It is a fun after-dinner pastime to take out a board game and have a play with my son and wife. As a tool for getting our son to unwind before bed, it is really quite handy. Watching Tv is too exciting and getting him to be creative leads to a postponed bedtime as he simply must finish his masterpiece.
I like board games as much as the next person the rules are laid out clearly and most have a strong element of chance so that at some time or other, everyone can be a winner.
With our son, we try not to make it easy on him, we know that the acceptance of losing is a great skill to have. You're looking at a pro right here! I do, however, try to bring him down a notch cause is so damn good. Once he has the rules he will do what he can to become triumphal. He must get his competitive streek from his mother because it sure ain't coming me.
Bored games
When asked to make a sculpture for the 2015 Westen Supermare sand sculpture festival in England about then I was faced with the problem that they are all kind of flat, some would say board like. The compaction I was presented with was tall and blocky so, I knew I would have to take them to another dimension.
I actually don't have much to say about this sculpture because the brief I was given was just to make a collage of them so that people could see what they were. For me, this kind of sculpture can be very boring. If I had to just make one game it would have been ok, I could have explored the deep and meaningful essence of what the game actually meant to me but for this project, creativity was cock blocked.
Fun and games until someone loses an A
The overall theme of the project was Games and I will be the first to admit it was not the most interesting to work on. Although, I tried to make it interesting for myself by playing with an unusual perspective.
To keep the height of the sculpture I tilted the chessboard so it would look like you had a birds-eye view. This turned out to be quite difficult with the beach sand. Where my sculpture was placed also meant that I had only two angles to view from, which constrained what I could do.
I included Chess, (as I said). Snakes and ladders, Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble. not much more to say really. I added some Lego blocks and a Domino to the right to fill some space and join the with the next scene.
Even you can win
Full upvote to the first person who can work out the scrabble word.
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like always very interesting and beautiful piece.
Thanks, @fieryfootprints. Not one of my best pieces but there were elements that inspired other works. Each sculpture is a stepping stone.
Hope you're all well and recovered since I last commented on your work.
I have to say I love this just as much as most of your other work, so I'm a little surprised you didn't enjoy making it that much. You've certainly accomplished bringing site more interest and fun to it.
I'm probably way off with guessing the scrabble word. That could be why I was never much good at it. At first I thought Gavin, but you're not supposed to use names. We have a blank, so maybe 'caving', which was something a climbing friend was suggesting I do recently (claustrophobic me said "no thank you!").
Thanks @minismallholding. I am no good at scrabble either. I get a few short words but my mind clouds over when it comes to words. Thank God for Grammarly plugin.
I used to do a bit of caving in my younger days but I am much more cautious now. When I used to do it I would go alone with just a torch and packed lunch. I was crazy when I think of it now.
That is crazy! Surely you want at least someone there to be able to pull you out by your feet if you get stuck! 😅 We don't really think that way when we're young, though. We feel invulnerable. At least you took a packed lunch. 😉
wow wow wow.....Incredible work ❤️
Love your creative photography. Thanks for share with us dear friend @ammonite
Thank you so much. I must check out more of your photoshop tutorials I love the way you balance your colours.
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This is so amazing! 😮😮😮😮😮 You are so professional!!!! This is literally WOW!
Sorry for my delayed response and thank you very much for the compliment.
Don't mind it. It happens.
This is one marvelous piece here.
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That is freakin bonkers! As always super impressive! Kudos! 🙏
The Best Sand Castle I have seen (on the chess board :) )
Is the scrabble word Gavin?
My horse went a bit pony but the castle is probably the best one I have ever made, I really hate sand castle.
Omg this is so cool
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Awesome beach art! 😎🏖️
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