We cut sixteen triangles of heavy gauge steel which Matt tacked together to form the roof cap for the Copper Crown tower. A second cap is in progress for the other castle tower as well. We’ll test fit the piece tomorrow before final welding, grinding and painting. The custom finial is underway too. It won’t be long until it all goes up into place.
Sculpture Magic Workshop
We are pleased to announce our 2019 Fall Sculpture Magic Workshop will be held October 25, 26 and 27, 2019. There are a limited number of spots available on a first come, first serve basis.
The sculpting workshop is designed to light your creative fires! We explore how we come up with our ideas, and what tools and materials we use to bring them to life. By breaking everything down into simple steps, we will discover that anything is possible. Our workshops are structured to take the mystery out of our craft and make it fun. Those who take the workshops are fully immersed in our creative world for three intensive days.
The sculpting workshop is definitely a hands-on event. Bring work clothes and work boots. We’ll supply everything else. You’ll weld, attach lath, mix our special formula of concrete, apply cement, and sculpt it. You will work on a variety of samples individually and in small teams. You will also construct an armature and then sculpt a wonderful piece of your own using sculpting epoxy. We want you to try your hand at every task we do in our shop, learning the process of exactly how we do our projects. It’s a whole lot to squeeze into three days, but it is our goal to share as much as we possibly can of what took us more than forty years to learn ourselves.
It’s going to be a fun and fast paced three days. The theme is visual storytelling. It’s all about using our imaginations to do things we have never done before.
For more information go to http://www.imaginationcorporation.com/sculpting-workshop or drop me an email dan@imaginationcorporation.com
375 down - 66 to go!
When I am done there will be four hundred and forty-one hand cut shingles on this tower roof for the Copper Crown. I have sixty-six shingles left to go before it is finished but I’ve now made it to the top at last! The shingles are ten inches wide in the bottom row and only four inches wide by the time we get to the top of the turret. Once the shingles are on we’ll do some calculating and designing and then fire up the plasma cutter to cut the metal pieces for the topper and weather vane. We’ll carefully tack the funnel shape together and then test fit before welding it solid and grinding it smooth. Then it will be painted to look like weathered copper. We’ll have to roll the pieces out of the shop before we assemble it permanently and lift it into position along with a bunch of other finished pieces.
