Post #363572 by Cammo on Tue, Feb 26, 2008 10:39 AM

I don't want to keep invading Buzzy's thread with my attempts at carving, so here's Cammo's Corner, where everybody is welcome and every day is Carving Day!

(That means YOU should be carving, not me, I can only grab an hour or two a week to do this stuff...)

Here's the first stages of my "Danger Mask" - designed after the early days of Tiki collecting, 1907-1935, when Man Ray started photographing 'em and Paris galleries were going crazy over the new Tribal/Tiki look.

So this is sort of a Melanesian/Fang/Streamliner 30's mask.

Paper drawings, I blew this up to a big sheet at Kinko's -

The mask, carved and stained, but the face is just starting to emerge.

This sucker is big, you can see my heel to the left.

Details -

It's stained with English Chestnut, two heavy coats. I plan to carve in the face, then sand off some of the stain to give it an eged look.

This idea of staining first, carving last is interesting...

Laytah!

[ Edited by: Cammo 2009-05-16 11:00 ]