As bright and sunny as yesterday was, today was not. It did start out sunny, but that lasted about as long as it took us to have breakfast. By the time we started carving at 9:00am the sky had clouded over.
Don’t get me wrong, the carvers don’t mind carving under a cloudy sky because the sun can create havoc like yesterday. In less than 36 hours we had gone from above freezing temperatures to a blizzard on Thursday night. The following short video shows what it was like carving at 8:30pm.
Now, to get back to the sculpture. Things progressed quickly and by the end of the day Theressa and Carole had the tops of the three masks looking very good. Theressa was working on the outside and Carole was working on the inside. Terry spent his time removing snow from underneath them and also spent some time roughing out the bottoms of the faces.
Carole and Theressa working on the scaffold 8 feet off the ground
The cold helped form a crust on the outside layers. This normally helps the sanding process but we were far from this step. It just meant that the inside snow was protected from the cold and, in fact, it was still quite soft and mushy.
In total we carved about 10 hours and were able to get quite a bit accomplished. When we quit for the day (at 9:15pm) we were able to see some nice shadow effects on the various edges of the masks. With the night lights, and the sun if it comes back, the shadows should have fun playing across the three masks.
Theressa is looking into the blizzard while trying to carve one of the masks.
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