My most ambitious project yet - Lincoln

Today's project took most of the day. The wind was too strong to make anything yesterday, so I wanted to do something big. I took Andrew's suggestion and made the seated Abraham Lincoln statue from the Lincoln Memorial.

A big challenge to this one is making the chair. I wanted it to be big, and it had to be really stable. I started by outlining it wiht sand walls, then pouring water in the enclosed area and pouring dry sand in it. This allows the maximum compression/stability of the base. It too about three hours to make the chair, though. Here it is.

With the chair done, I started on the body. It came together pretty well.

So I built the head and arms. The face came out really well. The statue had his hair in a series of waves that worked well for sand.

Then I built out his suit (he has a funky tie it took me a while to figure out, and some jacket with some lapels and folds in it. Finally I built out the legs. Unfortunately, about the time I finished with his shoes, his face collapsed, but I got some good pictures before it went.

I cleared the head off the neck and left it there, where many passers by stop and wonder what happened.