Paipo's Stone Tikis - 1st Thread - Jun 06 - May 08 - Tiki Carving

P Paipo Member Aotearoa / NZ Joined: Jun 22, 2006 Posts: 1886	P Paipo Posted posted on Sat, May 26, 2007 4:20 PM On 2007-05-25 18:46, Benzart wrote: Paipo, What Lit your Fire? I'm not sure what it is - I'm just going with it! I think it's having to make stuff I wan't so excited by for so long, and now the shackles are off I'm feeling motivated and the creative juice (slime?) is flowing. Anyways, thanks KAIMUKI(my Bumatay brother), congatiki, Reid and the lovely Clarita.... On 2007-05-26 15:04, Big Hodad-dy Reid wrote: Hey, just out of curiosity, why the change from the drawing on the center of the head to the finished version? Looks great either way, just wondering why the change. I have an unusual (to some maybe) way of working...I draw on just enough usually to get the form roughed out, then work out the details as I go depending on how things are looking. I will add details onto the stone, see if they're working, then change my mind and erase them again. I did "reverse design" this one by taking a sketch from my drawn-up stone, then working that into a detailed drawing for my book (as I'm planning more in this series), but in general 80-90% of these tikis never appear on paper. In this case I wanted a consistent look of simple overlapping scales/plates, and I thought the original headdress made the head too busy in relation to the body. Kinny,I hope Brad digs it - I avoided looking at his interpretation while I was working on this, but in the end it has quite a few similarities. Seems like Bumatay/Fish tikis are all the rage! Now if I could just get one of those vintage fish-footed bowls.... PS: I just realised something. Here is my first "creature" inspired piece from last year... so if you bred him with this (forgive the mental image): You'd probably end up with something like this! \| [ Edited by: Paipo 2007-05-27 04:10 ] [ Edited by: Paipo 2007-06-06 15:01 ]

On 2007-05-25 18:46, Benzart wrote:
Paipo, What Lit your Fire?

I'm not sure what it is - I'm just going with it! I think it's having to make stuff I wan't so excited by for so long, and now the shackles are off I'm feeling motivated and the creative juice (slime?) is flowing.

Anyways, thanks KAIMUKI(my Bumatay brother), congatiki, Reid and the lovely Clarita....

On 2007-05-26 15:04, Big Hodad-dy Reid wrote:
Hey, just out of curiosity, why the change from the drawing on the center of the head to the finished version? Looks great either way, just wondering why the change.

I have an unusual (to some maybe) way of working...I draw on just enough usually to get the form roughed out, then work out the details as I go depending on how things are looking. I will add details onto the stone, see if they're working, then change my mind and erase them again.
I did "reverse design" this one by taking a sketch from my drawn-up stone, then working that into a detailed drawing for my book (as I'm planning more in this series), but in general 80-90% of these tikis never appear on paper. In this case I wanted a consistent look of simple overlapping scales/plates, and I thought the original headdress made the head too busy in relation to the body.

Kinny,I hope Brad digs it - I avoided looking at his interpretation while I was working on this, but in the end it has quite a few similarities. Seems like Bumatay/Fish tikis are all the rage! Now if I could just get one of those vintage fish-footed bowls....

PS: I just realised something. Here is my first "creature" inspired piece from last year...

so if you bred him with this (forgive the mental image):

You'd probably end up with something like this!

[ Edited by: Paipo 2007-05-27 04:10 ]

[ Edited by: Paipo 2007-06-06 15:01 ]

Post #309159 by Paipo on Sat, May 26, 2007 4:20 PM