Zaya's wood burnings, and a couple of new pictures. - Other Crafts

Z Zaya Tiki Socialite San Diego, CA Joined: Jun 06, 2006 Posts: 209	Z Zaya Posted posted on Tue, Jul 4, 2006 7:05 PM Hello Tiki Central! I'd like to officially introduce myself. My name is Christina, but you can call me Zaya. Officially I come from Greek goddess decent, but I love everything tiki as well. I've been an oberserver of Tiki Central for a little while now. I was introduced to it by my boyfriend. You know him as "Bay Park Buzzy"! His amazing talent inspires me every day, and gives me the desire to be creative myself. I'm intrigued by the Maori tattoo designes. I looked around on e-bay and bought a book called "Moki" The Art and History of Maori Tattoing. It has some great pictures of different tattoo patterns. I've been practicing drawing them, and this is what I have so far.... Markings over bridge of nose. Nose tattooing Patterns on noses Patterns on noses A tattooed gourd Over upper lip Spiral on right cheek Chin Patterns Patterns Left half of forehead Buzzy just bought "The Art of Maori Carving", and I'm looking forward to borrowing that, and practicing the designs in there. We saw it mentioned on Davez's thread and he recommended it. I get so much inspiration reading everyone's posts. I see Benzart's amazing maori designs, and am in awe of the precision. I can only dream! I'm also interested in working with bamboo. Buzzy keeps promising to get me that cool woodburner that Benzart has. Come on Buzzy! It will be here before I know it. Otherwise I'll have to take my computer away. Just kidding Buzzy! I've had the pleasure of meeting quite a few people from Tiki Central over the past couple of months. I worked with Buzzy at Tiki Oasis 6, and also this weekend attended OnaTiki's great party. You can see my pictures from there on his party thread. What I've learned from my experiences so far. Trying to draw Maori tattoo designs for the first time isn't as easy as it looks. Trying to draw a pattern on one side and then copying it exactly in the opposite on the other side is even harder. Once you start drawing you just can't stop! Being a supporter of tiki is even more fun when you're creating tiki yourself! It's easy to be inspired when you're with someone that truly loves what he does. That's all for now! Zaya [ Edited by: Zaya 2007-07-17 01:01 ] [ Edited by: Zaya 2008-10-07 12:20 ]

Hello Tiki Central! I'd like to officially introduce myself. My name is Christina, but you can call me Zaya. Officially I come from Greek goddess decent, but I love everything tiki as well. I've been an oberserver of Tiki Central for a little while now. I was introduced to it by my boyfriend. You know him as "Bay Park Buzzy"! His amazing talent inspires me every day, and gives me the desire to be creative myself. I'm intrigued by the Maori tattoo designes. I looked around on e-bay and bought a book called "Moki" The Art and History of Maori Tattoing. It has some great pictures of different tattoo patterns. I've been practicing drawing them, and this is what I have so far....

Markings over bridge of nose.

Nose tattooing

Patterns on noses

Patterns on noses

A tattooed gourd

Over upper lip

Spiral on right cheek

Chin

Patterns

Patterns

Left half of forehead

Buzzy just bought "The Art of Maori Carving", and I'm looking forward to borrowing that, and practicing the designs in there. We saw it mentioned on Davez's thread and he recommended it. I get so much inspiration reading everyone's posts. I see Benzart's amazing maori designs, and am in awe of the precision. I can only dream! I'm also interested in working with bamboo. Buzzy keeps promising to get me that cool woodburner that Benzart has. Come on Buzzy! It will be here before I know it. Otherwise I'll have to take my computer away. Just kidding Buzzy!

I've had the pleasure of meeting quite a few people from Tiki Central over the past couple of months. I worked with Buzzy at Tiki Oasis 6, and also this weekend attended OnaTiki's great party. You can see my pictures from there on his party thread.

What I've learned from my experiences so far.

Trying to draw Maori tattoo designs for the first time isn't as easy as it looks.
Trying to draw a pattern on one side and then copying it exactly in the opposite on the other side is even harder.
Once you start drawing you just can't stop!
Being a supporter of tiki is even more fun when you're creating tiki yourself!
It's easy to be inspired when you're with someone that truly loves what he does.

That's all for now!

Zaya

[ Edited by: Zaya 2007-07-17 01:01 ]

[ Edited by: Zaya 2008-10-07 12:20 ]

Post #241034 by Zaya on Tue, Jul 4, 2006 7:05 PM