Today, Peter and the crew sculpted a gargoyle dragon under the windows of the first tower of the Copper Crown suite of the Hazelnut Inn. More dragons are planned elsewhere on the castle facade as well. Since the tower is currently laying down in the shop (too tall to stand vertical) I had to climb on top of it to take the picture. This dragon will face south towards the parking lot of the inn. By tomorrow quitting time the sculpting on the tower will be complete. This will allow us to lift the tower into place next week. Our friend John of Wishlow Cranes is already scheduled. The top portions of the ship will be lifted into place at the same time. We can hardly wait!
Happy face
I’ve heard it said that grampa’s are biased when it comes to judging their grandchildren’s artwork. I of course would beg to differ (in my case). I have been, after all, a professional artist for more than fifty years. Juniper has been practicing her colouring and scribbling for quite some time… and they were very artistic efforts in my unbiased opinion. But today, unprompted she decided to draw her first ‘happy face’. The result was FANTASTIC!
Clayburn
A short while ago we were approached by a veterinarian from a local town to design and build a new sign for them. She wanted animals on the sign and wanted it to be in our usual fun style which she loved. She trusted us to come up with something that worked. The sign looks professional, as befitting the business but it also has a fun twist. The brick base is a nod to the historic little village of Clayburn which used to be famous for it’s red clay bricks. It was the first ‘company town’ in British Columbia. Forty years ago I laid thousands of these Clayburn bricks on a house project we built.
I worked up the design for the sign, with input from our crew and printed it to her. The vet loved it and with a couple of very minor changes asked us to proceed. The sign looks professional, as befitting the business of this type but the animals add a fun twist. It is going to be a great project which everyone on the crew will enjoy!!
