Sea Star Sculpture Wategos Beach Byron Bay

Hi Joan, and thank you :)

Hi Mui-Ling,
the sculpture would have been approx 2 and a half metres
the larger stones were placed in the centre, and i worked out from there
getting smaller and smaller stones toward the ends of the tendrils
my husband had to take the photo as i am too short to get it in the frame

....if you look at the enlargement, you can see two of my foot impressions in the sand, on the right hand side, around 3 o’clock and 5 o’clock marks…lol
thanks for your comments and i’m glad you like it :)

Hi Lumineux, thanks very much
this will probably be the only photo you’ll see from me tho
it was just that i thought it went nicely with my Beach Series :)

thanks so much for your wonderful encouragement Cate….
i think it’s so funny, like, as you say, why the hell should we care what anyone thinks!!! gosh, ya gotta live :)
i made foot and toe impressions in the sand one day and sketched for hours, it was very cathartic and i produced a wonderful sketch i was proud of…..although when i show it to people they have absolutely no idea what it is!!!! lol

thanks so much, no i haven’t, i’ve only seen David Sandercoe’s sand sculptures and another guy at Byron does beautiful fairy castles sculptures in the sand and then puts tealights in the windows at night, they’re so beautiful and magical…..i will check out Andy Goldsworthy now, thx :)

Hi Carlos, i’m really glad you like it, thank you so much :)

yes, it’s hard to keep them out… i tried to sweep them out, but it wrecks the surface texture elsewhere….i like them in there as it helps me remember i was actually there :)

Hi Steven, thanx very much,
yep, at least a couple of hours
but it was mesmerising fun :)

lol, you are so sweet Lam, thx so much for your lovely funny comments :)

Hi Robin, thanx very much :)
glad you like it !

thanks very much Liv :)

hi sweet lil fa…well it’s a funny story
i didn’t take the photo, Scott did…..but i created the sculpture and photoshopped the photo, creating the layer and shadowing etc.
at the time i created it, i was just ‘in the moment’ completely blissful and absorbed in what i was doing….my family came out of the water, and we prepared to go home…..but Scott said, just before we go, i think we should take a photo…i didn’t want to…feeling all embarrassed…..but i’m glad he did now. I only found it today, and thought i could maybe play around with it and make something nice from it…... :)
so, no…...no-one else even thought to get in the picture! and this is the only photo i have…..

thank you very much lexa…yeah byron is beautiful :)

aw thx sparkles, thx for looking and thx for saying this :)

thnx so much Karen….it was you who inspired me to try :)

i did create the starfish and enhanced the shot in photoshop
but my hubby Scottie took the photo of my sculpture
he deserves the credit :)

lol me too fa :)

oh, thx so much Jan! i appreciate what you said very much :)

aw, thank you so much JakkiO..yes..i love the sea with all of me :)
must live near the sea, or i would perish me thinx :)

thank you very much Ellen :)

thnx heaps!! :)

thank you very much :)

thx so much Shannon, for your encouraging comments :)

thx Mil :)

thnx heaps pinky :)

tnx so much traceyanne

thanx very much :)

Hiya LindaR, and thnks so much for this lovely comment!! :)
I’m so glad you like it, it’s the only photo i have for the bubble
but it was a special image i wanted to highlight :)

thanx very much Joanne, glad you like my sculpture :)

cool, thanx kips :)

thank you flower :)
much appreciated !!!

thank you very much!
the white spray, is actually an overlay of the stone starfish, made transparent and rendered white :D

thx heaps Natsky…it was a lovely day for it

thx Paul..it was one of those magic days…where the air seems stifling and you wonder what will happen…...and next minute you’re doing something completely unexpected and creative with whatever happens to be at your fingertips..in this case a large piles of stones at the beach :)

Hey there blamo…yes, no matter what’s happening the creativity finds a way to express itself… when there was no time, when my Sarah was little…i would instead create braids in her hair…or much to my shame…i painted the faces of her dolls…for which she refuses to forgive me…I even went as far as to create an outfit and hat for “Hamble” her dolly…out of garbage bag material…. hehe….no matter what happens or where i am, always the best therapy is to let the creative intincts take over and then I feel ‘me’ rather than an alien LOL

Martha and the Muffins…...so cool….
Echo beach was our theme song…...
we would listen to it endlessly over and over….
memories just flood my mind whenever i listen to it and i feel a sense of excitement over yesterday :)

lol..yes..there could be a “Pinocchio” type story in that…..
creating the faces on the dolls…and them coming to life…

thank you very much Rebecca May!!
i see you are local, we live in the same
area! :)

glad you liked it Suzanne :)

...thank you Greg, i actually don’t know what happened to the sculpture, someone may have dismantled it, as it doesn’t appear to be there any more….i hope i didn’t upset anyone or the beach environment by moving the stones in the first place… but they were far away from the water’s edge…..in the photo i’ve duplicated the stones and applied a graphic pen filter…....and distorted it to make it look like the water is washing up over it….a first attempt at photo manipulation ;)

lol, yep i did marlo :)
on an overcast day…just followed the kids and hubby to the beach…was in a daydream…and it occurred to me that i could do something with those stones over yonder, perhaps….i couldn’t stop once i started…it was really strange and mesmerising, it’s the only sculpture of it’s kind that i have ever done….it’s like, on that day, those stones conspired to draw me to them, and create a seastar….surreal :)

thank yooooooooooooooooooooooooooo red :) xxxx

hey Karen, let me know if it’s still there! ;)
have a lovely wedding and thanx for the beaut compliment! ;) xxx

thank you very much Elaine, so kind :) xx

thank you very much Sharon :)

thank you very much Bezay….you are so kind!

thank you Marjorie, yes, it was one of those days…..lovely memories :)

thank you so much, glad you enjoyed this Pat!
i had fun creating it at the beach that day :)

Thank you so much :))))
So glad you like my stone sculpture!!