Saturday was not like the other days. Yes, we had sun and very little wind, but the day turned warm. Actually, it was too warm to do much sculpting on the sunny south side of the piece. It just so happened that this was also the most important side of the sculpture as it was the dragon’s face.
Terry starts the day by dusting
Others have told us that we have great lines and negative space (cut outs) and we tried to do the same on this sculpture, even if it meant laying down on the job.
Typical Theressa … laying down when there’s work to do !!
We had decided to do the dragon’s face on the last day and that was probably not a great choice, as we couldn’t get the finish we so desire. It started to cool off at 3:30pm as the sun started to set, but we were in the process of packing up and doing some other last minute chores. What was done…will forever be done…no going back.
We finished at 4:00pm today after putting in a 7 1/2 hour day and were assisted by Denis from Quebec, Laura and Miquel from Argentina, Kris from New Mexico and Allan from Winnipeg.
Team International Saskatchewan
All told, we worked about 31 hours on this sculpture and if you add everybody’s contribution it totaled about 100 hours. We didn’t pull any all-nighters like in Quebec, but we did work one evening after the opening ceremonies. In hindsight, we would work a couple of nights early on when we would be doing the rough shaping and then work during the daylight hours for the fine sculpting and sanding at the end.
A 360 degree view of Tupsy-Turvey (click to view full size)
We didn’t get any night shots of the final piece as the lights were on the backside.
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