Beth Bays of Huddleston, Virginia, was asked to enter a hay bale art competition some years ago. It turned out to be so fun that she continued making hay bale sculptures each year, even after the competition was no more. It's become a local tradition to take one's family out to her farm to get a holiday photo with her annual creation. This year, she made a 15-foot-tall Willie Nelson!
Bays said Will-Hay Nelson was easier to assemble than some of her past sculptures but was more difficult in terms of details.
“The basic shape was easy and only took three bales to do,” Bays said. “However, there was a lot of detail work with sculpting the arms out of chicken wire and making the guitar from a huge piece of Styrofoam I came across a few years ago and saved in my barn. I also had to make a nose out of chicken wire because Willie has a very prominent nose and I wanted to get that right.”
She got it right, and Nelson even posted a link to the sculpture's video on Facebook, as you can see above. Read more about Bays and her hay sculptures at the News & Advance. -via Boing Boing