Post #249622 by haikai on Fri, Aug 18, 2006 7:41 AM

Aloha everyone!

Thank you very much, tiki5-0! :)

Finally, I have finished the bloom crown Tiki and shot some progress pictures for you guys.
In the last two weeks I also started with a new carving projekt, which you can see in the following pictures.

On with the show!
First, I finished the white coloring for the frets.
For the color I used a litte bit acrylic, chalk powder and water and mixed it well again.

Than I damped the white parts with a little bit ash pouder.
So the contrast is not so hard and the Tiki looks a little bit older.

After that, I polished the whole figure with wood wax. For this I used an old cloth.
So, I fixed the ash and the colors definitely and the wood got a little bit greasy.

Here you can see the Tiki´s back with all his different curls and frets.

And here is the fearsome, finished bloom crown Tiki!

So and now let me show you the pictures of my last projekt.

I started two weeks ago to carve this little Tekoteko. I have seen so many amazing Maori figures on TC,
so that I had to carve one myself. Especially, I was inspirational of Benzart`s, Gman´s and Marcus Thorn´s pictures.
And so these next pictures are for you guys, thanks!

It´s 8/7 inches tall and carved from basswood. That was my first try to carve a smaller Tiki with this kind of wood.
It worked brilliant!

First I drafted and carved out the basic form of the figure.

Than I formed out the roundings of the feets and the upper part of the body.

After I have worked out the Tiki´s body, I´ve abrade his head and started with the first details.

At last I figured out the eyes.

Here I drafted the little fellow´s frets and tattoos. I graved them with a little cutter.
Oh dear, it was not realy easy to hold my hands still.

Attention, he can bite!

I sandpapered the Tiki and colored him twice with teak glaze.

When the wood was dry, i polished it very good. So it got sleek.

Ahhhh, a new god was born! Here you can see the finished Tekoteko.

Thank you all and mahalo, Kai