This stone comes from the Back Beach, Riverton. It is what I call a “South Coast marble type” stone. These come in predominantly white or yellow, with black or rust-coloured veins. As noted in the Post on Stone of the Day Eighteen, this type of stone can be difficult to polish and often has patches of roughness or tiny holes that can be difficult to remove.
Stone 2 of Level Two has polished with very few “imperfections”. And its patterns are intriguing:
The stone has a deeper colour than most “South Coast marble type” pebbles. This meant that the preparation of the images for this Post included the challenge of “lightening” it whereas most stone images require a “deepening” of hue.
This is an example of a stone which, when polished, fulfilled the promise it showed when first picked up off the beach.
