How do you do that? Outdoor cement sculpture

We are having beautiful days and the dry weather has given me a reprieve to get back out to my sculptural wall. Earlier I showed you pictures of how I build the base for the free curved wall. I have spent several days throwing mud into the core of the wire frame, which is filled with recycled bottles, cans, pots and metal. I have almost finished filling the core on the entire wall. I literally throw the mud at the sides of the wall. Anything with an over hang is the hardest part for the mud to hold. Sometimes you take a board or your hands and literally hold it there for several minutes so that it starts to set. To build mud in the inner parts of the wall I throw it hard into the core. I am also building up my lizard. This is an additive process. You can only add so much height with cement at a time unless you are using a mold. It gets to a certain weight and collapses on itself. Now I am making the lizards legs and giving it detail shaping.










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