> -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Sullivan > > > Anthony, > What kind of sand did they use on that vertical trunk and horizontal tusks? > The sand up here won't do that! > Great sculpture! > Regards, Bob S.
Sand at Palm Beach is finer and softer than most other Sydney beaches, so with some damping and packing tight it would set very hard. To make a sculpture like the elephants they would probably build up an oversized hard packed block in advance and carve out the shapes as if from stone, not try to build it up from ground level like a clay sculpture. I've seen a documentary of a commercial sand sculptor in the USA who precast his sand in highly compressed blocks with a little cement in the mix, so that they'd last for months. However these were just sand. Regards, Anthony -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
