Artistic Sand Castle on Lee St. Beach
Made by Omar on Saturday August 28, 2010

Sun on front towers and long arch

Smaller buildings to south and rear stairway

 

Small buildings with shingles added to roof

Tallest front towers with bridges between them

Finished castle from southwest

Finished castle from northeast showing smaller tower with stairs and columns just behind two tallest towers

This artist, Omar, is excellent at sculpting very intricate and impressive sand castles. He's been doing it for over four years. and has sculptted hundreds of castles. He mainly has worked on Saturday and Sunday mostly on Lee Street Beach in Evanston. He has found a spot on Lee St. Beach where the sun remains the longest before setting, and makes his artistic creations there.

He can construct castles in may styles, including Chinese pagodas, but none of them are intended to resemble an actual physical castle. He uses up to ten different sculpting tools, but most often and common are a simple metal chistle about a half an inch accross, the spray bottle to keep his finished work from drying and blowing away, and the clear plastic tube with which he blows all loose recently sculpted sand away.

By profession he is an auto mechanic, so he is skiled in precise, exact work. He told me he is still a child at heart and loves to come to the beach and make castles. After his children grew up, he started this hobby of exact sand castle sculpting to he can still come to the beach every weekend and make sand castles.