Churchill - sand sculpture

For an old guy Churchill didn't really have a very iconic face and so it was difficult to carve a likeness. As I said in my previous post making portraits is not my forte, it takes too much time looking at flat source material and then trying to translate it into the 3rd dimension. I like to carve more freely and let the sculpture be itself. With Winston the head had to be 2.5 Dimension as to not be so heavy it would collapse and as I mentioned above he really didn't have any stand out features except for that a bowler hat but of course in sand that rim wouldn't have lasted too long so, I had to skip that.
The Muppet who is now in charge of England would probably have been much easier to carve. With his floppy hair and near caricatured face.

This piece was made also in Westen Supermare as part of the 2010 sand sculpture project.

The sculpture was quite big, as you can see from this image. That is one of England's famous female basketball players standing in for a photo. OK, maybe it wasn't that big but it was a lot of area to cover in the 4 days I had to work on it.

Having the big hand making the V gesture did help with telling the audience who the guy was, otherwise it would have just looked like I had carved some nondescript geezer giant in a landscape.

Those magnificent men and their flying machines

The reason for the landscape was that I was also asked add some famous English planes into the composition. Again this was a montage sculpture of different, none connected elements so I did my best to connect them.
I made four planes, much like the flying duck ornaments that were famous in England as a wall decoration. The planes from the left were Biggles biplane, The spitfire (Some connection to Churchill), the Harrier Jump jet and of course, Concord. All really amazing planes in their day and a credit to English aviation.

So that is all I have to say about this one. It was nice enough, considering...

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