I am home!

[Brandi]

Just got back from South Carolina State fair. Ya all it was warm there! But fall finally set in the last few days we were there.
We had a really good time. We have been doing this fair for something like 13 years and have really become part of the family. Just love southern people. But man do they party! Our scuplture was a replica of one called "Fighting Stallions" done by a lady named Anna Hyatt Huntington in 1950 of alluminum. The largest of it's kind ever cast. It is in a sculpture park called Brook Greens gardens. Her and her husband Archer opened it years ago to give scupltors a place to display their work. She died I believe in 1973 her husband in 1950 (he was much older then her).
It was an honor to be able to try and capture in sand what she had done. It was one of the riskier scuptures we have done in a long time. A challnge you might say. Only had one lady who couldn't believe we were exposing her child to a man's naked butt! Oh and teen age boys liked to make fart noses as they walked by. (eye roll). I didn't post a ton of pic's cause this was the only angle. We could not carve the back for structure reason. Oh here is a link for the sculpture park http://www.brookgreen.org/huntington_garden.html and the fair did ask us to do this piece cause the building was focused on the honoring the garden and trying to educate people about it. They had several real sculptures from the park in the building. It was heavily guarded always!

[sundial]

That is FANTASTIC!!!!

I feel as though I am looking at a Michaelangelo sculpture.

I was a sculpture major as an undergraduate and I always wanted to learn to chisel and carve into marble. Instead I worked with found objects.

Glad you had a great time and I bet your work stole the show!

[ibcycling]

WOW

I can't even imagine what it took to accomplish that. Absolutely beautiful!!

Lora

[7rider]

That's really cool.
How do you get the sand to suspend like that (the horse's neck and head)?
Are there supports underneath? Anything added to the sand?
Or, are those trade secrets you are not willing to divulge??

[sundial]

Like resin? Hmmmmmmm.

[Ninabike]

Brandi, Once again, that is just awsome!!

[Tuckervill]

I'm blown away once again. Unbelievable. I, too, am curious about the horse's tails.

They were talking about a sand sculpture contest on South Padre Island, on the Weather Channel today. So I thought of you early this morning, wondering if you were there!

Guess not.
Karen