Initial drawing of Highlands Elementary whale.
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Small maquette of sculpture idea.
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Templates of sea Creatures for children to make that will go on whale sculpture.
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Templates of sea Creatures for children to make that will go on whale sculpture.
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Templates of sea Creatures for children to make that will go on whale sculpture.
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Templates of sea Creatures for children to make that will go on whale sculpture.
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Highland Elementary 5th Grade clay tiles from templates I created.
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Highland Elementary 5th Grade clay tiles from templates I created.
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Highland Elementary 5th Grade clay tiles from templates I created.
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Highland Elementary 5th Grade clay tiles from templates I created.
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Section of fired clay tiles of children sitting on top of original templates, laid out in the same way they will appear on the whale.
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Section of fired clay tiles of children sitting on top of original templates, laid out in the same way they will appear on the whale.
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Section of fired clay tiles that children made, which are sitting on top of original templates, laid out in the same way they will appear on the whale.
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Section of fired clay tiles that children made, which are sitting on top of original templates, laid out in the same way they will appear on the whale.
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Section of fired clay tiles that children made, which are sitting on top of original templates, laid out in the same way they will appear on the whale.
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Section of fired clay tiles that children made, which are sitting on top of original templates, laid out in the same way they will appear on the whale.
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Deborah and Sarah looking at form for slab that we will pour, that the whale will go on.
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We poured the footer and put in rebar to start the whale sculpture at Highlands Elementary School. Here I am standing next to the spot.
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Victoria adding the rebar cross pieces for the Whale under-stucture, on a very cold day, in early April.
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Debroarah Landry and John Rawlings helping on Whale project.
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Steve Egert, Deborah Landry, and John Rawlings standing around shooting the breeze. Get to Work!
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Kevin Kulak, John Rawlings, Victoria Fuller.
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Susan Rocco, John Rawlings, Kevin Kulak
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Rebar understructure of the Whale
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Getting ready to pour slab for tail
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Steve helping to build rebar understructure
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Rebar for tail
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Styrofoam on rebar
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Foam on rebar
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Styrofoam on rebar structure
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Building styrofoam on rebar
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Applying styrofoam
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Styrofoam and chicken wire understructure
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Applying cement
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Applying cement
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Victoria and Julie Kulak
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Julie Working on the Tail
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Susan working on Whale
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Dotty Farrell, former Highlands Elementary School Teacher, stopped by to help on the tail, and Julie Kulak, mother of one of the 5th grade students (who made a tile), as usual was a great help.
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A whale's eye is the window to its soul
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A whale's eye is the window to its soul
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It's coming along
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Deborah, Susan, Julie
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Vicki, Susan, Julie
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Glued tiles on tail
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Glued tiles on tail
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Deborah Landry in Tent working on applying cement around tiles on tail
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Attached tiles on front of whale
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Attached tiles on side of whale near flipper
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Patti Papageorge helping to clean the tiles
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Patti Papageorge helping to clean the tiles
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Victoria Fuller painting the whale blue.
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Victoria Fuller painting the whale blue.
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Partially painted blue whale
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Partially painted blue whale
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Painted Whale
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Painted Whale
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We ( Bud's Concrete Inc.) poured the slab around the whale when I got home last week. Susan Rocco and Julie Kulak helped me with setting the tiles in the slab. I and Bud made the waves in the water. I'll be painting it later when the cement cures more. Almost done.
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Finished whale.
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