Need help with outdoor sculpture

[Dave Balderstone]

"hypertufa" over a wire mesh on a frame, perhaps?

[DJ]

Urethane foam such as this stuff. You should be able to find something similar locally:

DJ

[Pop]

How about styrofoam? It's cheap at the lumber yard, very light as a covering, reasonably easy to sculpt/saw but with some caveats as it can make a mess. Never tried anything that large though.

[angel toledo]

Hi,

Christmas time is coming up and I'm alread thinking about creating some sculptures to fill my front lawn. My plan is to create a wooden frame onto which I can model my masterpiece. There's only one problem: I've never done anything even remotely similar to this. My first thought is modeling clay, but I don't know how it will hold out in the rain. Plaster? Again, I don't know what the rain will do to it. Cement? Too heavy. If anyone has any idea that can help me out I would certainly appreciate it. Any direction to a website or other group would also be helpful.

Thank You

[HeyBub]

How to sculpt a rabbit.

1. Obtain block of marble of sufficient size.
2. Chip away everything that does not look like a rabbit.

Or,

Visit a large nursery and get one of those wire frames that, when covered with vines, looks like a hedge attacked by Scissorhand.

[wkearney99]

One wonders how well your neighbors will take to the idea...

[Ranieri]

The buildings of the Chicago World's Fair circa 1893 were constructed from a material called 'staff'.A mixture of plaster of paris, portland cement and jute - which is like twine fiber.Build a strong armature, build up the material and carve away. Should hold up until March or so in a snowy/rainy clime.

[angel toledo]

Thank you for all your suggestions. I think I'll pass on the styrofoam, but the other two are definitely worth a try.

Thanks again.

[Amun]

Not exactly instructions on how to do it.

But some nifty ideas that your neighbors would love here.

AMUN

[angel toledo]

Actually, my next door neighbor hates us. It all started when we had some construction done on the front of the house, porch, and roof. The workers made a lot of noise/dust and that just infuriated her. Every day she would scream at the workers telling them to stop; once she even shot water at them from a hose. We finally had to call the police on her in order for the job to be comnpleted. During all this I built a small waterfall in the front garden. The neighbor told us it was a piece of sh*t, however, not a day goes by where someone doesn't pass by and tell us how beautiful it looks. Go figure.

So when I make my Christmas sculptures and display them out in front, if the neighbors don't like it, I couldn't care less.