We have now finished the detailed shingle work on the entrance portal of the Copper Crown. It looks pretty spiffy. The welded steel tower toppers are now ready for paint. The crew is also well on their way to finishing applying the diamond lath which means the sculpted concrete work isn’t far behind.
Only four spots left
We’ve had a great response to our invitation to the Fall Sculpture Magic Workshop to be held in our studio October 25, 26 and 27, 2019. There are now only four spots left!
The sculpting workshop is a hands-on event. You only need to bring an open mind and your work clothes for 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 projects individually and in small teams. You will also construct an armature and then sculpt a wonderful piece of your own using sculpting epoxy and other materials. We’ll be doing some painting and glazing as well. 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.
We’ll spend some time touring the highly themed Hazelnut Inn (next door) to show how the same skills you learn in our shop are applied on a much larger scale. On top of that, you will witness our current shop projects in all stages of completion. It is 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 of this year’s workshop is visual storytelling. It’s all about using our imaginations to do things we have never done before.
Royal entrance
The entrance structure for the Copper Crown suite of the Hazelnut Inn is now well underway. We are building it in two sections on account of it being so tall. Behind is the lower section which is eight feet tall. In front is the upper section. The two tower roofs are in place and the centre roof is well underway. It’s the last roof we have to shingle and should be completed tomorrow . Stay tuned…
