Buzzy's work: Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate - Tiki Carving

BPB Bay Park Buzzy Tiki Socialite West Bay Park, San Diego, CA Joined: Apr 07, 2006 Posts: 3066	BPB Bay Park Buzzy Posted posted on Thu, Jun 29, 2006 9:16 PM Tiki #25 Around Christmas time, I went to Costco and saw several books that I wanted. At the time, I had no extra money to spend on myself that shopping trip. When I went back a couple days later, all of the books that I wanted were sold out already. I settled for a book of asian art. I looked at that book for a couple of weeks and spent some time drawing out some common asian motifs and styles. It was during this time that I started this tiki, #25, back in February of 2006. I wanted to see if i could make a tiki that appeared Asian. I used a mexican fan palm, a little over two feet tall. This was a very hard and dense log. This was the first of this constitution that I carved of this log variety. I like this type of fan palm most of all. It's hard and slower going, but it holds detail well and almost never has cracks. I think it came from way down on a very tall and skinny tree that was very old. Here it is drawn out my drawing of the tikis at this stage were still very tight and exact. Nearly every single detail is drawn before I start carving any of it. It is almost as though I have carved it in my head before I ever actually carve it with my hands. the first cut I make is with a chainsaw. I take it back exactly how deep I want the mouth to be. Mouth carved to depth-I just chisel it out to the chainsaw cut Face definition carved next Neck/chest next crown details started Next day:I had to carve away the drawn out teeth. Since they were exactly how they should have been, I placed small marks where the tooth hits the lip tp keep the teeth correct Face basically finished Now I just keep working my way down. I vowed to make up a body from my head and not use anything for reference This kind of carving is much easier with gouges. Too bad I still didn't have any yet. I look back at some of my "old" stuff and am surprised at how difficult it was to do some of it with the tools that I had. I'm getting spoiled now Almost done finished finished it with an amber shellac I love this grain This was the last small log I would do for some time. I did about ten small ones in a row and was ready for larger work. I can't wait to catch up with what I'm doing now. Only about twelve or so to go...

Tiki #25
Around Christmas time, I went to Costco and saw several books that I wanted. At the time, I had no extra money to spend on myself that shopping trip. When I went back a couple days later, all of the books that I wanted were sold out already. I settled for a book of asian art. I looked at that book for a couple of weeks and spent some time drawing out some common asian motifs and styles. It was during this time that I started this tiki, #25, back in February of 2006. I wanted to see if i could make a tiki that appeared Asian.
I used a mexican fan palm, a little over two feet tall. This was a very hard and dense log. This was the first of this constitution that I carved of this log variety. I like this type of fan palm most of all. It's hard and slower going, but it holds detail well and almost never has cracks. I think it came from way down on a very tall and skinny tree that was very old.
Here it is drawn out

my drawing of the tikis at this stage were still very tight and exact.

Nearly every single detail is drawn before I start carving any of it. It is almost as though I have carved it in my head before I ever actually carve it with my hands. the first cut I make is with a chainsaw. I take it back exactly how deep I want the mouth to be.

Mouth carved to depth-I just chisel it out to the chainsaw cut

Face definition carved next

Neck/chest next

crown details started

Next day:I had to carve away the drawn out teeth. Since they were exactly how they should have been, I placed small marks where the tooth hits the lip tp keep the teeth correct

Face basically finished

Now I just keep working my way down. I vowed to make up a body from my head and not use anything for reference

This kind of carving is much easier with gouges. Too bad I still didn't have any yet. I look back at some of my "old" stuff and am surprised at how difficult it was to do some of it with the tools that I had. I'm getting spoiled now

Almost done

finished

finished it with an amber shellac

I love this grain

This was the last small log I would do for some time. I did about ten small ones in a row and was ready for larger work.
I can't wait to catch up with what I'm doing now. Only about twelve or so to go...

Post #240435 by Bay Park Buzzy on Thu, Jun 29, 2006 9:16 PM