My last piece for the summer (probably) is a sand castle. Rainy sent me a photo of Castle Neuschwanstein in Germany, and I used that as a starting point. I haven't done many structures this summer, and it seemed fitting to do a sand castle.
The castly was built over two days. It's been very windy (not good for sand work), so I had some challenges getting it built. On the first day, I got this done:
When I looked out the next morning, I was pleased to see it had held up well through the night, so I started work on it some more. I added some defensive towers and a stone texture to the lower section. I also rebuilt the towers and gave them a different look.
Then I added the front wall/arch, and an arched stairway to the upper level. I really like the effect of the "broken wall" to the left of the arch. I'm always amazed at how effective it looks. Note that one of the defensive towers disappeared while I was making the front wall/arch. It fell for no particular reason, and I was too far along to replace it.
I finished around 7:30pm just as it was starting to get dark. Unfortunately, when I looked from my balcony an hour later, I could see a 3 year old climbing on top of it (completely destroying it) while his parents looked on (sigh).
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