School's Out!Location: Hampton Beach, NH Dates: June 16-18, 2004 Particulars: This contest is the first one of the summer, and is scheduled to coincide with the first big weekend of this resort's big season. So I thought it might be fun to do a postcard kinda thing welcoming everyone to summer. I also thought this sculpture would be a good chance to play with a different way to make sand stand; I had never tried "softpack" on this kind of scale before and since this method is going to be a chapter in my new sand castle how-to book (due out next spring) I figured I ought to have some experience with it. Fortunately, the acknowledged expert on softpack - Suzanne Altamare - was also at this event and gave me some good tips. Unfortunately, midway through this contest the weather turned to something very unsummerlike. A massive downpour wiped out a lot of my detail and textured everything. Judging day was cold and wet and miserable (which explains the questionmark you will see if you look for it). |
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