Low Rent Renaissance

These large pieces involve sculpting mortar over burlap infused with industrial grout. The largest piece (below) is about 24" wide. All are designed to hang on a outdoor wall or in the garden.   Ra -- sun god. A merman Mushrooms -- burlap-crete stems, concrete tops. Per request for my wife's recent birthday.

Made with untreated burlap soaked in concrete fortifier, saturated with industrial grout, and layered many times with mortar. These steps insure a strong planter that will last forever. "Sculpting" mortar over a concrete base.  

 

This little swimming pool -- about 12' x 6' x 4.5' deep-- is almost thirty years old and has been refurbished several times. It needed some patching and painting and we almost did away with it, but in the end couldn't part with it. We used an epoxy pool paint this time -- a deeper blue and very pretty, I think. Small, but perfect for a dip in the evening.  Here is a younger me digging that hole.  Paradise days -- my lovely wife and our good dog, Henry.

  She is about 10.5 inches -- entire piece about 16"x16" The tallest figure is about 11". Bed is about 9" x 12". She is about 12" tall.

Various mixes of Portland cement mortar over hardware cloth and poultry wire, stained with exterior wood stain and Rustoleum latex enamel.