Stepping stones and new garden

The stepping stones in the photo, each and every one of them and many more, were hand made by me. I made molds of three different fish and made over 40 stepping stones thus far. I now have a rubber mold and plan to make many more. Each fish has glass eyes. You can't see them very well in the photo but they are very cool.

I dug out my grass and planted drought tolerant plants to live among the sculptures. It is fun to have my own mini scultpure garden.

New garden sculptures

The top sculpture is really an old and new sculpture. The top part [head and shawl] are from a sculpture I did a few years ago. The bottom part, the skirt, is new. The old skirt was made out of alabaster stone. However, alabaster is a very soft stone and degrades if it is outside. I wanted to move the sculpture into the garden so I made a new skirt out of concrete. The new skirt, much longer, made it a new sculpture! I like it in my new garden.

The tortuga has legs, a head and a tail! I made the turtle shell my first year in sculpture. The shell sat on alabaster stones shaped to look like a head, tail and legs. However, the sculpture had been outside and the stones were beginning to crack. I made new legs, head and tail out of bronze and my instructor welded them to the shell.

The gargoyle and totem animal were assignments in my mold making class.

Life sculpture in the garden

The top sculpture is of, yes, a naked guy. In the life sculpture class, we had live models who took off their clothes. He is done in 1/5 size which means the entire sculpture is about 11 by 8 inches.

The bottom sculpture is the torso of a young woman. I asked the instructor if it was okay to do only the torso instead of the entire body. It was just too much for the limited period of time we had in class.

There are sculptures of a hand and foot. Those are scultpures of the hand and foot of other students in the class.

The sculpture of the head is the concrete version of the clay version in another post. The hand near the head is a concrete casting of my own hand made from an alginate mold. I hope to make a knee also sometime this summer. Then, I hope to place the three sculptures amongst the little white flowers to look like she is taking a bubble bath. I'll post that if I get it finished.

There is an abstract with a shoulder and a hand. Our instructor asked us to combine two body parts.

All of the sculptures are made of concrete. I really enjoyed working with concrete and as you will see I just love being able to put these sculptures in the garden.