Concrete sculpting

How to use mesh or hardware cloth when making concrete art projects.

Honestly, we would never in a million years think of decorating our homes with concrete. Seeing that gritty grey gloop brings to mind bright hard hats and gag-inducing construction smell. diy | concrete | diy concrete | diy projects | diy contrete projects | diy home decor

I often get asked; how well have my projects held over the years? Come take my Garden Tour of my Concrete Projects and see.

Lightweight Concrete Sculpture

Who knew that plasticine could be a master sculpture to create a mold from. How to make your own Relief Mold for concrete with this tutorial

Mixing concrete to make artificial rocks is as easy as following a DIY recipe and watching the end result dry. Use 1 bag of Portland cement, 3 bags of sharp sand and 1 part aggregate or more to make your rocks.

White cement, or portland cement, is a highly refined limestone powder used as a base to create mortar or concrete. When combined with water and a binder and then allowed to dry, portland cement becomes very hard. You can mold white cement like clay while it's wet or carve it like stone after it dries.

Great easy Halloween concrete witch using draped concrete and simple supplies. Sits on a step and is portable, light and sturdy.

While we didn’t manage to sculpt a great deal of surface on the little boat feature we did get a great deal accomplished today. We concentrated instead on completing all the the difficult to reach and fiddly small areas of the little steam tug. Much of the work was upside down which slows things dow

Other questions I received this week concerned the sculpting medium we use for our projects. There are many on the market. We use Abracadabra Sculpt. It is a two part epoxy putty (much the same consistency as plasticene I used as a kid). www.abracadabrasigns.com/smooth_and_sculpt/home It is mixed in equal quantities and then sculpted. Once it cures it is rock hard and durable! The sculpt is sold in kits in various sizes from two pounds to a hundred pounds (two five gallon buckets). The more…