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Its a colored now

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2'5" tall and made from a sabal palm just waiting to apply the stain and get him finished....
The idea came from staring at one of Dougs "Swamp Fire" beer monkeys and adding a little of Sam Gambinos's fez and personality. Then playing with his Crazy Al toes and hands. I can't wait to stain this guy and say done.

[ Edited by: PalmCityTiki 2009-08-05 18:07 ]

It's monkey with a fez, it doesn't get anymore tiki than that. Nice carving and nicely Photoshopped picture.

L

Great carve!

I would love to see the fez covered in leopard fabric with a tassle after you stain him ...just to give it that added something and to make his fez stand out. But that is only my opinion!

B
Babalu posted on Mon, Aug 3, 2009 5:28 PM

Very nice indeed, but he needs to be posted in the carving area.

T

That looks great! Can't wait to see him stained.

I like that monkey! Great work, and it fits in well here....

H
hewey posted on Mon, Aug 3, 2009 8:12 PM

What a cheeky little monkey! I love it!

T

This guy was great to see in person, and I really hope you don't lose the pinkys on his shaka hands.

here he is colored... that is not a derogatory term.... NAACP.


with details




T

Beautiful job!

SWEET! You can't go wrong with a monkey wearing a red fez & vest. I didn't want to say anything but I was afraid you would stain him all brown :D

Beautifully done!! Are you gonna share your technique? I saw this at the Jam and was very blown away - till now!

Water basted stains and Pasche VL3 airbrush.... I mix a little of india ink into the blacks also to get the blacks ultra deep. That is the secret...

I used to airbrush at the Sawgrass Mills Mall for the first 5 years that it was open. Some of my airbrush pieces are on my Deviant Art page.

Very cool chongo!!!

S
squid posted on Thu, Aug 6, 2009 3:30 PM

On 2009-08-05 18:06, PalmCityTiki wrote:
here he is colored... that is not a derogatory term.... NAACP.

Very nice work, but a might defensive there PalmCity. I don't think the NAACP trolls TC much.

But I noticed it's phrased in a derogatory way in your post title. You might want to change it to "It's colored now".

Keep up the great work.

What i really wanna know is......

HowintheHeck did you photograph your monkey
FROM ALL ANGLES
ALL IN THE SAME PHOTOGRAPH!?!?!?

Miraculous!
Didja have a Time machine Camera fer that?
:)

Actually getting his to slow down enough to get a good pic would be the secret.... (I use really high speed film)

[i]On 2009-08-06 15:38, little lost tiki wrote:
What i really wanna know is......

HowintheHeck did you photograph your monkey
FROM ALL ANGLES
ALL IN THE SAME PHOTOGRAPH!?!?!?

Miraculous!
Didja have a Time machine Camera fer that?
:)

He spun it like a quarter :)

M
Mako posted on Fri, Aug 7, 2009 8:35 PM

loving the vest-fez combo

RH

I like the mean tilt of the fez.

HJ

Off the hipness scale! Good on you.

bump, where ya at!!!

I'm impressed: that palm wood looks like actual damn dirty ape hide!

Beautiful work.

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