Post #644755 by danlovestikis on Thu, Jul 19, 2012 1:12 PM

Thank you LoriLovestiki, I like your swap Pele too.

hang10tiki you did a great job. I don't know how you control your chisels to make such smooth lines. I've not gotten to perfection yet but I'll never stop trying. I've sent this on to Joniece so she may enjoy it too.

Progress Report:

Roge who makes the chunk lamps also turns our tikis into statues. He first did the Moai and now he wants the Bumatay Fish as a statue. I use a small heater to melt the Roma #3 clay. It is so hard that this speeds up the process.

I added it to the back of the Bumatay to make it more substantial as a statue.

Decades ago I took the exam to enter dental school. One of the things we had to do was carve plaster blocks into a key and a lock. I've found that to work well with clay projects. So to the fish I added an extended bottom as the key. Then into the base I carved the lock.

Back view. When fitted together I will add clay to seal the key into place but first I need to finish the base.

I removed clay to add waves to the base.

Now I will add clay to lock the pieces together.

All done. It's time to visit Roge in Grass Valley.

Years ago when I was still working with Sculpey clay I would find a vintage bowl and make tikis to attach to it. One of my favorite bowls had the sides caved in. I made and added Tahitian style tikis.


Today when I opened the molds I decided to cave in the sides of this bowl and to add the small Frankoma tikis. I first made little seats added sticky clay and sat them down to attach.

Last night I worked more on the Sacramento Crawl mug. This one will be a challenge.

Now I need to work on the Spy/Tiki painting and Otto's face. Cheers, Wendy