Post #160341 by Aaron's Akua on Fri, May 20, 2005 10:43 AM

Here's some more ongoing work shots.

I've made some small progress on Hypno-Leroy, but also decided to add a little more detail. Hopefully he'll be all detailed, sanded, and ready for finishing in a week or so.

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Got all the line art laid down for a couple more projects that I'll start as soon as Will's cyclops tiki is done. Here's Lono.

Most of these lines will disappear once I start carving, but I just wanted to see how it would look. This is my first full body tiki, and I gotta tell you, it's already screwing with my head. So many angles to figure out - much harder than a stand-alone tiki head. I think I'll get rid of the extra wood on the sides first, then try to figure out the side view. If anyone has any thoughts on carving full body tikis, I'd love to hear them.

Sam Gambino already gave me the go ahead to carve an exact replica of his painting if I want. It just so happened that Will gave me a mask blank cut from the side of a redwood log. So one thing led to another, and now I've got Sam's painting all laid out for a 3-D copy.

The front of the mask is all white sapwood, but turn it around and you can see the beautiful heartwood on the inside. The trick will be to dig down deep enough to show the heartwood through the cut features on the front. Similar to the way Will does his, but I'm trying to apply my own style here, whatever that is.

More pics to come as they progress. Thanks for looking and for all the great TC feedback.

**Cheers!

A-A**

"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."
-Pablo Picasso

[ Edited by: Aaron's Akua 2006-10-25 12:48 ]