Post #318878 by Tamapoutini on Mon, Jul 16, 2007 1:55 AM

Thanks everyone. Just stopping by, nothing to show today.

Benj: Those three have 'that' look about them due the natural beach-tumbled surface; almost impossible to recreate (or fix). For this reason I have to be really careful not to slip and scratch the surface while 'scarfing'. So they take a really long time & I have to be really careful. You see why the alteration is deliberately kept to a minimum - this is one of the amazingly clever things about neolithic Maori jade work; they became expert at minimising/abstracting their designs to achieve maximum result with minimum effort. Working this very, very hard stone with tools of softer stone takes an eternity and you dont want to be making any unecessary work for yourself. :)

G: You guessed it! Big 'Tangs' FBalls!!

BenZ: I will flick piccies of the gallery work once its done (might wait until show is running actually..). Its looking like there will be a fair amount of tiki-stuff (yay!). My first move was to dig out all of the finished or nearly-finished work I could find around the workshop and attempt to find an overall direction or flavour to it all.. No joy; it was an obviously 'misc' group of differing stonetypes and styles. Ive kept a few pieces in, will be recycling some work from quite a few years ago, and am working on about a dozen new pieces to tie it all together, gulp.. I know Im going a bit overboard with it (this particular venue & time of year are pretty quiet) but dont like to do a half-hearted job of anything. Stay tuned.

Timid: see above. Balls, out... :wink:

FreddieBalls: :D :D :D

LLT: You da Man! Sad to say I find myself catching up rather than keeping up with your work. Dere just aint enough hours in da day Mon. Thanks for your compliments, but dude, you create 50 little 'personalities' to each one of mine. I wish I was you. :lol:

Create, my slaves..! :lol: :lol: :lol:

TamaTheTerrible