sculpturing

1. 1
   noununcountable

   The act of carving or molding material into three-dimensional forms, or the resulting work itself.

   Years of sculpturing had left calluses across the artist's hands.

   The gallery's collection of modern sculpturing drew critics from across the country.

   Similarsculpting, carving, modeling

   Note

   The noun readily takes a plural, and it often names shapes that nature carves rather than an artist. William C. Wonders, in Canada's changing North (2003), calls the wind-eroded ridges of snow sculpturings and notes they are also known as zastrugi. That makes it a useful word for landforms and surfaces shaped by erosion, where sculpture would suggest a gallery piece.

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of sculpture.

   The artist is sculpturing a life-sized horse for the town plaza.

   She enjoys sculpturing whenever she has a free weekend.

   Note

   Grammatically this is a verb form with two jobs. After be it builds the progressive (is sculpturing a horse). After verbs like enjoy it works as a gerund, naming the activity itself. The verb sculpture is a longer partner of sculpt, and it reaches beyond the studio: wind or water can be sculpturing a cliff. The same spelling also serves the noun for shaped work.

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