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Amarula Elephant Ice Sculpture Wows New Year’s Eve Crowds at Kirstenbosch GardensAmarula Elephant Ice Sculpture Wows New Year’s Eve... The New Year kicked off in style with a massive elephant ice sculpture that was unveiled to a crowd of 5000 partygoers at Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. Dubbed Cool Ama-Ellie, the sculpture was commissioned by Amarula and produced by Ice Art’s Matt Smyth. The ice artist worked from an image, taking two days to carve...

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Looking Back at 2011Looking Back at 2011 Ice Art kicked off the events season by getting involved in a wide variety and cross section of events across a range of industries, creating ice sculptures that wowed the crowds. Some of the events over 2011 included year-end functions, weddings, brand launches and industry showcase expos. Ice Sculpture Events & Highlights Over...

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Unique Wedding Decoration IdeasUnique Wedding Decoration Ideas When it comes to wedding decoration ideas, many grooms and brides-to-be want to go beyond the traditional options in order to create the perfect setting for their special day. After all, why settle for simple when it is possible to achieve something beyond your wildest dreams? For those wanting something different, ice...

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J & B Global Party at the Castle in Cape TownJ & B Global Party at the Castle in Cape Town South Africa’s oldest building recently came to life in a sea of unique ice sculptures, décor, music and crowds for the private J&B Global party held at the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town. The event was quite possibly the largest of its kind held at the Castle in over 300 years, turning this iconic landmark into...

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Fish Eagle Brandy - Interactive Ice Sculpture Sessions Fish Eagle Brandy - Interactive Ice Sculpture Sessions... There are few things more captivating than witness a magical ice sculpture come to life, especially in the hot climate of South Africa. Not many people can say that they have had this memorable opportunity to watch one of the top ice artists in the country perform a live ice carving, let alone the chance to learn how to...

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Ice sculptures of Famous Faces

Posted by iceman | Posted on 12-11-2009

Category : Cape Quarter, Clients & Brands, Events & Launches, Featured

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Ice Sculpture portraits of Famous Legends – using just snow, paint and ice…

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.

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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.

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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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Ice Sculpture – What a Wreck!…

Posted by iceman | Posted on 27-10-2009

Category : Clients & Brands, Featured, Functions, SA Heritage

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Ice Art was commission by the South African Heritage Resources Agency Special Projects Department, in association with the Department of Arts and Culture to carve an ice sculpture of a Spanish Galleon shipwreck in celebration of national marine week.

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A shipwreck initially posed a problem – there is generally not much left on a shipwreck… and whatever does remain is in tatters – Can we make this look effective in ice. Plus the fact that we can’t make the masts out of ice at this scale or they would simply break… We made a simple plan however using Perspex, fishing line and ripped satin to create the sails and masts. 2 blocks of ice were then used to create the bow and stern sections of the shipwreck ice sculpture.

On site the two halves of ice were placed together and then the sails slotted into the pre-drilled holes – the result was very effective and the client was very happy with the visual appeal.

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Ice sculptures and the FIFA 2010 World Cup Soccer

Posted by iceman | Posted on 04-09-2009

Category : Clients & Brands, Events & Launches, FIFA World Cup, Featured, Promotions

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FIFA 2010 World Cup and Ice Sculptures…

It was only a year ago that the 2010 World Cup looked like a distant milestone that was to be considered much later – now with 290 days to go its almost upon us and before you can blink it will be over.

Being prepared with your creatives is a must with ice sculptures for your functions and events. At Ice Art we have already started taking ice sculpture bookings for pre-match and post match functions, and corporate themed events for the 2010 during the World Cup period for a variety of ice carvings.

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In fact we have already been commissioned on a number of ice sculptures between now and the end of the Year for build up events and the fever is already rising in S.A…C’mon Baby!

With our ice sculptures and skilled carvers we can create so many varied themes for the soccer sport, from action sculptures to the FIFA logo, footballs, trophies – Just look at the World Cup Rugby trophy we created just recently just imagine this translated into a ice sculpture of the Soccer world Cup trophy.

