Welcome to Garden Sculpture. Here you will find the best resources
for concrete statues and a variety of concrete ornaments, birdbaths
and fountains for gardens, lawns and patios. Garden sculptures and
lawn ornaments make wonderful gifts and are wonderful additions
to any outdoor setting.
Bird Baths are designed
to hold water for birds supported upon a pedestal. Bird
Houses are small houses for a bird normally made of wood and
on a stake. Garden Gnomes are small, generally
colorful gnome statuettes. Groomsman is a statuette
of a black horse attendant also called a "Jocko".
Lawn Jockey is a statuette in the form of a black horse
jockey Mirror Ball is a light-reflective sphere
on a support structure, also a “Gazing Ball”. Animal
forms are statues such as frogs, turtles, rabbits, or ducks
cast in cement. Whirligig is a sculpture with
rotating parts often designed ato asppear as a bodypart. Spinners
spin in the wind using wings for birds or insects or petals for
flowers. Jigglers are spring-loaded stakes so
that they jiggle when the wind blows on them.
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Stone Sculpture and Precast Concrete
Stone sculptures are the result of forming 3-dimensional objects
from stone. The process begins with the selection of a stone for
carving. The sculptor may begin by forming a model in clay or wax.
The “roughing out” stage of the sculpting process usually
begins by knocking off large portions of unwanted stone using a
chisel. Once the general shape of the statue has been determined,
the sculptor uses other tools to refine the figure. The roughing-out
stage requires direct contact with the stone at a 90 degree angle,
but with refining strokes the sculptor holds the tool at an angle
of 45 degrees or less. The final stage of the carving process is
polishing. Sandpaper can be used as a first step in the polishing
process, or sand cloth. Emery, a stone that is harder and rougher
than the sculpture media, is also used in the finishing process.
This abrading brings out the color of the stone reveals patterns
in the surface. Precast concrete is an ancient type of construction
material made with concrete cast in a reusable mold or "form"
and cured in a controlled environment. Precast "stone"
is distinguished from precast concrete by using a fine aggregate
in the mixture so the final product approaches the appearance of
naturally occurring rock or stone.
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