El Carnero De Colores (ie Colorful Ram) is a collaborative piece by artists Floyd Archuleta, Twilight Kallisti and Abigail Z.

Floyd built the lifesize sculpture out of recycled wire, rebar, fence posts and a real ram skull. Abbey knit and crocheted most of the squares. I made additional squares, the face, hooves, tail and assembled the fiber pieces over the wire base.

Abbey said she wanted the ram to look like a cross between Day of the Dead decorations and a New Mexican cemetery. I think we captured the look.

Pictures of the wire sculpture can be seen here. Progress pics can be seen here and here.

The face, tail and hooves are a “normal” ram color. The normal colors turn brighter up the legs and then bursts into the technicolor fleece.

Abbey said we should get some sort of ribbon for our efforts so she knit the ram a bouquet of roses as a prize.

The ram’s colorful fleece is blooming with bright flowers.

El Carnero De Colores is currently on display at Village Wools.

Here’s a picture of him in transit. It was a little tricky but we managed to fit him into the car.

The dimensions are 41 1/2″ H x 23″ W x 56″ L