Tiki Central / Tiki Carving / Polynesiac Carving a Tiki for GEICO on SUNDANCE!! Pg 7
Post #437634 by Polynesiac on Tue, Mar 3, 2009 4:26 PM
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Thanks Scott! sorry it took me over a year to respond to you.... Here's a few things I've been carving: a 3 foot Tangaroa:
a 4 Foot marquesian:
some detail shots. The little squishy skull:
design carvings:
3.5 footer, "Kaleki" which translates to Grace - the last name of the customer. It was a gift by his children, to remind him of his heritage on Hawaii:
a 4 Foot Hawaiian:
A pendant that I cast and use in our summer classes at the Aquarium. We discuss a little about navigation and talk about how people found their way around before GPS. This, of course, leads to TIKI PAINTING! We take the cast and paint it up! (this summer we are going to use that crayola clay and sculpt our own tikis!):
A little beachcomberish lamp. I've made a few of these already. I've had good response so far:
WOAHAOAH!??!?!? BABY TANG is DONE!!!! Now, the idea was to make a mold and cast a bunch of them and make lamps and stuff from them. That never happened. I totally screwed up the molding process TWICE and during the second round of cleaning the little guy, I just gave up the idea. Hell, I'll just carve another. At some point. It may take a while, though:
And here is the new thing I got going on. I'm doing a series I call "RESPECT" - where I pay homage to the carvers of the 50's and 60's that have helped to inspire this tiki resurrection. I'm using construction waste wood for the basis of all these carvings. I've decided that I'm going to try and not pay for any more wood (!) (like for signs and 4x4 carvings - palm is always free) but only use wood I find from construction sites, the beach, etc. Anyway, here is the first one (still in progress):
Can you guess which carver I decided to pay homage to first? That's it for now! thanks for stopping by and looking!!!!
[ Edited by: Polynesiac 2009-03-03 16:30 ] |
