Post #454015 by Polynesiac on Thu, May 14, 2009 6:33 PM

Surf and LLT - thank you both very much for your posts. Sorry about the delayed response...

The Aquarium where I work has been asking me to donate a carving for their annual fundraiser "the Grand Grunion Gala" for a few years. I was never able to pull something together in a timely enough fashion, until this year. INstead of carving a south pacific piece, I decided to really challenge myself and head North for inspiration. Because it's an auction piece for the aquarium, the overt ocean theme made sense, so I looked to the Haida and their superb renditions of the orca.
I found a really nice carving from black slate to model my carving from.

I know it's not tiki, but I thought I'd share it anyway. It's obvious that all pacific art is related in some fashion. Even the carvers in the North Pacific know that. Here are some pictures. I hope you enjoy them:

the carving all finished waiting for stain and paint:

All freshly painted, but it still needs to look "old"

Detail closeup:

Finished carving, all weathered and aged with a coconut fiber rope boarder:

The back of the carving with a little info about the carving and the subject matter:

Thanks for looking!

Polynesiac - putting the "F" back in "ART"

[ Edited by: polynesiac 2009-05-15 07:12 ]