The Sign Invitational is now only nine weeks distant. There is no doubt that in the next weeks our shop will become busier so it is time to get my entry finished and on the way to the International Sign Association EXPO in Las Vegas. In the last weeks I’ve found time to finish the bulk of the sculpting and also complete much of the painting and glazing. While the areas are much smaller than our regular work the amount of detail remains the same. It is mostly about working with much smaller tools than usual. This being a long weekend, I am finding a few hours to work on the piece and I’m having a lot of fun!
Scaly beauty
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.
