline calcium carbonate.
To get the initial feel for working in 3 dimensions you could try working in clay or das.
The higher the metamorphism heat and pressure the purer the mineral aas the.