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60 sand carvers from all over the world came to
Blankenburge to carve out an Italian Rennasiance theme. Roger(Vancouver Island) and Abraham (St Ives....now livingin Goa) and myself were given "The Coleseum" as a project. We had one side of a levee of sand (soft pack....not compacted) about 9 ' high and 35' long. Abe's job was to make all the miniature statues out of sand. He worked in a covered area nearby (it rained). Roger and I did all the architecture. I'm sure you're noticing ......it's not beach sand |
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after 4 days of carving columns and arches,Abe
brings a statue over.....we slide it into place. The reddish brown carving sand was dumped on top of the cheaper grey fill sand.The grey stuff exposed itself as one can see. We'll have to patch/replace with the red stuff. |
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In the mean time Laurent wires the top arched
tier for lighting. The wiring had to be done as the details were carved. Laurent was a busy man. The sand sculpture park encompassed several acres. |
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The second tier's architecture
is almost complete. The bad sand has been dug out but not yet replaced with the carving sand(right side). |
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columns/arches.....we'd already screwed up in that the corinthian ones were to be on top and ionic in the middle. One person noticed....one of the Italians. I was soon to report to the 20 meter mountain of hard pack(compacted) sand (seen in the background) to carve Pisa leaning against the right side. |
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All done with this.........Abe needs to
bring in a few more statues to fill in the left side of the second tier. He'd become swamped with all the other mini statues needed for the other exhibits. |
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at night
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Two lovely Russian carvers, Ludmilla
and Masha (mother and daughter) from Moscow , relaxing at the end of the day. |
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reported to the top of the tallest pound up......to
carve Pisa...carving arches and columns again. |
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Patricia from from Saskatoon jumped up to help
me after I'd been carving a few days. She's sitting on top of the forms used to pack the sand. We'd carve down as far as we could, Laurent came up to install lights, then the tech crew arrived to pull out the next layer of forms and the whole process started again. |
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One of the talented russians sculptors (Sergey )
gives my friend Andy (see sandsculptusa.com) a few pointers about face carving. The two of them did a beautiful piece. |
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Igore (another Russian),
does some repair to his piece that became rain damaged. This guy was an incredible sculptor. |
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Kimberly, a dutch graphic designer,
and I worked the last few days on this little piece of Venice. |
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carving sponsor logos .........
the last bit of carving before the park opens |
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