Post #352280 by tok-tok on Tue, Jan 1, 2008 9:21 AM

A happy new year to you all.

Thanks to AKUAE, benella, GMAN and seeksurf for their kind and encouraging words.

So, you see, I was busy over the christmas holidays because of my deadline for the party-decoration. But I managed to finish the two guys right in time. It took lot of extra time in the evenings and till late at night but I made it. I even did some columns and two platforms to lift them a bit on and in front of the stage. I ws a bit stressful but in the end good fun.

Let´s have a look and the rest of the progress-pics and at the results.

This is the Skull-holder right after the staining, you can notice the wet edges. Till then, I was not sure , what to take for the base so I left it as it was.

The maquesan was kind of hard to figure out, first I thought, that was going to be easy if I do it in a comic style, I really like the style that 4wdtiki used on his big ones. But then I turned my conceration on some traditional designs which I looked up in reference books and googled after.

Here is a copy of something google said was a maquesan pattern. Well, I was not sure, but tried to transfer it as a part of the headdress on the back of the head.


Afterwards I thought, I could have finished the guy much earlier if I had left it as it was, but drawn is drawn. And even when you use a marker for it instead of a pencil.

I also mangaged to carve out something like ears (my first ears), the design was slightly adopted from an old picture out of my books.

More details to the nose and eyes.

Then came the stain, some kind of darkred, alcoholbased, made by clouth. The color has no name only a number, 52...something, I have to look this up again to tell you.


I carved some marquesan tattoo-designs too, as you can see.

The black parts are half stained, half burned. I am very pleased withe the results.

After that i painted the carved tattoos in a combination of beige and yellow acrylic to get more sharpness in and polished the marq with some liquid wax.





It looks now, as it has really aged.

The skull-holder was stained in two tones, but I addtionally sanded the brighter areas to let it look older to and to get a bigger difference between the colors. The base was stained in deep black.



The skull turned out to be very fine. I think I carve one separately one day.

Closer.

And even a bit closer.

By the way, the collumns are made of spruce planks which are only burned and waxed.
I screwed the underneath the bases to prevent both from falling down.


Here is one last one with the birthday boy to the right. He has allready turned fourty by now.

The platforms are made of stacked palettes with some bamboo fencing wrapped around.

Next time I show you some party-pics when I have sorted them.

Many mahalos, tok-tok