Post #620628 by danlovestikis on Thu, Jan 12, 2012 8:58 AM

Thank you rugbymatt and hang10tiki

We were with Dan's mom all day yesterday so I just worked a bit of clay for Roge's next lamp. The Bumatay will be the center piece and then there will be other sea creatures and shells. I used a 4.5 inch seahorse as a model for a 3.5 inch sculpt.

Mom was so happy I was making something other than a tiki. She wishes I was making dolls which is what she collects. Sorry mom-in-law I love tikis!

Sketched out the seahorse and cut off the excess with a huge knife.

Smoothed it out with my fingers.

Worked on the face and added the backbone.

Added the detail to the back fin.

This is as far as I could go, there is no light in the home. I'll finish it at ours.

So I thought I knew what a turtle looked like because I had one when I was a child.

So I played around with it the rest of the night.

Today I went to google and scanned images under Hawaiian Turtle. Wow was I off. I didn't even have sea turtle in my mind at all. So I'll use this one as a base and fix it until it's like this drawing. I had fun anyway and mom loved it.

There's always something fun to work on, cheers, Wendy