With the lower section of the castle tower roof structure now complete it is time to go higher. Much higher! While we are hard against the limits of the height bylaws of our city we wanted to go even higher. To do so we employ an old trick of the theme industry. We are building the tower with a taper. It is 6” narrower at the top compared to the base. This uses forced perspective to make the castle look much taller than it really is in real life. It will be the tallest castle in all the land!
Hazelnut Inn sign almost done
Becke and Alyssa have been busy painting the sign for the Hazelnut Inn and it is looking pretty fine. The leaves also received a spray of acid to begin the rust patina. The other side is almost to the same stage. This week we will weld up the armature for the base and gild the lettering, making it time for the installation at last.
Bricks and pets
Often it seems things seem to go in waves. This week had a lot to do with bricks and pets. I spent a bunch of time at my drawing board designing a cat cafe. I also sculpted the animals for the Pet Hospital sign. The base of that sign was sculpted bricks. We spent a whole day carving hundreds of bricks into the wet concrete. This weekend I did a whole lot more brickwork, albeit on a much smaller scale as I worked on my Sign Invitational piece. Two floors of brick work are now compete with only one floor remaining. Thankfully the building gets smaller as it goes to the top!
