First time carver, long time screw up....

yea yea, you've heard it a 100 times but after purchasing, painting, observing ect for a long time I decided I would give it a crack...swapped a painting for a set of carving tools and set out to loose a finger and gain a tiki. Carved out of a 3 ft chunk of driftwood (which I realize now is not the best way as little pockets of rotten wood, sand, and critters became common) anyhow.....the first one..

nice, is that elvis?

Welcome well done excellent first tiki

Now you got the bug. Nice tiki, look forward to seeing more.
JP

Great work, I do alot of driftwood I think all that stuff adds character to the piece. I usually leave barnacles on it somewhere. Keep 'em commin'

Thats a nice one. You should post some of work from your website - great stuff. Now that you have the fever keep em comin.

Looks great,man!

thanks guys...as always you are all very supportive as us newbies start chucking wood chips...

here are a few tiki items from my website as requested...

some other paintings and wood works

scratchboard...

Good for a first carve, much better than my first. Paintings are way cool too. Those scratchboard pieces are BAD-ASS!!!!

On 2006-02-22 16:25, surf-n-turf wrote:
Good for a first carve, much better than my first. Paintings are way cool too. Those scratchboard pieces are BAD-ASS!!!!

Whoa! What he said!
Really! First Carve? That's fantastic. I'm a NOOB and I've carved 4 things and I'm getting depressed...I wish I could do what you did the first time! It's awesome. All the stuff out here is great quality, seems, except for my stuff...wah! Ok. I'm done crying. Nice job.

It DOES look like Elvis though. But that's ok :wink:

On 2006-02-22 16:34, tikigap wrote:

On 2006-02-22 16:25, surf-n-turf wrote:
Good for a first carve, much better than my first. Paintings are way cool too. Those scratchboard pieces are BAD-ASS!!!!

Whoa! What he said!
Really! First Carve? That's fantastic. I'm a NOOB and I've carved 4 things and I'm getting depressed...I wish I could do what you did the first time! It's awesome. All the stuff out here is great quality, seems, except for my stuff...wah! Ok. I'm done crying. Nice job.

It DOES look like Elvis though. But that's ok :wink:

hahaha...damn elvis....as for the first tiki i'll be honest...i played around on a small chunk of wood for a while to get a feel for the tools but this was the first "hey everybody else is doin it" tiki....starting out is tough but man, getting a real set of chisels and gouges made a HUGE difference...and thanks to vontiki, i'll soon have another log to spill blood on.

Very cool first carving . I have seen your work somewhere else before, Sketchkult maybe?

Welcome aboard.

Hey rodeo! yea I basically spend the day between here and sketchkult....love both sites...they keep me from looking at porn and doing actual work....

Excellent first tiki in wood, even if he is an Elvis impersonator. We see tikis sometimes that love the elvis style so I guess it's not just a human thing. Your other artwork is really topknotch too, I Love your "Live-Ride". We MUST See More!