Saturday, June 23, 2007

Sand Castle Contest at Cannon Beach

Part One: Construction of the Sand Sculptures

Today's post will cover the day's events for last Saturday when we drove south for about an hour to see the Sand Castle contest in Cannon Beach. I had never been before and was so excited, but when we got there it was starting to drizzle...which of course turned quickly into rain. We drove from Tolovana, past Haystack rock on the beach and then walked over to see the sand artists hard at work.

Some of these contestants were hard core and very good at what they do. If you blow up the photo of the bear, you can see there is a clay model sitting on top of the bear which helps in the overall composition of making a bear from sand...unbelievable! I haven't done much in the way of 3-dimensional sculpture, most of my creations are from paper, so I was in awe and could really appreciate the talent and skill that goes into these sand sculptures.


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