Snow monster revisited

Well, we had another few great warm days to move and sculpt snow.
So I turned my snow monster into a triceratops. Seemed logical at the time.

 ...and even after several days of melting, I have compacted the snow so well, he's still standing.

This photo was taken on the morning of March 1st...other than a bit of a curve to his horns...still pretty ok.

Snow Creature

First, (on Sunday) I piled the snow, because it wasn't sticky enough to really do much else.

It started to look like a lizard, so I kept shoveling to make it more so!

Then I started to carve the teeth on Monday.

But the weather wasn't quite right for building, so every time I carved too much I would lose or break off a tooth.

So Tuesday morning, as I was leaving for work...I tried to fix a couple of teeth before I left, but I HAD to be at work and the snow was PERFECT for building. (It was even snowing a clean slushy compactable snow I was heartbroken!)

I am very lucky to have a staff of creative people who understand (even if they find it slightly amusing) that I had to go home early to fix my monster.
The weather was saying that it would freeze after Tuesday, so I knew I had to get it done now or never. I drove home & got there just before noon, and skipped lunch: shoveling and hand building till at least 4:30.

My Snow creatures teeth are much better now, and he has a left front foot at wee as a left back leg now!

Then after dark I tried to use glow sticks to light up the eyes and the mouth.

unfortunately glow sticks are not bright enough!

 I have already purchased some inexpensive LED flashlights, 

and tonight I will try to light it up again!

Thanks to the employees of Artists' Mediums Inc. for indulging my hobby.

Winter 2011-2012 snowsculptures...

Winter 2011-2012 snowsculptures...Well this is the only on I had the chance to try.

 
 

You can almost see the fish I was working on before it melted away the next day.

Do you remember winter?

I know, this year we haven't had much snow.
Although where I live -there is actually snow on the ground!
I have been trying to decide if it is worth it to try to carve anything out of my snowpile.
It's not very big and the temperature seems too cold to sculpt when I have the time.

I started thinking...

 I was remembering previous snowy years.






Sometimes we have been known to get this much snow:

I remember John and I, building a snowsculpture, in the style of Calvin and Hobbes...

 I am not complaining. The drive to work has been safer than ever.
I just thought I'd  take a look back as I load these photos into the snowscultpting page. I do hope you are all having a safe and wonderful winter.
I have finished 3 watercolors lately, but left them at work, so I will photo those and load them onto the computer next weekend or sooner...
c

Another collage

This is one that I made about 3 years ago, it's called "Eat your greens, and then we'll roast marshmallows!"

This is a close up, in person - you can see that the marshmallow is 3-D.

Snow

I have started posting the snow sculptures from last year as a Snow Scuplture page (clickhere).

 I will continue updating it as time goes on...

I'd better start thinking about how to pile the snow this year...
:)

I forgot to post my Pumpkin Carvings

Autumn has always been the smell of burning jack-o-lanterns in my house.

As we all enjoy our Thanksgiving festivities, I just wanted to show off the carving I did for Halloween.

Leaves are NEAR Peak..

Or maybe perfectly at peak...where I live.
Someone at my work didn't believe me since everything in town is all green..

but there's the proof! The color up in my neck of the woods is Phenominal!!!
Just in time for Open Studio!
(I've been sick for several days..but I am much better now, and ready for a bout of ART!)

I looked around the house...
It seems I have - prepared for Open Studio:

Framed artwork:
40 Oil Paintings
4 Acrylics
5 Watercolors
10 Monoprints
2 Blockprints
1 Collage
 As well as 6 Sculptures

13 unframed monoprints and multiple prints and Cards.

Here I sit, the signs are up, and I'm going to mix some OIL Paint!
YAY!

Is art useless?

Coin Bear (useful) Sculpture-Chelsea

Oscar Wilde  again:

"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admire it intensely.

All art is quite useless."

Personally I disagree. -c

Any opinions?