I started working as an ice-technician at Kinross Curling Rink at the end of September, and have since created a few unusual curling-inspired artworks, as I'll showcase below...
It all started with this year's early snowfall and my first snow sculpture - a rather crude little curling stone that I built with my bare hands at the end of my evening shift on Saturday 27 November.
But a couple of weeks and much more snowfall later, I had a second, and much more successful, attempt at sculpting out of snow. This time I had much more snow at my disposal; as well as a snow shovel, teaspoon, and gloves - all of which made the sculpting much easier than before. After spending about two hours spread throughout my evening shift of Thursday 9 December, my second attempt at snow sculpting was completed to a much better standard. As you'll see below, I had now created a much larger snow-sculpted curling stone, which raised a few eyebrows over the following days!
Onto my more conventional artworks, and earlier this week I created an amusing photoshopped-image of the curling rink manager involved in an unusual ice accident...
...Since I published this image on the
Kinross Curling Rink facebook page, it has received a terrific response and attracted several new 'facebook fans': It has even been spread across other social networks by the management at the
Green Hotel (which owns the rink).
And finally - for now - here is a little painted cartoon that I made as a gift for the "secret santa" Christmas present at work.
The cartoon shows Santa playing curling, with the caption reading: "I doubt even Santa could get in that house". The joke here is that Santa goes all around the world successfully putting presents into everybody's houses, but in this game of curling the house [the blue, white, and red scoring circles at both ends of a curling rink] is blocked and apparently impossible for Santa to get his curling stone into.
