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This year marks my 5th year as an ice carver at Noel Night and also my last time being able to get paid to play with fire, chainsaws and other sharp objects and actually be paid for it. This is the sculpture I did for my last year of Ice Carving.

This piece was biased on one my newer experimental paintings I created as an illustration about economics and creativity while it was still in the sketch phase. Taking a sketch that is intended to be a 2D image and making it a 3D piece of art is a lot easier than taking a sculpture and making it a 2D image. I like the challenge, I already knew the proportions of the block of ice from previous years so I did a step by step diagram for how I planned to translate the drawing into a sculpture. As a result it made carving the sculpture was a lot easier.

5 years ago I was given the opportunity to be apart of an ice carving event in Noel Night. For the event artists from Wayne State University and College for Creative Studies (CCS) did ice sculptures in front of the Detroit Institute of Art. That year we worked in teams according to our school and were put in a combination of sorts. I was teamed up with artists from I was teamed up with artists mostly from the fine art department of CCS and one other illustration student (I am an illustration major as well), we worked together and did a collaborative sculpture out of 5 blocks of ice.

2006

That was the last time the schools competed at Noel Night from then on the event took on more of a theme of unity between the schools. Every year after that the artists from Wayne State and CCS were paired up together to help each other with ideas and the actual carving of individual sculptures.

2007

2008

2009