Tuesdays of Texture – Week 9, 2017

Here’s my contribution for this week’s  Tuesdays of Texture  over at de monte y mar.

These are all from a visit to Ottawa at the beginning of February. Our visit coincided with the start of their annual Winterlude Festival.

I’ve mentioned before how we Canadians love to make excuses (that we call winter festivals) in order to get out, stay active, and have fun despite our long cold winters and after the Carnaval in Quebec City, Winterlude in Ottawa is one of the biggest and best known.

So what does this have to do with Texture?

Well, one of the fun events is their international ice sculpture competition that draws participants from every corner of the globe.

There’s texture galore in the finished works plus tons more in some of the behind the scenes shots of the artists at work:

Polar bear and seal

Ice Dragon

Another dragon

My favorite of the finished works we saw

As a power tool guy I was fascinated to see some of the creative uses for different types of saws and rotary tools

Between the cold and the exposure to water from melting ice, I wonder how long these tools last?

Ever wondered how they pull off such intricate designs? Simple enough: paper templates.

Would have loved to see the end result of this one.

And some bonus texture here:

Maple Taffy on Snow: a late winter Canadian tradition.

And who doesn’t love some cute fuzzy mascots?

As always, thanks for looking 🙂