The answer is spinning in the wind

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Wizard of Eutopia

Mobile ferrocement sculptures? Combined with follies for the recluse or the children? Look no further; here;s the concept model in plaster of Paris anyway. It happened to be blowing hard yesterday when I made it and I found it spun quite nicely considering it hasn’t got any proper bearings or aerodynamic design…

I’ve been told do the hobbit cabins first – more practical… But I’ll put the model out there and if you know someone who wants this, contact me forthwith! Id love to make one. It would be about 4-5 metres high, giving a lifesized ‘vitruvian couple’…

birdbath and baby

Posted on November 26, 2013 by Wizard of Eutopia

Now with baby grandson Bruno! Soon he will be able to study the little carvings at the base, and elsewhere in the raised beds…

Note the toned colouring of carving – all done with acrylics, rubbed with sponges/cloths.

An Elven arched raised bed garden in Gisborne

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Wizard of Eutopia

I’ve been recovering from an intensive two weeks making this (I’ll let the photos do most of the talking, but it is at my daughter Anna’s partner’s house on the hill. The doglet is our Poppy’s pup, Honey. She kept up a constant ‘throw the ball for me’ routine every evening when Anna came home. The cappuccino maker was good, and the weather mostly kind, though the heat and the drying out of fresh plaster was a problem). Overall I think it worked really well. I had to fly back before the scraping and carving was all done, and the sealing and painting. Marco is apparently doing all that as I write. Will upload photos of painted and planted gardens when i get them!

: drawings were doodled on as progressed through

: marked out with plaster of paris powder

: cheap rebar man. prices varied a lot…

: 3 metres cubed of clean sand. Only used 2 roughly

: used 40 0r so of these 25 kg bags cement, and 2 50m rolls chicken wire

: folded chicken goes over the rebars

: cutoff and bending jig for making the l shapes.

: height jig. Help – marco’s daughter. that night she broke her hand – at a party, not on site!

: sticking the rebar (6mm) – about 150mm into ground.

: two 6mm rebars along top. Sewing needle from coathanger

: we used black steel tie wires precut – sold in bundles, it’s better than bag ties ive come to think!

: 10mm rebar for arches, bent around barrel

: 6mth pregnant anna cooked lunch

: drought victim or ball-chaser at play ?

: other doglet is an older poodle, very sedate

: Anna and her Marco

: lots of weed matting… there may be a better way…

: i folded and hand-bent – squished – 150mm wide roll of chickenwire around the arches.

: constant need to redampen…

: thin wire round the 6mm branches so plaster sticks

: trying three lacing wires at once wound round..

: Sika fibre, cemix plasticiser

: scratched plaster for better key of next coat

: whiter = dryer. also we used a sponge finish.

: ah, the coffee… View out my window.

: 40 grit sanding of fresh plaster – for rounding etc it worked a bit better than scraper

: help! and good help too; hard to find

: i thought Do a Bird on this arch

: sanded bird shows furry fibre. Can be singed off or just painted over

: off to airport… no time to linger.

Builder of Eutopia building again – contracting in ferrocement

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Wizard of Eutopia

Well, my latest practical development is a return to making concrete stuff –ferrocement gardens and anything else the patron imagines.

I met Deborah, my co-creator in this venture (who is mad keen on ferrocement and gardens too) because I had the Wizard of Eutopia sign out. So in a way it has been of pragmatic use to ‘come out’ as a wizard! Especially since she has a magical little ferro cottage/bach at the back of her place, built by a man named Weston, in need of renovation and containing a built-in water tank which under my sledgehammer is now becoming a sort of grotto of the goddess (the Chrysalis Cave). In this cottage she will sell all my eutopian objects, as well as her own. Magic is indeed unfolding there, and i am sure it will live up to its name ‘Deb’s Enchanted Cottage’.

If you want anything of this nature, email me peter@eutopia.co.nz.

Looking forward to getting out of doors more, being fit, and having fun creating stuff people actually ordered, for a change!

Then when we have some funds, we can tackle the finishing of cafe Eutopia – naturally!

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The answer is spinning in the wind

birdbath and baby

An Elven arched raised bed garden in Gisborne

Builder of Eutopia building again – contracting in ferrocement