After we’d finished the first sculpture we looked around at the other entries to see what the competition was like. Many of them were amazing, though a few were a little less impressive…
Here are some of them:
The boy holding a book was my favourite, they managed to get so much detail into it, including a tiny snowflake on the little finger!
The one with the fish and water was Harbin’s entry and won one of the first prizes.
We had seen the original design for the one that looks like two blocks with lines connecting them and weren’t sure how it would look in snow but I really liked the final result. It wasn’t clear from the designs that they would be cutting all the way through, it’s so clever how they’ve got detail inside too, it must have taken ages to do! It was clear that they had thought about the lights effect on it and used the sunlight to their advantage.
The one of the coffee cup looked really good too, it captured the movement of the liquid successfully and flowed really nicely.
We were a little underwhelmed by Southampton’s attempt at the Titanic and thought it looked a bit like a potato waffle. We decided that we were the better UK entry, though obviously we’re a little biased!
We weren’t too sure about the ‘Ivon Fish’ either, though they had finished by the end of the second day!
These were just a few but the standard was generally very high and we’re all still very pleased with our second place award!