DALEK BY ANNE & DENNIS HOODLESS

Dennis and I got together today to build a Dalek in the Snow for this month’s Art Club Entry, hope you enjoy.  

The snow started in Perth on Friday 18^th January and throughout the week we were never without the snow until today, Saturday 26^th January (Australia Day) when we saw glorious sunshine.  So I came up with the idea of building an object in the snow for this month art project and asked Dennis to help so we could collaborate on the project.  

My first idea was to build a horse in the snow, but thought Duke (the dog) might get too fond of it, so come up with the idea of building a Dalek as we thought it would be fun to do.

We started around 10 am this morning after clearing the snow from the front of the house.

The back garden during the snow fall...

The sunshine in the garden this morning.  You can see the black chiming on the right of the middle; this became the base of the dale...

Clearing the snow from the path at the front of the house...

Duke was enjoying the snow too...

 Dennis started the project and he used our chimenea as the base, covering it in snow.  We both piled on the snow before we could start making the shape of the Dalek.

Dennis was great at making the top half of the Dalek, as he carved it out with a bread knife.

Duke the dog also had to get in on the act by peeing on every corner of the strange looking object! 

I made some snowballs for the front of the dalek.

Snow angels...

Some fun in the snow when we finished about 3 hours later, but Duke didn’t let me do a snow angel as he tried to jump on top of me.