Post #794703 by MadDogMike on Thu, Apr 25, 2019 12:08 AM

Snadbartender (TC)/Scott Huber on the Facebook Tiki Lamp group made this lamp he called The Unfortunate Tourist. It has a shrunken head in a netted globe with a safari hat as shade

I thought it was really cool and decided to make one for myself. I'm not sure what Scott used for a shrunken head but I have clay so I set out to make a clay one. I started with a plastic skull and wrapped it in a plastic bag so I could get the skull out later.

I covered the skull in slabbed clay and formed it to the skull, adding some basic features. I wanted it to be somewhat distorted because of the shrinking process

After the clay had hardened some, I split it down the middle and removed the plastic skull

I put the head back together without the plastic skull and started adding more details

Now to let it slowly dry and continue to detail the hair.

[ Edited by: maddogmike 2019-04-25 16:49 ]