Post #253450 by GMAN on Sun, Sep 10, 2006 4:05 PM

Paipo - Thanks man. I'm really not stepping it up, I'm just so tool limited. The "Defiance" piece will be finished soon.

Kingstiedye - Thanks for leaving a note. I am just finishing off a list, and I'll be carving for myself for a bit. I'll make sure you are first when I make another list :D

T3 - I hope I never become a "stoner"...I hear it's tough to get in the Union too?

Heath - Thanks! Still much to do...

Pdrake - No books mang; that's not my style. I did a few pieces in bone back when I was in college (late eighties, early nineties) and I learned a bit then. Unfortunatly all my good toolz were sold when my parents sold the country house. I have never replaced them and I have done whatever I could with whatever I had for a while now.

Conga - You bet!

Surfintiki - Thanks! Where you bean? Post that Tang!

Hewey - Thanks for stopping by. I haven't seen a carving from you lately; are you still carving?

Benzo - Thanks for the toolz man. I really appreciate the thought.

And on to more bonz:

I drew this bugger on a slab of bone after looking at a million pics of wall panels and some really cool NZ historical pics of Maori huts and carvings. If you haven't done so, search TC and view the pics posted from the Chicago Museum - I went back to them again today. Anyway, I gave this guy a forked tongue and he'll get dressed up like the bigger Maori some time this week. The bulge at his crotch is supposed to get carved into another face, similar to his. One of my reference pieces (probably 8' tall) had one and I thought I would give it a shot, but that would be one small head! I dunno if I can pull that off.

And here are some bonz and wood pieces I am working on...

Thanks for looking,

Gman

"The saw is family"

[ Edited by: GMAN 2006-09-10 16:10 ]