Hunting for lizards in heads

Alice ( A Chihuahua that belongs to one of my kids) 

She is  looking  for lizards in one of my latest carvings.

The problem is she does not know which head to look in. It quickly becomes a game of who is faster. A little like watching a kid play "Whack a mole".

Garden patch heads

My three latest creation are now drying out from their week long soak in water. The one on the left I created for Corie Candee, if she decides to keep it. They are not signed or numbered and I no longer name them. I have always felt that naming them was a little precocious. After all, would you want someone else to name your kid? I think of them as stone Cabbage Patch kids rising up out of the garden. The one on the right is still being worked on as I intend to add a glass jewel to the four head.

Butterfly statue

Butterfly

My latest art work. Yard art butterfly and flower. Hand carved cement.

3D Clover statue

 3D Clover

This is my latest sculpture, a 3-D clover sculpted in cement. The process is rather difficult as your working with a semisolid. Cement is poured into a general shaped mold where it cures for a period of time. The trick is not to let it cure too long, where it would be too hard to work with or too short a time and it would fall apart when it was taken out of mold. Once it is out of the mold it can be sculpted into various shapes. Although there are limitations in working with semi-cured cement as too thin and the sculpture would be too brittle or fall apart. Once the sculpture is finished it must be placed in a bath of water for several days. The myth that cement needs to dry is wrong. It is actually the opposite in that cement needs to absorb water and the more water it absorbs the harder and stronger the cement becomes.