Post #220653 by haikai on Tue, Mar 14, 2006 3:06 AM

Aloha,

I have some new pictures for you. In the following photos you can see work steps of my new shrunken head.
It was carved out of a glued piece of balsa wood. For the model I used my first framed shrunken head.
(you can see it on page 2)

When I finished the carving, I started to drill the little holes into the lips and colored the heat with oak color beeswax.
After drying, I flamed the wood and colored it again with the beeswax.

When I fixed the blue laces, I arranged the frame with small bamboo bars and the hanging.
And here is the finished shrunken head in his frame!

And here I finally finished the Aku Aku bowl with his painting.

For this end I used emulsion paint and started to ground it with brown.

After drying the bowl, I dabed with a little bit black above the brown color and following I designed the orange and light brown pattern.

Finally I arranged the white outlines about the pattern and finish-worked it with clear coat.