Post #479449 by PutiTiki on Tue, Aug 25, 2009 9:23 PM

Well, as promised I finished Tiki #2. Overall, extremely happy with my results. I managed to get my first head dress finished which I free-handed on the fly since my original plans went out the window when I took a large chunk off his back. I look at tikis all over this website and love certain features in each and tried to incorporate a few of those on this piece: 1) Had to have a skull = BADA$$ 2) The criss-cross "face mask" of Tiki God Kane 3) Deep cuts in the mouth 4) Full 3-D Body. As far as the stain, it did not turn out how I liked. I was so happy to finish carving/sanding that I had to stain it before another day passed so I did so in poor lighting and put the stain on wayyyyy to thick. I'm currently deciding whether to sand the entire thing and leave the dark stain in all the crevices and inlays then go over with a lighter stain or just leave it as is and move onto #3......

Thanks for checking in.