Post #365494 by greentikipat on Fri, Mar 7, 2008 11:12 PM

daamn Tama- thanks for the great reply! i can't believe i missed that (what seems like years ago) -so much great advise! i think i will get some other samples and give it a shot. though at my current crawl could take a while. thanks again. mahalo much!

so aloha everyone! i've missed this place. no good excuse- just a good mix of life and laziness. know how life can get in the way of things, yea? sometimes for me it lasts a while. and laziness- well you may know about that too.
so anyway- here's some pics of my latest (and only since the last i posted) of my next wood carving. a little marquesian headhunter who likes to get close with his trophies. he's almost 15". oak i think, and will have some accessories. carved shell earrings, a topknot of my old hair that will be held by his teeth(passing through the middle and exiting from the side.) i originally wanted to free up the skull, but the sockets and hands sharing the same space made it imposable. plus the wrists would have been too weak. aside from the chin, hands, and , um, bottom, the skull is carved fully around. my intention was to be able to pull on the end of the lock of hair and make the skull bob up and down. inspired by some of Paipo's works. oh well, the subtlety is still intact.
i'm not really sick or anything, well,..maybe just my sense of humor. i'm really a stand up guy. honest.





i'm going to download some pics i just took and post in a moment. he's come a bit further along.