We are finally nearing the end of the fabrication of four wall-mounted sculptures for the Cascade Middle School.
This one, the Bitter Cherry circle just needs Jean to make parts for the Spotted Towhee. You can see the partially completed body of the Towhee tacked-in place on a lower branch.
Here Jean is filing some cheries before they were welded into the piece:
Here is a color rendering of what the Bitter Cherry Circle will look like with paint on it, and with the Towhee completed.
The cheries were made by forging steel discs into little bowl-shaped parts:
These parts were welded together and then the welds were ground smooth. There are some willow buds, being made the same way, in this photo as well:
Here is Jean's color rendering of the Vine Maple Circle:
And here Nick is forging one of the large Vine-Maple leaves for this sculpture:
In the shop we use scale drawings like this one to help assemble the sculptures. Our work tables have matching grids marked out on them:
Here is the Vine Maple Circle when it was half-way through the assembly process:
The Maple circle after all parts were assembled, hanging on the wall above the 1/2 scale drawing:
Here is the color rendering of the Starflower circle:
Starflower parts, ready for assembly:
A closer view of the Starflower parts:
And the rendering of the Willow and Warbler circle:
Here is the Willow and Warbler Circle with the main branches all complete, about to be welded to the central stem:
And the same piece after all parts were welded in and the welds were ground and filed smooth:
