my Cat in the Hat ice sculpture sits in a large freezer at an ice house, waiting patiently.
updated 9/18/23; now that I’ve finally reposted the sculpting gallery for my Cat in the Hat ice sculpture, this post is no longer completely worthless, so that’s something! I did some tweaking, some rewriting, and of course, some seo.
cool cat: my Cat in the Hat ice sculpture
Surely you’ve seen this Cat before. If you haven’t, check out Seussville, and find out why green eggs and ham might actually taste good, wth a lorax is, and see if the Grinch maybe has a heart 💚
This was one of the more difficult pieces that I’ve done for quite a while: a 3 color colorfill engraved Cat in the Hat ice sculpture, all hand-sculpted. And the sequence details its creation, all the way from raw block ice to finished sculpture. (If I ever sculpt something like this again, you better believe it’s going on my CNC machine!)
definitely an interesting project
This was one of my fun projects, or one of those projects that I get psyched and excited about. I may have never wanted to sculpt what the client asks for, but I know a fun project when I see it. It’s one of those that I want to do as right as I possibly can and to get lots of pictures while I’m at it. In this case, I took pictures all the way through, partly because I was doing something I hadn’t done before and also because I’d come up with what I thought were solid solutions for the problems I was facing.
I’ll be honest. This Cat in the Hat ice sculpture took a long time. Quite a bit longer than I thought it would, in fact. And it wasn’t all fun. A lot of it was tedious. But when I started to see what it was going to look like, that I’d managed to depict an icon from my childhood in my favorite medium…well, it started to feel a lot less like work.
was it an official Seussville project??
Naturally, I was curious why I’d been asked to carve Dr. Seuss-type ice for an event in New Orleans. It turned out that it was for a group of meeting planners or something like that. The plan was to evoke images from childhood; another ice-free display at the event featured Peter Pan. When I finally learned that it was for an event-related event, I’ll confess I was a little disappointed…
There’s an awesome (and small) Dr. Seuss gallery/museum in New Orleans’ French Quarter and I was hoping it was somehow associated with that. But maybe there was a tie in somehow 🤷♂️ All I know for sure is that that gallery has/had a fantastic chainsaw-looking fish sculpture that I’d love to own. Maybe they’d trade for some ice sculpting…
Anyway, enough blabbing; let’s get to the sequence!
links and stuff
I wrote a reminder to myself earlier to mention some other Dr. Seuss meets ice sculpting sections on the website: the Grinch Who Stole Christmas at the Gaylord Opryland ICE! display that I got to see a while back. There are links to both parts of the gallery below too. The rest of the links…they maybe don’t work yet. Sorry! I’ll fix them soon!
