Artistic Sand Castle
Sculpture on Greenwood Beach, Evanston
Saturday, August 14,2010 by Omar -- from 12:15 to 7:30PM
Lower north dorway with completed walls and towers surrounding the center tall tower
Entire Castle from north
Entire castle from east showing door at top of stairway around southwest tower
East view showng bay window, east wall, strars around center tower, west arch entrance with tower, and fancy windows up center tower
South view showing main west stairs, two of west towers with stairs around closer one, and main tower with stairs & windows
Ambitous student, his sphere for head, and Omar
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 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. Today is the first time he has worked on Greenwood St. Beach, just north of Dempster.
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.