About those sculptures...

Okay, I've had some questions about the sculptures. As in why, how, the process, etc.
I dug through pictures and this will give you a clearer idea of the process. I'll use a current wall that I built years ago and its really plain. So much so that I decided to zhuzh  it up a bit. So the first picture is the plain wall about to get a face life. And yes, that is Big Moo, our new rescue bully who most likely spent the first five or six years of her life in a cage as a breeding dog. Bastards.

As you can see, there isn't much there. So first things first. The wall is cinderblock. After dry laying them, I apply several layers of a concrete stucco mix. Then eventually I add a few details. This was the first wall and so the etchings were modest. Eventually I actually started sculpting. But more on that in a bit. Here's the current status of the wall that I've started to work on because I'm coming close to finishing up a SynOrganics short story anthology.

So what's going on here? The close up on the left illustrates a layer of concrete with no stucco mix added. It will dry for two to three hours before I can start to etch in a design. The picture on the right shows the surrounding area which I've already started to carve. The faces on the left edge are actually smaller sculptures that I made as tile, then made molds so I could have multiple images in a large piece. 

This is a close up of a section of the second one, the "Poacher" project wall were I briefly descended into madness. I like this because the cracks are from a very large truck trying to turn in our cul de sac. They were  successful, the just crunched the wall a bit. But it works. Added about fifty years to the aging process. The good news is, it's super easy to play around with concrete and you don't have to be a writer to do so. Hit me up if you have more questions. Thanks for reading!