Amazing Sand Sculptures Championship

The World Championships in creating sculptures from sand, was closed on 3rd October.  The event was held in Washington from September 8 to October 3.  Artists from all over the world competed for the title in three categories: solo, duet and team.  The winner in solo was Thomas Koeta from Florida for Whirlwind and the Sculpture The distance gives perspective, won first place in the category of duet .  Check out these amazing art works after the jump ¦

Katie Corning, Geoff Strong and Kirk Reydmeyker of the U.S. team are working on a sand sculpture of open mind

Artist starts to carve his sculpture. He will cut it for another three days, working for about 8 hours a day

Cut out the face, Helena Bangert from Amsterdam

Spectators watch as Remy Girts from the Netherlands is working on his sculpture Bountiful Harvest

The Missing Link

Sculptor Sue McGraw from Tacoma, Wash., is working on his creation.

Sculptor Mark Lepir from Quebec is working on her figure, Crazy.

Dream as if you live forever. Live as if you die tomorrow.

the team from the United States completes the details on the sculpture open mind

Sudarsan Pattnaik working hairdo Barack Obama.

Five minutes before the end of the fourth day of the team members «Team Sand Boxers» hurry to finish the figure

The back side of the sculpture Bound

Dan Belcher of St. Louis runs around his sculpture Icarus II

Joris Krivits from the Netherlands presented the sculpture Puzzle

Briton Paul Hoggard made the elephant with the help of technology, which is called soft clutch.

a clown had hair on both sides, but on one side of the bird landed, hit the sand.

Magnetic attraction was created by Fergus Mulvaney of Ireland.

Uldis Zarins from Latvia made this sculpture titled It was a bad dream.

Damon Farmer of Kentucky, made a sculpture The fact that we have to show.

Face sculpture Looking at the negative Wilfred Stigera from the Netherlands is actually concave, not convex, so it seemed highlighted below.

Whirlwind Thomas Koeta from Florida won the first prize in the category of solo .

Joe Heng Tan from Singapore spilled out showering his sculpture with a mixture of water with the glue so that it has not collapsed.

Sculpture The distance gives perspective, won first place in the category of duet .