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T tobunga Tiki Socialite Joined: Apr 12, 2008 Posts: 1235	T tobunga Posted posted on Sun, Feb 28, 2010 1:12 PM Mahalo Liz! So glad you like my work! Hey, see if you can get your co-workers to buy some of it! Hee hee! Doug- Great praise from a GREAT artist! Mahalo! TikiG- That was one fun and productive chop! Let's do it again soon! beadtiki- glad my work feels like it would be at home in a vintage home tiki bar... although wheels on a swivel bar stool seems kinds dangerous! Kinny, you my friend, are the inspiration! So in keeping with my trying to post at least once a month, here goes for February... short month, so I didn't finish a lot of stuff... You may have seen by now the tiki I made out of Cheetos Snacks... I posted it in a thread about the event on the 3rd St. Promenade in Santa Monica where it was on display. Here's the tiki near completion. it's 32" high and 14" wide, made from a paste of Cheetos, water, and tissue paper... yummy! Me and my Cheetos tiki. The mighty Cheetos Snacks Tiki!!! It took about 5 hours of messy, sticky sculpting to complete, then I had to dry for a couple of days. I wasn't sure if it would dry in time, so I put it in the oven at a low heat for a couple of hours. It was too big to fit inside the oven completely, so I constructed a makeshift box out of aluminum foil lined wood panels around the open door of the oven... and it actually worked! The videos with the Cheetos Tiki I did have been posted, check 'em out here: http://info.break.com/static/live/v1/pages/sponsors/cheetlism/cheetlism.html For Valentines Day, I made Manuel a card and plush tiki. I was toying with the idea to make a duk duk valentine, and did some drawings, but I decided that duk duks at New Year's was a good close to that motif. I then started thinking PNG... So I made a Plush PNG Valentine and card. Here's the packaging and envelope: Here's the card: It has a cut out shape of a PNG tiki, with heart shaped elements. he inside of the card is red, so when it is closed, the body of the tiki is red. The plush tiki doll is 9" tall and has a body of red velvet, with vinyl, corduroy, and flannel details. And then, near the end of the month, it was Kirby's birthday! I found out only hours before heading out to the Rumpus Room that week, but I had enough time to whip up this black paper card of the Rumpus Room tiki that Kirby carved. I painted a frame in tapa pattern to make it more "gifty"... I was running out the door balancing the frame to keep it from smearing or dripping... it was still wet, and had to dry on the way to La Crescenta! Well, that's it! Not much this time around, but I'm workin' on it! Mahalo fer lookin'! Yer pal, Eric OCtober http://ericoctober.com [ Edited by: tobunga 2010-04-07 17:59 ]

Mahalo Liz! So glad you like my work! Hey, see if you can get your co-workers to buy some of it! Hee hee!
Doug- Great praise from a GREAT artist! Mahalo!
TikiG- That was one fun and productive chop! Let's do it again soon!
beadtiki- glad my work feels like it would be at home in a vintage home tiki bar... although wheels on a swivel bar stool seems kinds dangerous!
Kinny, you my friend, are the inspiration!

So in keeping with my trying to post at least once a month, here goes for February... short month, so I didn't finish a lot of stuff...

You may have seen by now the tiki I made out of Cheetos Snacks... I posted it in a thread about the event on the 3rd St. Promenade in Santa Monica where it was on display.
Here's the tiki near completion. it's 32" high and 14" wide, made from a paste of Cheetos, water, and tissue paper... yummy!

Me and my Cheetos tiki.

The mighty Cheetos Snacks Tiki!!!

It took about 5 hours of messy, sticky sculpting to complete, then I had to dry for a couple of days. I wasn't sure if it would dry in time, so I put it in the oven at a low heat for a couple of hours. It was too big to fit inside the oven completely, so I constructed a makeshift box out of aluminum foil lined wood panels around the open door of the oven... and it actually worked!

The videos with the Cheetos Tiki I did have been posted, check 'em out here:
http://info.break.com/static/live/v1/pages/sponsors/cheetlism/cheetlism.html

For Valentines Day, I made Manuel a card and plush tiki. I was toying with the idea to make a duk duk valentine, and did some drawings, but I decided that duk duks at New Year's was a good close to that motif. I then started thinking PNG...

So I made a Plush PNG Valentine and card. Here's the packaging and envelope:

Here's the card:

It has a cut out shape of a PNG tiki, with heart shaped elements. he inside of the card is red, so when it is closed, the body of the tiki is red.

The plush tiki doll is 9" tall and has a body of red velvet, with vinyl, corduroy, and flannel details.

And then, near the end of the month, it was Kirby's birthday! I found out only hours before heading out to the Rumpus Room that week, but I had enough time to whip up this black paper card of the Rumpus Room tiki that Kirby carved.

I painted a frame in tapa pattern to make it more "gifty"... I was running out the door balancing the frame to keep it from smearing or dripping... it was still wet, and had to dry on the way to La Crescenta!

Well, that's it! Not much this time around, but I'm workin' on it!

Mahalo fer lookin'!
Yer pal,
Eric OCtober

http://ericoctober.com

[ Edited by: tobunga 2010-04-07 17:59 ]

Post #514087 by tobunga on Sun, Feb 28, 2010 1:12 PM