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Ice sculptures and ice bars like this Adidas football sculpture with the FIFA logo can be adopted to have any company logo or insignia combined into the ice sculpture. It can also be made into a luge or a fountain.

Do drop us a line anytime if you have any questions or require quotes and don’t forget to visit our Press Office and Ice Art Website for extra info.

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Ice sculpture of Webb Ellis Trophy for Players Fund Function

Posted by iceman | Posted on 31-07-2009

Category : Clients & Brands, Functions, Rugby World Cup

Ice Art was commission by the Chris Burger Petro Jackson Players Fund to carve an ice sculpture replica of the Webb Ellis World Cup Rugby Trophy for the BELL’S Night of the Stars Rugby Extravaganza at the Durban ICC. The function was very well attended from the greats of the past in Joel Stransky and Bob Skinstad through to the entire Springbok team.

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The aim of the function was to raise funds for injured players, and their target of R 1 000 000.00 was reached with exceptional contributions coming from as far and wide as Morgan Freeman who pledged R 100 000 to the fund via a live feed to LA!

Ice Art was privileged to be a part of the function and produced this 1.3m tall, 350kg replica of the iconic trophy. It was made up from three blocks each weighing 140kg, which were joined and then carved in our freezer in Cape Town and thereafter taken apart into 3 sections and re-assembled on site in Durban, at the ICC venue.

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The feedback regarding the guest reaction to the ice sculpture from the client was excellent, “A huge hit!” and provided many guests with great photo opportunities.
This ice sculpture was quite a tricky one as the supporting stem had to be strong enough to carry the weight of the hefty upper half of the trophy for the duration of the night. This was also a crucial joint point in the sculpture and so this join had re-align perfectly horizontal when re-assembled again.

The trophy also has a high level of gold leaf detail which we managed to replicate very closely.

We had to leave the ice making up the trophy handles a little thicker than the origional as they needed to last for a good 7 hours and at the end of the function they were still looking the part.

We are expecting the photos from the actual event soon and we will post them shortly. The pictures in the blog and website are taken from inside our freezer before it was disassembled.

For more information please visit our website and Press Office which is also on our site.

www.iceart.co.za

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Ice Golf!

Posted by iceman | Posted on 15-07-2009

Category : Bells, Clients & Brands, Promotions

We know it’s popular with certain Inuit clans and Eskimos in the very northern ice capped locations of the world, but very few normal people have had the chance to try their hand at Ice Golf. It’s really not as easy as one might think and takes some deft putting to overcome the slippery course…

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Ice Art produced a 6m ice putt-putt course for Bells Whisky. The golf day was held at Brandhouse and there were a number of interesting holes on the day, but it was certainly the ice hole that had people battling to sink their ball. Players teed off over the Bells snow logo and headed down the 6m course, which was straight with a slight dog leg at the end. There were a few obstacles along the course, bottles frozen on the course, and a few slight ramps to make it more tricky.

The main challenge faced was that the ball slips and slides on the ice in a very interesting manner, quite unlike your normal putting green! This was of course all part of the plan and simply meant that players needed to adjust their game, tone down the power of their shots and work on shorter deliberate lay-up shots to get close enough to the hole. One player however, actually managed to get a hole in one!

At Ice Art we can create just about any ice sculpture, and we were very keen to put together the ice golf putt putt hole. The original ice blocks were cut into 80mm thick slabs and flattened out to be level. These were then all assembled on site in a water catchment system and raised ice sides were then added to stop the ball from shooting off the sides of the ice runway.

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At the end of the round players met at the Star Bar and here we had erected an Ice Bells drinks dispenser for all the thirsty ice golfers. This dispenser was a first, we actually froze the bottle and the optics tot dispenser into the ice. Then all one needed to do was use your tumbler to push on the optic and ice cold Bells Special Reserve was dispensed. Nice.

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