Post #245493 by haikai on Fri, Jul 28, 2006 11:56 AM

Aloha friends of the Tiki tribe,

surf-n-turf, thank you for looking on my contribution. You are right, when I carve the little Tiki pendants for a few time,
I get the appetite to try out things with the chain saw and big logs.
From the tiniest to the tallset! It makes me lots of fun to work with different sizes and tools.
Every size has his gain, the big ones are realy impressive and the small once are not so heavy to transport.

Tiki Duddy, thanks for the nice words in your post! I have seen your first 2 cool Tikis on TC.
Break a leg, for your craver growth. Try it again and again and you will find out which tools you must use.
And so you will catch me up very quickly. I´m looking forward to see your next Tiki!

Hey rodeotiki, thank you very much! I try to do my best! :drink:

Ben, thanks for visiting my thread! I think like you, the best part of the Tiki ist his headdress.
I started with these part and I realy enjoyed it to figure out the rolling forms.
This was the main inspiration for creating this figure. I have seen the curls of your Mahogany lono
and so I want to try out more finer frets. At this time, thanks for posting your pictures.

It´s great, you want to try out the same color technique with the red-brick.
But watch out and be careful when you´ll use it. I find out, that the red color worked very well
on the clear natural wood. You must squelch the powder very fine and mix it well with the oil.
While I was painting the bloom crown Tiki I find out, that the red color don´t cover realy good.
The black ash grounding I used was to dark for the red selection.
Good luck for the maori´s coloring. I´m looking forward to admire some pictures.

Hey JohnnyP, thanks for posting! I think like you, it´s a great kind to color wood in a natural style.
The art of PNG and also of other natives, inspired me to mix colors this way.
Using the nature and make colores out of stones, terra and plants.
I don´t want to use any kind of clear coat.
My vision was to create a mystic god, who looks like an old one, which standing for a long time on a forbidden paradise.
Now I hope I´ll succeed the god´s finsh well!

Thank you all and mahalo, Kai

O.K. In the last two days I tryed out a lot and made the first coloring tests.
At first I put the raw carved Tiki and gave him a black grounding.
For this purpose I mixed the ash powder with a little bit rape oil and coated it with a brush.

After the black color was dry, I used these tools for polishing.

I was very surprised how gread it worked. The wood´s grain came out and the color realy drawn-in.
Now, when you touch the figure you don´t have dark fingers.

After I finshed the grounding, I mixed the red-brick powder with oil and started to paint the Tiki´s life-threatening eyes.

His crown, I wanted to dye just soft and so it got a little shading. But here I had my first problem!
After painting I find out, that the the red color don´t cover realy good.
The black ash grounding I used was to dark for the red selection.
You could levigate the red parts very easy.

So, I mixed the red-brick powder with a litle bit acrylic, chalk powder and water.
Now the color worked out better and became besides more intensive. Next try!

I used this color for the hole figure to highlight a lots of interesting parts.
But for the most selection I used it just a little. I don´t want surfaces, but rather more shading in his face.

For the white color I used a litte bit acrylic, chalk powder and water.

I mixed it well and painted with it the Tiki´s teeth and his pattern.
It worked very great and the color completely moved into the wood. I think it´s a litte bit too bright
and so I will attenuate the white parts with a little bit ash pouder.
I´m not finsh with the white parts, yet

At these pictures you can see, how the Tiki looks now.
To fix the colors definitely, I have bought a wood wax and so I will polishing the god for the finish.

Next Week I will post the last pictures of the dangerous bloom crown got.
Look out and have a nice weekend!

Mahalo, Kai