MadDog Mike's Platterful of Pupule - Boar Tusk - Other Crafts

M MadDogMike Grand Member (8 years) The Anvil of the Sun Joined: Mar 30, 2008 Posts: 11053	M MadDogMike Posted posted on Tue, Sep 6, 2011 9:15 PM Bead, Hang10, Zero - thank you very much. Zero I missed you guys too, maybe next year. Robb & Kinny - I am still years from mastering this artform but I'm getting where my hands can form some crude semblence of what my twisted little brain imagines. Wendy, it was great to get together with some of the TC folk to eat, yak, and art. This was kind of a last minute project, by the night before the Chop I still didn't have a project to work on. I looked through my "inspiration file" and found a picture of a chimp I had taken a few years back. This IS a tiki board and I really do think that most of the art should be tiki inspired, so I need to "tikify" this guy a little. I'm thinking a pith helmet. A ceramic hat would be too heavy, fragile and would rattle too much. I'm thinking polymer clay - much lighter and less fragile, with a Millefiore tapa hat band and maybe some PNG accoutrements. I envision that the chimp found the hat on the jungle trail and is pretty damned proud of it. Working title is "One Man's Trash is Another Chimp's Treasure" Still a lot of clean up to do and a slow dry as he's pretty thick in some spots. Be good to yourself and to the ones you love [ Edited by: MadDogMike 2011-09-07 06:03 ]

Bead, Hang10, Zero - thank you very much. Zero I missed you guys too, maybe next year.

Robb & Kinny - I am still years from mastering this artform but I'm getting where my hands can form some crude semblence of what my twisted little brain imagines.

Wendy, it was great to get together with some of the TC folk to eat, yak, and art. This was kind of a last minute project, by the night before the Chop I still didn't have a project to work on. I looked through my "inspiration file" and found a picture of a chimp I had taken a few years back. This IS a tiki board and I really do think that most of the art should be tiki inspired, so I need to "tikify" this guy a little. I'm thinking a pith helmet. A ceramic hat would be too heavy, fragile and would rattle too much. I'm thinking polymer clay - much lighter and less fragile, with a Millefiore tapa hat band and maybe some PNG accoutrements. I envision that the chimp found the hat on the jungle trail and is pretty damned proud of it. Working title is "One Man's Trash is Another Chimp's Treasure" Still a lot of clean up to do and a slow dry as he's pretty thick in some spots.

Be good to yourself and to the ones you love

[ Edited by: MadDogMike 2011-09-07 06:03 ]

Post #605761 by MadDogMike on Tue, Sep 6, 2011 9:15 PM