The dragon looks fabulous out in the sunshine. Because the driveway is getting rather full with all manners of finished pieces, he is parked at the front of the property while we complete the prefabrication of the rest of the features for Castle Fun Park. Traffic onto our property increased significantly of late as people can’t resist grabbing a selfie beside the creature. We can only imagine the attention he’ll get once sitting in a beautifully landscaped golf course.
Into the sunshine!
Spring has sprung officially and the warm outdoor temperatures agree. The crew couldn’t resist dragging the wishing well out into the sunshine to finish the sculpting this afternoon. The wishing well is a pretty piece, even in its raw concrete state. We’ll let the cement cure for a few days before we let the painting crew loose on it. This is going to be a magical feature when it is done. Stay tuned…
Wish come true
The crew came in eager to do some serious sculpting. We did our best to make that wish come true. The project at hand was the fancy wishing well for Castle Fun Park. It’s a complex sculpting piece with plenty of tricky, hard-to-reach and upside-down surfaces. We discussed a plan of action and then set to work. But, as always, the crew got ambitious and decided to tackle much more than the original plan we had decided at the beginning. I was busy at my design table in the studio as they applied the concrete and when I poked back into the shop at coffee time, the entire top portion was mudded - along with the two giant logs that form the sides of the golfing ramp. I had a meeting scheduled out of the office and when I returned in the afternoon they ‘encouraged’ me to break out the sculpting tools to give them a hand. The entire crew worked hard and thankfully things went extremely well. We managed to finish the sculpting and clean up with minutes to spare before our regular quitting time. Tomorrow’s task will be much easier as there are only the lower sections left to sculpt. Best of all a three-day sculpt will be accomplished in only two, thanks to our hard-working and talented crew!
