TikiMango's Carvings- P31, Bone Hawaiian Tapa Hook - Tiki Carving

T TikiMango Member Satellite Beach, FL Joined: Jun 17, 2008 Posts: 798	T TikiMango Posted posted on Mon, Jun 8, 2009 8:51 AM Wow, what a busy week for me. I had friends drop-in from Kentucky, Alaska and Japan, some that I haven't seen in 15yrs. I guess June is the vacation month. It's really cool to be able to talk with old friends like you just saw them yesterday. All the "make nice" with old friends didn't leave me any time to be creatively productive, but I did manage to finish up the Manaia from the progress pictures. This piece is by far my largest one, measures 4.38" long by 1.5" wide. I thought by making it large I could put more detail in, but it just means more surface area to smooth. I think I need to start going a bit smaller than this. Probably not as small as others would go, but smaller still. I tried getting different heights going on this piece, probably too subtle. I would also like to know how you guys get your eyes so dang round and symmetric?

Wow, what a busy week for me. I had friends drop-in from Kentucky, Alaska and Japan, some that I haven't seen in 15yrs. I guess June is the vacation month. It's really cool to be able to talk with old friends like you just saw them yesterday. All the "make nice" with old friends didn't leave me any time to be creatively productive, but I did manage to finish up the Manaia from the progress pictures.

This piece is by far my largest one, measures 4.38" long by 1.5" wide. I thought by making it large I could put more detail in, but it just means more surface area to smooth.

I think I need to start going a bit smaller than this. Probably not as small as others would go, but smaller still.

I tried getting different heights going on this piece, probably too subtle. I would also like to know how you guys get your eyes so dang round and symmetric?

Post #460086 by TikiMango on Mon, Jun 8, 2009 8:51 AM