Post #414993 by MadDogMike on Thu, Oct 23, 2008 8:05 AM

Inspired by my Hawaiian mythology research and encouraged by Squid's "Luau Pig" mug, one of my future projects will be a mug of Kamapua'a, the wild boar god. So I did a little study to prepare for it- a Kamapua'a kiln plug. He's made out a brown clay that I haven't tried firing yet so I don't know what color he will be. I'm hoping to just glaze his tusks and eyes, leaving everything else natural brown (maybe a matte black wash to accentuate the texturing) I used a mini clay extruder to make the hair on top, we'll see if it survives.

The other Kamapua'a study is the ceramic boar tusks on the left in the first picture. I haven't done any macrame since the 70's (groovy!) but I'm going to attempt a cheap knock-off of PakoloLolita's awesome boar tusk pendants. These tusks are pulled from clay and have a triangular cross-section like real tusks, they are 4 1/2 inches point-to-point.