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

[Running Mommy]

So here is my question to ya'll out there.. How many times have you forwarded this thread to someone you know?? I know I've sent it to 4 friends so far.
As usual I'm in AWE of what Brandi and her hubby can do!!

[Brandi]

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

My friends put that contest on. And a lot of my friends compete at it. We did a long time ago and were ripped off. The local people judged it and picked the local pastor's sculpture of the last supper over ours. He only carved one side too and....oh don't get me started! But I think it is a bit cleaned up now and better judged.
What do you want to know about the tails? There is nothing inside them. it took days of tender loving care for them to stay up as well as fans running on them to dry them out. The sand there is more stable when it is dry. IT is not always like that with all sand. But this stuff gets really hard when it is dry. But it is super weak when it is wet. Most people think it is the other way around. But there are no tricks here just sand water and love.

[coyote]

Thats so beautiful. I didn't know it was possible to create that level of detail in sand. Its just so amazing.

[Tri Girl]

You amaze me everytime I see your work. I just can't believe you do that with sand. WOW!!!!

Sooooo beautiful!!!

[crazycanuck]

Brandi, you're one cool & talented chickie!!!

C

[short cut sally]

Brandi, what AMAZING talent you and DH have..all I can say is Spectacular!!

[sundial]

I keep coming back to your sculpture and it gives me goosebumps every time. It's so beautiful!

[Mr. Bloom]

It is cool! Do you call it "Daniel Radcliff in Equus"?