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T THOR's Member Joined: Apr 30, 2004 Posts: 610	T THOR's Posted posted on Mon, Dec 6, 2010 8:03 PM Great input Tikitacky! Thank you for the compliments too! I have read a lot on these various things you refer to..and FULLY agree on the term "Jivaro" being antiquated in the context you refer to. I use it more ofcourse because I like to simulate the idea that these are labeled as such from museums and sources aquired maybe 50 yrs ago or something... The heads I do and will do are still "inspired" by the true practice, but I take a lot of artist license to make them somewhere between what is truly authentic and what we would like to see as "dramatized"/stylized. In this smaller Resin head pictured, it is not as "real" looking as the others I do but pretty convincing to most who see them. Check out my other threads for the ones with facial hair...etc. To me, this is a really fun side hobby to teeter on real and fantasy with these heads. In the future, I have two heads I plan to sculpt masters for. One will be a head where I fully attempt to represent a true Shuar type head...with any details, facial forms and adornments being authentic. One thing impossible to aquire would be the tucan feathers used. I do now have molds of actual Chrysophora chyrysochlora which are the green iridescent beetles found in Peru that I aquired. Their wings were used to adorn the heads as well. I am perfecting faux representations that will be petty darn close. Another head I will sculpt is a full blown fantasy head....VERY real but VERY savage...and exaggerated as we would like to see in the most dramatic of deep exotic jungle ways. Anyway....I will stop here, cus I can go way too much into detail on this subject and I need to get back to my paintings. Thanks for the feedback. Well spoken and good stuff for all to be aware of. OK..Time to "HEAD OFF" to my work!! ~~T

Great input Tikitacky! Thank you for the compliments too!

I have read a lot on these various things you refer to..and FULLY agree on the term "Jivaro" being antiquated in the context you refer to. I use it more ofcourse because I like to simulate the idea that these are labeled as such from museums and sources aquired maybe 50 yrs ago or something...

The heads I do and will do are still "inspired" by the true practice, but I take a lot of artist license to make them somewhere between what is truly authentic and what we would like to see as "dramatized"/stylized. In this smaller Resin head pictured, it is not as "real" looking as the others I do but pretty convincing to most who see them. Check out my other threads for the ones with facial hair...etc. To me, this is a really fun side hobby to teeter on real and fantasy with these heads.

In the future, I have two heads I plan to sculpt masters for. One will be a head where I fully attempt to represent a true Shuar type head...with any details, facial forms and adornments being authentic. One thing impossible to aquire would be the tucan feathers used. I do now have molds of actual Chrysophora chyrysochlora which are the green iridescent beetles found in Peru that I aquired. Their wings were used to adorn the heads as well. I am perfecting faux representations that will be petty darn close.

Another head I will sculpt is a full blown fantasy head....VERY real but VERY savage...and exaggerated as we would like to see in the most dramatic of deep exotic jungle ways.

Anyway....I will stop here, cus I can go way too much into detail on this subject and I need to get back to my paintings. Thanks for the feedback. Well spoken and good stuff for all to be aware of. OK..Time to "HEAD OFF" to my work!! ~~T

Post #567885 by THOR's on Mon, Dec 6, 2010 8:03 PM