This will be a fun page. This first one is a sculpture I have done in my front yard. I am facinated with the Easter Island Statues and other monolithic sculptures around the world. The technique I'm using is called "direct modeling with cement". I have done this before but on a much smaller scale. I did sketches for this about a year ago and since then have purchased several different palm trees. Well, the poor palms need to be planted so on January 6th I started.
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| This is the wood form positioned where it will stay. It must be sculpted in place because when finished it will weigh four or five hundred pounds. This took a couple hours on the 6th of January |
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| This is wire mesh with wood block spacers to hold the cement. |
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| I spent a couple hours on this January 7th. |
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| This is the cement mixture partially applied. (No...Brian isn't the model) |
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| This is how far I got when I ran out of cement. ( January 8th ) |
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| I'm applying strips of burlap with the cement slurry. it takes several layers. |
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| January 9th, 10:00 am |
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| Getting close to being finished on January 11th. The last step is a color coat with some details. |
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