this is my latest attempt at my Happy Easter eggs ice sculpture. And with this one I’ve integrated the venue’s logo at the base, so that’s a little different. I saw a bit too late that there were some bubbles in the slab of ice that I used for this. That’s thanks to a long maintenance power outage courtesy of the local utility. Thanks Entergy! 🤨
my Easter eggs ice sculpture design
significant updates on 4/10/23, minor update 7/6/23
I originally did this sculpture on the Ice Pro CNC machine in Florida. I also did it with a larger than normal block of ice. You can see the larger block in one of the photos below. So when I wanted to do it on my new CNC machine I had to adapt my Easter eggs ice sculpture design for the new machine.
the old Easter eggs ice sculpture design
This year, this is what I started with, my old design. I generally build my ice sculpture designs in Adobe Illustrator. I still had the original file which I used before to generate an I-Sculpt file for the Ice Pro Ice Sculptures CNC in Florida that I used.
Since I still had the old file, all I had to do was rework it a little bit to adapt to my machine and my smaller ice blocks. After that, I took it into V-Carve Pro to set the cutting bits and cut depths. And then I could start carving.
yeah, this isn’t your typical ice block. It’s a 30″ x 30″ ice block sitting on the bed of a CNC machine at Ice Pro Ice Sculptures in Florida. This block and the large bed of their machine made the sculpture a little bit easier. I had to make adjustments for my machine.
here’s my Easter eggs ice sculpture cut from the oversized block, displayed at Easter brunch at a country club. I kind of made poor color choices; I tried to remedy that this time around.
the Easter eggs design reversed
Since I don’t have the larger block or a CNC machine that can accommodate the extra ice, for my CNC machine, I made the sculpture in 2 main pieces and welded them together atop a base piece. One nice thing though is that you can turn the lower section around and have the detail lines on the front of the sculpture when you assemble it. I mean, if you want.
above, you can see how I’ve broken the design into two parts and engrave it from the backside for the color. And below, I show a possible color scheme and basically diagram how the sculpture goes together.
here, the engraving has started on my Easter eggs ice sculpture. The half inch bit has finished and I’m about to switch to a smaller bit.
now, the engraving is nearly finished. It just needs the outline of the grass.
here’s a frontside view of my Easter eggs ice sculpture, unassembled and still in the ice slab. I have, however, blown most of the snow out of the design.
oops, I forgot to get a pic after the color was added from the back and before I added the snow. Sorry! Here I am adding the snow to freeze in the color sand.
getting close to done! The color is frozen in and now I just need to assemble the sculpture, since the other two pieces are done as well.
here’s my nearly finished Easter eggs ice sculpture. It’s almost ready for delivery; just have to clean it up and wrap it.
but wait, there's more!
You can find more Easter ice sculpture designs in the Easter design roundup here.
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