Post #371657 by Paipo on Fri, Apr 4, 2008 5:47 PM

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:o :o :o

WOW. That is possibly the greatest Maori carving I've ever seen (and I've seen plenty, believe me!). I particularly like the gremlin/rapetiki formed thus:

I have dabbled with the idea of something along these lines (what I like to call the "Ruzic Tiki") - in fact I drew up a piece a loooong time back and promptly put it away, realising it was well beyond my patience and ability at the time:

I must have been on something really good when I had at this stone with the pencil and pen. In fact, I was so intimidated by it , it took me ages to find it in my workshop just now and I needed to reink the lines as they'd faded away.

Anyway, challenge accepted! (sort of...) I've been thinking of making some bigger and better greywacke sculptures seeing the jade cobbles have been well received. The rub is that there's a lot of time and patience invested in the bigger works (ie risk), and I wouldn't dream of attempting something of this complexity in pounamu! (Tama?!? :wink: )

[ Edited by: Paipo 2008-04-04 17:50 ]