Post #734662 by tikiskip on Thu, Jan 8, 2015 9:34 AM

Cool video.

So is your main love ice carving?
Looks like it is.
And do you love tiki and or carving tiki, or is carving tiki a way to make money
more than a thing you feel the same love as you do ice carving?

The marlin in the first part of Ice Throne would be a cool wood carving as well.
Would think that anything you make of ice could be done in wood.

Do you have a name that you carve under and sign your name to all of your works?
I think that is important to do, if you are making art and selling art you should sign your art.

I'm not a carver, (took down a bunch of trees when young as a job) but I do make tiki lights and
I do this because I really like doing it.
Selling these lights only helps me offset the costs of the things needed to make more lights
and buy tiki crap.

Most of the tiki carvers here first liked tiki then started carving them.
Seams like you are carving them and growing into liking them, and that's fine.

But the best work will come from you when you are doing what you really love
as it's more a part of you than "will this sell"

I would bet most of the carvers here did not so much develop a style as it just kinda came about
when they started carving more.
I do look at other lights (not only tiki lights but all lights)for ideas but try to put my spin on them and that spin can be seen as mine.

When one can look at your carving and know it's your style then you will have won.

Good luck though making a living.
Making a living off of any art form is not easy.
Not many here can make a living off of tiki.