Post #594073 by spiked on Fri, Jun 17, 2011 1:45 PM

Thank you Queen and Grog! :) I will be making more puffers-in-the-float soon!

Here are just a few random things that I made..

I think decorated skulls from PNG are pretty neat, and I saw some neat looking ones @ Oceanic Arts a few years ago, when we went, so I made this little buddy last year:

I also been looking around to find a way to make quick and sturdy masks for elements outdoors, so I found plastic PNG Trader Vic looking mold and poured concrete, then just painted it with regular hobby store acrylics. Its good for what it is.

Tiki is really inspiring to me, like I said before and very exciting and it keeps me motivated to try different things.
After being terrified of clay for years ( I don't know why) I wanted to try my hand at it. I love working with clay now, so many options. Please go easy on me, these are my first attempts at the world of ceramics :P

During our trip to Chicago a few years ago, we made a stop at Natural History Museum and checked out their Oceanic exhibit, oh my! They have a huge collection of PNG and NZ items, that I only seen in pictures, just so mind-blowing . I have seen Duk Duk before, but not a life-sized one, lol, so adorable and sinister at the same time, as any other PNG art is.

We fell in love with it, and Jim kept asking me to make him a mug, and that he has an idea for a drink to go with it.

and here is another one, hand built coils, it is small so it holds my swizzles :P

So the proportions were a bit off on the first Duk, so I made another one, just got it back from firing yesterday, and the idea was to make a mold, but the feedback I have been getting is that I should rather sculpt it with modeling clay, then make a plaster mold... Bummer.. I was looking forward to attempting my first plaster mold with this one. Gonna glaze this one up, thinking of going with brown on bottom and white feathers on the hat, just like one @ the museum. What do you think?