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I want them to not look like they come from a garden but will compliment indoor furnishings. You get me? Like elephants, hippos, rhinos and giraffes.

http://cj.shop.com/Accents_in_the_Garden -v227732-c%21.shtml?pid=1708124&aid= 10466457

2008-09-05 19:14:50 by piggywiggywoowoo

SculptureCiti® www.sculptureciti.com is an art studio supplying original and unique, hand carved statue replicas, stone statues, garden statues ...

maybe a good pagan type store?

there are a number of websites which offer various norse gods in various sizes, quality and material
e.g.
http://www.magicalomaha.com/norsegodgodd essstatury.htm
http://www.viking-shield.com/statues1.ht ml

they generally seem to be fairly small. possibly as the originals weren't big. Google may help you to find more or you could ask the companies if they know where you can larger versions.

2008-06-04 05:51:36 by Sarah C

Price: $44.09

Turns head and hoots
Scare away garden pests
Use year after year

Preferably in the UK!

Try; 'Communist Dictators R' Us'

2007-04-05 06:33:16 by Adam H

I wish to purchase a garden ornament but dont just want to stand it on its own looking boring in my garden. Im trying to find some inspiration for backdrops from the net but cant find any. AND my PC is so slow I wonder if anyone can send me some sites with photos for ideas. Its a LARGE garden. We are not talking small garden.

When decorating your garden, use the 'surprise' principle. It's really very easy, especially if you have paths that curve, and high perennials that can 'hide' the stuff around the curve. Get whatever 'fun stuff' you like, and if you have even just one 'standard lot' you'll have room for at least 10 'decorative items.' You can put one gnome or a group of gnomes either peeking out or 'working unaware' under the leaves. You can put a 'reflection ball' in a small pond or birdbath in a sunny place where it can sparkle and shine with the sun. You can use things you like, and set them where you want, because it's your garden. I live in the Pacific Northwest, and at our Flower and Garden Show every year, the people who win the top 'amateur garden' prizes aren't those who use stuff they find in books or on the web or a 'formula' from a book. They spend time in their gardens, they love their gardens, and they have a 'natural feel' for the decorative pieces they put into their gardens. Whether you want gnomes or stone animals and reptiles or glass balls or all three ... it's YOUR garden, and you should buy what you like and put it where you want to ... I guarantee that it will look wonderful, not just to you but to those who can see in or take a walk in your garden.

2007-11-13 07:10:46 by 48yearsold

I want to make a lifesize sculpture of my dog that I can have a concrete mould made from for a garden statue. Can someone tell me what materials I should use? Like, what kind of clay, what should I use for the bulk of the sculpture, etc? I've made small clay sculptures, but never anything on such a large scale....I don't think sculpey is what I'm going to need. ;o)
okay, so I would need to use an air drying clay, not one that needs to be baked or fired?

as you want to make a mold of it, you don't have to construct it so it will fire. If you can weld, I would recommend to weld a basic armature together of the correct proportions as the finished piece will be heavy (how big is your dog, dwarf pincher or irish wolfhound?). Then you can use newspaper/straw or whatever other filler you can think of. Chickenwire is useful to keep filler in place. After you modeled approximately what you want with your filler you can put your clay on. If you have a receipe for oil based clay you can make some of that. It's more expensive, but it gives you more time to work on it - which is however not necessarily a good thing. I prefer paper clay as it is easier to fix if it gets to dry, but normal clay will do only you have to be careful so it stays workable.
If you want to have a ceramic piece (which I agree will be nicer than concrete), preferable make your own paper clay. First figure out how big the kiln you have available is. If necessary plan to construct different sections to be put together after firing (look at the work of Viola Frey).
Make slabs. Usually you will have to let them dry over night a bit, so they are not too floppy. Then I would construct the body as a hollow piece. Use pieces of slabs as internal struts to give it stability (obviously never enclosing a space completely, poke a hole through). The key is working slowly but steadily, letting each section dry somewhat (not completely) to stabilize before you build up on it. Then if the body is reasonably firm, I'd build some support to fit (e.g. from bricks) so I could build the legs. Support anything (e.g. head or tail) by pieces of wood or whatever you need until they are hard enough to support their own weight. You can build quite large sculptures (I mananged 5-6 feet high) without any internal metal or wood support structures this way. Which makes firing possible - if you have access to a kiln big enough. Universities can have kilns of the walk in size.

2006-09-22 19:17:45 by Dana