Carving a 3 footer in a gallery/show – any advice? - Tiki Carving

H hewey Tiki Socialite Sydney, Australia Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 4283	H hewey Posted posted on Wed, Feb 21, 2007 4:57 PM Hey folks. As some of you are aware, I will be carving live at the art gallery show that is accompanying the Australian Street Rod Nationals at Easter. The show is on hot rod/kustom kulture. I plan on having 2 finished tikis displayed (3 if I get time), and I have been asked to carve live in the gallery throughout the show. The show runs from Thursday through to Sunday, but I won’t be in there the whole time! I will be supplied with a 3 foot gum tree log, all debarked and ready to chop into. I was thinking a head only tiki, and design wise something like Aaron Akua’s take on the Hypno-tiki by Sam Gambino. So relatively simple, people won’t want to see me hacking out a full bodied Lono at the stage where it doesn’t look like a tiki. I probably wont finish it at the show, given the sanding thing is pretty boring and the drying time for lacquer. If I finish the main facial elements I will start doing detailed tribal patterns. I would love to hear any feedback from people as to what they think is good/crap when carving live. I cant do some pre-show carving as I will be getting the log when I pu my stuff in the gallery. Kustom Kahoona [ Edited by: hewey 2007-02-21 16:58 ]

Hey folks. As some of you are aware, I will be carving live at the art gallery show that is accompanying the Australian Street Rod Nationals at Easter. The show is on hot rod/kustom kulture. I plan on having 2 finished tikis displayed (3 if I get time), and I have been asked to carve live in the gallery throughout the show. The show runs from Thursday through to Sunday, but I won’t be in there the whole time!

I will be supplied with a 3 foot gum tree log, all debarked and ready to chop into. I was thinking a head only tiki, and design wise something like Aaron Akua’s take on the Hypno-tiki by Sam Gambino. So relatively simple, people won’t want to see me hacking out a full bodied Lono at the stage where it doesn’t look like a tiki. I probably wont finish it at the show, given the sanding thing is pretty boring and the drying time for lacquer. If I finish the main facial elements I will start doing detailed tribal patterns.

I would love to hear any feedback from people as to what they think is good/crap when carving live.

I cant do some pre-show carving as I will be getting the log when I pu my stuff in the gallery.

Kustom Kahoona

[ Edited by: hewey 2007-02-21 16:58 ]

Post #287243 by hewey on Wed, Feb 21, 2007 4:57 PM