Post #808238 by swizzle on Wed, Mar 8, 2023 2:46 AM

Thanks Or Got Rum and hottiki.

If they gave out awards for procrastinating then i would definitely be in the running. After posting back at the end of May last year a bunch of lamps i made i said that 'frames' would be next after i finished off a couple more. In that time from then until now i've made a few more lamps, some fish floats, and a couple of new mug designs (pics to come) and only today, finally finished a frame i've been working on for far too long, so without further ado, here's a bunch of picture frames, in no particular order, i've made for various things.

This frame was originally made to display swizzle sticks (I actually made two and repurposed the other one as well for something else). Although they looked good i just felt they took up too much wall space which i could use for other artwork so i removed all the sticks and added this "Witco" mask to it. (I was always led to believe it was a proper Witco but learned that it was most likely made by Tiki House Gift Shop who was an employee of Witco).

It looked a little plain like this so i added this background.

Here the carving was too similar in colour to the leopard skin fabric and got a little lost so i tried something else and the third time was the charm.

The following two are frames i made for some carvings i found at some thrift stores.

I bought a few original mini paintings off Candy Weil and when they arrived she had thrown this drawing in as an extra and i thought it deserved to be framed.

This was also an extra thrown in, along with a thank you note, from an artist on Instagram (fantasyincolours) who i also bought an original painting from. This little painting, around 2" x 3", came in a white card sleeve which i drew the tree/bark pattern onto with markers and then made a frame for it. I think it turned out great.

These next three i made because i hate Bob but others love him so i figured that the way people go nuts over all the different mug versions of him, maybe they'd want something different. Boy was i wrong. (I've only sold one :lol:).

Next is this swizzle stick pack/card i found on ebay. Something so incredibly cool definitely needed to be displayed properly.

Now when Oceanic Arts announced that they were closing back in late 2021 it really inspired me to do something with the pieces of Tapa i bought from there back when i visited in 2012. I bought a couple of square/rectangle pieces i planned to use for lamps (seen in previous posts) and a couple of round pieces. Here is the first one i made.

This second one was made at the same time (without the carving detail) but it took me ages to work out what sort of pattern to add to it. When the OA book arrived, there on the first page their logo was staring me straight in the face, so right then and there i knew exactly what to do. Well over 2hrs was spent routing all those logos onto the frame, and it looked quite rough until it was sanded, burnt and stained, but i'm very pleased with the result.

This was a print i actually bought very early on into my collecting/interest in Tiki and i found it rolled up in a tube in a box when i was looking for something so i whipped up a frame for it.

And last but not least, the frame that was holding up this post since May last year. I've never spent as much time on a frame as i did on this one, and all for what is just an average quality print (I.E. It's just printed on card, not a numbered and signed giclee or anything), but i think it turned out pretty good and was worth it in the end.

So that's it for frames i think, unless i've missed something that's slipped my mind because it isn't hanging on a wall somewhere around me at the moment. I've got a couple of new mugs to show but before those, i'll post what was my biggest project i've made next.

Cheers

swiz

EDIT: Okay. Going back through my thread i noticed i did miss something. Covid really messed with people's time. We all effectively 'lost' a couple of years and i didn't realize that this happened during that time, but i was fortunate enough to find some Chinese jade breezeway tiles here in Australia.

I got my hands on four and would have loved to have bought more but it was all i could afford at the time as they were interstate and i had to get a friend to pick them up and then post them to me (he got a few for himself as well).

I've done something with all four of them. One you'll see in my next post. Two of them are in 'kinda' a frame, (the idea was some sort of room divider) but i want to do more/add/change them, i'm not really sure at the moment, so i'll post those when i've worked it out.

And this is what i did with the final one (although i think this was the first one i did anything with). I'm really happy with how this turned out.

Ok. NOW that's it.

[ Edited by swizzle on 2023-03-08 03:10:47 ]