Post #482837 by Kino on Fri, Sep 11, 2009 11:17 AM

Aloha All,
Its been a while and I finally got some time to test out some new ( to me )
techniques.

Basically, I took an older TIKI I had and added a little more detail and put a headress on him. I call him Winker.
When I was originally carving him I messed up one of his eyes , so I just let him talk to me and this is what he said.
I know the symetry is poor and there are a lot of mistakes on him.
This is because I was testing out some different things.
I learned that when you dont have a smooth surface to stain, it doesnt work to well.
Speaking of stain, Winker is real dark cuz I just used some stain I had sitting in my shop. I did buy some other colors and will be experimenting more.

Any way here are the before and after pictures.
Enjoy

Here he is before the remodel. Originally I did no sketching on the log,
just freehanding it.

here is the remodeled Winker

The logo on the back is my signature (initials)
I will be creating a new and smaller signature in the future.