Post #273355 by Bay Park Buzzy on Mon, Dec 18, 2006 12:41 PM

Yo G. Were you talking the little open mouth guy or the big open mouth guy? As far as the fingers/toes, I've been examining older and reputable hawaiian styled carvings lately. I'm looking at how others aproached the arms and such, and have seen many claw or bulky arms with no finger detail. Just decided that that was how it was to be done on this one. Also, I was reading an old oceanic arts text from the sixties, and it mentioned that the Hawaiian styles were typified by simplified "pendulum arms." That phrase stuck in my head, and I am just trying to make pendulum arms. It's all practice...
(I'm honestly just throwing different shit on these and seeing how it looks when it is done. Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't... :) )

Here's last night's post Dexter project:

Little 4" basswood marq...

It's a nice day today, everything is dry, i'm thinking I should go out and work on the big guy today.

Here are the final pictures of the little rat:





I used cherry stain
and wiped it off in places to create the highlights in certain spots. Then I used a rub on polishing compound.

Oh yeah GMAN, I didn't see the Fat bastard when I made it, but now I do. I just thought he was tweaking his nipples. Thanks for pointing it out. I did have a comeback in case someone mentioned that I cut too much off.
" He don't care, He's so fat that he hasn't seen it in years anyway. Wouldn't even know it was missing, that guy!"

You guys all take care, I'm going to have an ice cold Wild Cherry Pepsi, walk around my estate, and carve something.

Buzzy Out!