Post #420582 by haikai on Mon, Nov 24, 2008 7:05 AM

Aloha,

thank you all so much for your entries and your kind words and all your congratulations. I´m so happy that I can give pleasure with my pictures.
Yes, the big carving jobs are always great and a big spectacle. Many viewers were really impressed, while I was carving live.
I think it is a great chance to show the people how many time and effort it needs to create a tiki.
Than they understand why it is artand not cheap to make.

But I have also done some other jobs. I created some new paper-mâché masks and carved some smaller tikis.
However first I will answer your questions.

Benzart, yes it´s right, next week I will be in Miami for Harold Golen´s Kaiju art show and we like
to visit the Maikai at the 4rd December. If somebody like to have a cocktail with us, please come.
AlohaStation and Loki will also be there. In one of the next posts, I will show some pictures of my work.

GROG, I try to work careful and compare often the proportion and the distance between the lines.
For the finish I use a angle grinder to get clean lines. That´s all!

AlohaStation, what will be our first drink next week? I am looking forward to order a Black Magic at the happyhour.
Hmmmm...

crazy al, I hope we will have no unforeseen occurrence and arrive just in time to Miami with our Kon-Tiki Boat.
I heard there is sometimes a crazy pirate, sailing on a beach ball and always like to fight. :)
Cannonball!!!

congatiki, yes a TC Bandwagon would be cool! We could make all togehter a big carver tour and preaching the word of Tiki. :)
Who will be the busdriver?

Lake Surfer, yes that was a great party on the beach. Great that we met us there. We have to do it again!

Clarita, yes you are right! Fun is very important to work creativ. I made also other experience and
so I try to be careful not to overwork myself and losing the fun.
I think if you have no fun, you couldn´t work very creativ and you will not be happy with your finished work.

marcus thorn, I saw your last pictures at TC. Wow, your last work is highclass with all the textures.
I would also like to start such a piece. I have a really big and heavy oak log, but if I start with it,
it also means a lots of hours in the cold garage. Brrrr... Last Friday we got the first snow this year!

Okey, now here are some new pictures.
They are not so spectacular like the big tikis but I hope you like them also. Please if anybody have
a tip for me or think I could make something better, please feel free and talk to me.

Here you can see the masks I made for our decoration inventory. They are all out of polystyrene and paper-mâché.
It´s great to use them for decoration jobs, because they are very light and easy to transport.
In the background you can see the first mask I created 2 years ago. A big PNG Trader Vics mask.

The next Tiki is well known! You all know the original. I carved the Tiki for an Tattoo shop in Nürnberg.
I finished it last week.

This is my finished Ku. I started to carve this Tiki a long time ago. I think it was in the beginning
of this year. In August I hand it over to his owner and he gave him a clean grinding and some wax.
I´ll try to get som pics of the current status.

The Tiki is out of cherry wood and about 25 iches high.

This is my first Tiki, which is standing in France in a pine forest near the atlantic ocean.
I used oak wood and a high-grade steel pole to fix it.

The pole is under the old strings, which I found at the beach.

Thats the Mai-Tai I enjoyed after wook! Cheers :drink:

The Beach...

and my first try to carve in sand. The Moai is waching over the sea. Perhaps into the direction
of the Maikai :)

Captain Crab is planing to build a float.

Ahoi!