I've made so many sand sculptures in the last 20 something years that you will forgive me if I don't remember the full story behind some of them. This is one where I can't remember the exact subject matter. I believe it had something to do with the history of Holland as it was made in Thorn, The Netherlands and this was a very popular theme in those days.
I do know that I was asked to make some sort of tower with two characters in a siege of a castle type setting. The block was massive but I wanted the characters to be life sized and the rest just environment. As you may have heard me say before I hate making sand castles but this was a sculpture where I needed to make one.
If only I had a child's sand castle bucket that I could fill and flip over it would have been great but no I actually had to carve the thing. In hindsight it would have been nice to carve the castle like an over sized sand castle bucket sculpture.
At the top I had a guy shouting in triumph as he waves a flag. Obviously he is the victor and some sort of Rebel due to his garb.
And at the bottom, on some rocky steps I made this Knight who seems quite dead, Probably due to the crossbow bolt in his neck. I cheated a little and made the bolt/ arrow with a pencil and paper that I glued some sand onto. To make something this delicate from sand alone would not have been possible so i hope you will forgive me for not being a sand purist. His helmet, lying near bye maybe gives some idea on what the siege was all about.
Well there you have it.
Move along, nothing more to see here.
Why Remastered?
When i first joined Steem i was all excited and posted some of my favourite sculpture from over the years. When I settled in a bit I decided to post my work in chronological order and this one now fits into this timeline.
My style of writing has also developed and I have found other information to add to the sculptures stories.
Also some of these deserve a second outing so my new followers can see them and I can add them to my Steemitworldmap
So ever time you see a remastered post from me this is what I'm on about.
Ps
Thanks for reading. I use Steem to document my work as an ephemeral Sculptor of sand, snow and ice, among other things. This will hopefully give it a new life on the Steem blockchain. Below you will find some of my recent posts.
Dreamtime - sand sculpture
Thorny Vines - ice sculpture
4D Train (Remastered - sand sculpture
I hope you'll join me again soon.
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