The Old Woman’s shoe is now mostly primed and ready for more paint next week. It won’t be long until it is ready for shipment so the kids can enjoy it in the Storybook Land at Vala’s Pumpkin Patch in Nebraska.
Pumpkin inside
It was a tight fit, but today we stuffed Matt inside the pumpkin so he could apply the concrete and then sculpt it to a perfect finish that mimicked the inside of a carved pumpkin. Applying upside down concrete mud is always challenging, but a curved ceiling in a tight space is doubly so. It was a lot like scraping out a real pumpkin. Matt, of course, was up for the challenge and did a fabulous job. He also applied the concrete to the window and door sills and the twisted pumpkin stem. Next week, the crew will do the outside skin, which will make it ready for us to weld the armature for Peter the Pumpkin Eater. Stay tuned as this piece quickly comes together…
Pumpkin wired
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater’s pumpkin armature is now fully wired and ready for the sculpted concrete skin. It won’t be long until we won’t be able to see through it.
