Post #370380 by Cammo on Mon, Mar 31, 2008 7:36 AM

So here's the ZorMok "progress". I've been letting the lips dry for like 3 friggin' days. It's been driving me nutz because I really wanna carve this thing but I stained the lips and poly'd them, and gotta carve the face out around and up to the eyes. Finally the lips dried and I did this;

This looks simple but this was the hardest thing I've carved yet. All chisel and hand sanding, Buzzy lent me some really small "U" chisels to get the channel.

Now I'm gonna poly the dark areas, let 'em dry for another few days and carve into them. The face is loosely defined now, but I'll go at that outside edge veeery carefully.

Hey, did anybody know that Paul Gauguin was a killer carver???? I'm not even gonna editorialize on this stuff, just check it out!

Bronze;

Sorry, I gotta editorialize. Look at this one - it looks exactly like a 19th century Puck cartoon, but carved! The whole thing balances on those two little teeny ankles!

And look at how modern these are - they look like carved panels from the Royal Hawaiian. These were hung around Paul's front door. They freak me out, they're really stylized, man this guy was good.