CLICK HERE - Stone Mosaic Chopping Machine Video Link!

Do you know where we can rent borrow one of these handy dandy little machines to use to create the sandstone trees???

SANDBLASTING - DAY 2

Weather Conditions: 50ish, rain, hail, overcast, rain, again.
great crew: Larry and Kevin!
Sand and Blasting

SANDBLASTING THURSDAY!

Sandblasting Thursday, April 16, All day. stop by and get dirty for Art!

TILE Making Workshop, Sunday, APRIL 19, 2009

Tile Making Sunday, April 19, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Lyons Community Church
FREE
All are welcome!

The Clarifier is a Blast! Making Community Art with Big Equipment!

Thursday, April 2, after years of plodding along we blasted into the next phase of the project! In order to prepare the surface of the structure for tiles we needed to remove the old paint. With the help of Kevin Alves, who coordinated the equipment and supplies, we were able to blast away half of the paint. In a couple of weeks we will get the equipment and sand to complete this phase. Then the "canvas" will blank and ready for tiles and stone.

Half way through the day of half way blasting, Mystie Bracket brought a delicious gluten free lunch complete with homegrown kambucha tea and sweetpotato chips! thank you Mystie, You rock!

Kevin and Larry Cohan, (my brother), were the fantastic blaster team. Mystie and Cathy shoveled wet dirt away from the bottom to create a nice even landscaping line.

The gentlemen from the Town of Lyons Utility Department showed up at the right moments throughout the day. Moving pallets of sand, (giving a new meaning for the 'artist's pallet'), and digging with a big yellow backhoe the areas that were too deep for our shovels. They also made a special trip to to Clark's True Value Hardware to get a new window for the sandblasting hood. The plastic was so blasted that the 'fantastic blasters' could not see where to blast. Amazing they did as great of a job as they did.

I just have to say that sandblasting is an incredibly slow process... the nozzle blows one inch wide line of paint clear of the concrete at the speed of a carefully slow paint brush. It is mesmerizing to watch.

This portion of the project was paid for by a grant from the Boulder County Arts Alliance, Neodata Foundation.
www.bouldercountyarts.org


Cathy and Mystie

Kevin Alves

Lunch Table Me, Priscilla, Cathy, Larry and Kevin

Sand Storm

Tile Making Workshop, Sunday, March 29, 2009

Tile Making Sunday, March 29, 2009. More Tile Making Workshops in April and May!

Dave Wechsler, Lyons Portable Welding - Cutting Metal

Dave is cutting off the pipes and dials. It was kind of a sad moment. I was attached to these. They are have been claimed by Larry in Lyons Public Works Department. Take good care of them, Larry!