Ice Art was challenged to create a series of famous face portraits using just snow, paint and ice. Each portrait was hand carved, and the result was excellent.
The event was the launch of the New Cape Quarter in Cape Town and the faces of legends of the past included – Marilyn Monroe, Surrealist Salvador Dali, Pavarotti, John Lennon and Michael Jackson among others.
This technique requires the details of the faces to be carved out in different levels in the ice block. Coloured paint is then mixed with snow and then separately laid into the correct level and frozen. The details of the faces are built up with these coloured layers until the final image comes together in style. The image is then trapped inside the block by welding another ice plate onto the rear of the image. Portraits like these can look good for 10 hours or more.
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