Thursday, February 27, 2014

Cold Diver

Last weekend the Yorkville neighbourhood hosted its 9th Annual Icefest in the commercial area along Cumberland St and the adjoining Yorkville Park. The theme this year was 'Heat Wave' which seemed to influence a lot of the artists to create mermaids and tropical birds but I quite liked this diver floating above some coral along with a tortoise companion and a few fish. It was a cold day but the sun was strong so some of the details were starting to soften.

20 comments:

PerthDailyPhoto said...

I love the ice sculptures Pat, but all that work.. melting, oh la!

LONDONLULU said...

I love it, anything tropical is OK by me:) Though I too think of all that work, just to have it melt...

Stefan Jansson said...

Amazing what people can do with just frozen water.

Sharon said...

That is a beautiful sculpture. I'm so amazed at this craft.

Billy Blue Eyes said...

Amazing piece of work that

Anonymous said...

Very impressive!

TexWisGirl said...

so cool! figuratively and literally!

John @ Beans and I on the Loose said...

Wow. Such artistic skill only to last for a short while.

William Kendall said...

The craftmanship is stunning!

Karen said...

Oh that's great! "Heat Wave', haha, for one of the coldest winters on record!

Andy said...

Good thing it's staying COLD.

cieldequimper said...

What a theme! :-) This one is so lovely, it looks like crystal!

Deb said...

Great theme for an ice sculpture, I love it when the ice is this translucent.

ArtandArchitecture-SF.com said...

LOVE it!

Lowell said...

Ice sculptures seem to be popular up in them thar parts. Hard to imagine you can leave ice outside and it doesn't melt!

This is so well done! Some very talented artists participate in these craftings!

LĂșcia said...

What a cool work, I saw the picture and at the same time the image of a diver and colourful fish came to my mind! ;-)

EG CameraGirl said...

I wish I had half the talent of these sculptors!

Luis Gomez said...

Really cool! Wonderful.

Randy said...

I love ice sculptures.

Laura. M said...

They have a lot of imagination to create shapes!!!