As we welcomed each of the participants to our last Sculpture Magic Workshop I found myself as eager and excited as the very first workshop we hosted almost ten years ago. Back then I wondered how we would fill three long days with things they didn't already know. This time my concern is how we will possible fit everything we want to share inside that brief time. As each student arrived today I could clearly see their eagerness to begin, their excitement to actually be here in our shop. Most have followed us for years, have seen pictures of work and our space online and in the magazines. Now they were actually feeling the magic we get to experience every day. Like the first workshop, and all of them since I seriously take the responsibility to deliver much more than we promise or what they anticipate. We of course will freely share what we do and how we do it. More importantly in my mind is our responsibility to share the excitement and the passion of what drives us and hopefully ignite that same passion inside them. It is going to be FUN!
Last push before the workshop
With the last group of Sculpture Magic Workshop guests due to arrive tomorrow afternoon we were busy trying to push out as much as we could on our last day of production this week. I kept the MultiCam plasma cutter sparking all day and managed to get through thirteen sheets of steel amongst all of the other things that occupied my time through the day. We also took delivery of much of the square tubing we will need for the Viking ships for the Motiongate, Dubai project. The shop is also full of previous cut pieces which we will begin to assemble next week.
Study models
As we develop the story and theme of our next project we are also beginning to build a few study models to help us out. The reason is that things often look different in real live 3D than they do in a 2D drawing. Models certainly help our clients clearly visualize the concepts. The first two models we sketched was the king of our garden world. I did a head bust while Peter worked on him sitting on his royal amphibious steed. Things are still very fluid and many changes are yet to come. This is going to be a lot of fun!
