Faux bois Wedding gift ❤️❤️#20

The hard work is done. I did a little sanding on the seat so it won’t snag anyone clothes and then I was able to get some help moving it to a place where I can stand back and look at the work.

Front and reflection in the pond

Front and reflection in the pond

Back view

Back view

Bronze

Bronze

Lovebirds back

Lovebirds back

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Left side view

Left side view

Left back leg

Left back leg

Back right leg

Back right leg

Another view of the back right legs

Another view of the back right legs

Back right view of right legs

Back right view of right legs

Back branch

Back branch

Back left where back branches and legs connect

Back left where back branches and legs connect

Front right legs - I love their hug

Front right legs - I love their hug

the seat texture

the seat texture

A piece of metal that was in my Dad’s ashes and his last name - Travis carved to the right of the metal bolt. I am guessing it is from one of his four hip replacements.

A piece of metal that was in my Dad’s ashes and his last name - Travis carved to the right of the metal bolt. I am guessing it is from one of his four hip replacements.

Griffin and Alex after their vows. - the lovebirds January 3, 2018

Griffin and Alex after their vows. - the lovebirds January 3, 2018

They will be in Houston for two weeks for Sage and Cameron Cuenods legal wedding vows June 12, 2020.

I Am looking forward to showing it to them. And I would like their opinion regarding a stain/patina.

Faux bois Wedding gift ❤️❤️#13

Last Thursday while in Coronavirus 19 quarantine/social distancing I poured a top coat for the upper branches. I actually mixed all the ingredients over a year ago and then got caught up in making the pieces for my Hurricane Harvey Heroes exhibition 51.88” -Art of Resilience. The bucket of dry mix sat by the cement mixer untouched.

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The piece will hydrate for 5 days. If it dries too quickly the concrete will crack. I (actually we, Curtis helped me) build a cube out of pvc. I covered it in heavy sheets of plastic that I cut and sewed to fit the cube. I then installed two construction zippers to allow me to get in and check the humidity. I put a humidifier in the cube with the bench, the humidifier keeps the concrete very moist.

Today I started to prepare the dry ingredients so that I can mix the concrete tomorrow morning.

I prepared 30 lbs. of dry ingredients, 10 pounds of fly ash and 20 lbs. of white concrete. And then I panicked - is the piece in white concrete or is it in grey? With the fly ash mixed with the concrete and the piece being wet, I can not determine what color it is. Yikes! this is a problem. I decided to mix a second bucket of dry ingredients. Tomorrow I will be ready for anything.