It had to happen eventually. Our unseasonably cool summer finally got back to the business of being hot as heck. 104f with high humidity. On Saturday it was just Kendra, Patty, and myself. We went over our build list and ate ice cream cones. Sipped cold sodas and chatted, and tried not to sweat.
Patty started building her cannon. This is going to go up on the roof over looking the drive way. It will have a burnt up blucky danging out of the mouth of the cannon and puffs of smoke from a fog machine hidden inside. The cannon is made up of a concrete form with pipe insulation as the lip on the cannon barrel, and last years candy cauldron as the cascabel.
I cast some skulls from the new mold I made of a coyote skull. These will be the basis of some of the carousel creatures’ heads. I figure with a little clay these can become serpent, dragon, or bird skulls.
For our carousel we are going to have six creatures on poles. Now I can’t make them all, and that would be hogging all the fun, but we need them to kind of be the same. They need to be the same general size at least. So to homogenize them a little bit I built the frames all the same. I’ll rough in the ribs and basic body shape, but I’ll leave the number of limbs, size, shape, and position to my fellow haunters.
On Sunday some people had to work, and others (me) went to the beach so nothing got done. This next weekend is supposed to be 20 degrees cooler and we should be able to finish a lot more.