The Sandcastle competetion and display at Hampton Beach NH just ended this week. I took two trips to the coast for cycle rides and pictures of the castles. The following pictures are of the individual competition with the artists at work.
Sand Sculpture artist from India in his first competition
The centerpiece, all work on this before the individual competition begins.
Artist at work with buckets and tools all around
Horton has sand up his trunk
Some of the gang
This will eventually be called Japanese Garden and win first prize in the competition
Artist working the sand, they stay in the sand for hours but the result is impressive
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Janet, when they are finished a mix of a gallon of elmers glue is mixed with water and sprayed on the sculptures. Believe it or not wind and not rain is the biggest problem. Sad but they are bulldozed before July croud starts arriving.
Chuck thanks for checking them out.
Thanks for the photos.
Thanks for the notice! I am a ceramic sculptor, but have only tried my hand at small sculptures in the sand....I'd love to try this out someday. this sand must be very fine.
Laura, it is special sand and they truck in 300 tons of it for the competition.
Very talented people.
I am sad to see that people are using sponsors in their sculptures!
these are beautiful
i really enjoyed looking at these
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