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Wed, Sep 2, 2009 7:26 PM
Awesommmmmmmmmme Mike. So cool! Inspiration for us all. |
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TikiMango
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Wed, Sep 2, 2009 7:31 PM
Too cool for school!! |
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MadDogMike
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Thu, Sep 3, 2009 6:20 AM
Kinny, great to have you back - now get to posting art! |
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Iokona Ki'i
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Thu, Sep 3, 2009 3:30 PM
Mike's been bizzy in the tiki lab! And this one is outta sight! I think |
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Bowana
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Thu, Sep 3, 2009 8:10 PM
Evil Genius. |
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MadDogMike
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Fri, Sep 4, 2009 8:23 AM
Thank you Jason, we're still awaiting post-Oasis postings from you! I've had a small pond on my Lanai for several years that I made from a couple of concrete pipes. I had originally covered it with cedar boards but I have been inspired by the TC gardens to step it up a notch. So I took off the boards and faced it with lava stone. I plan to cover the top edge with some very dark slate, but my only local landscape rock supplier is out right now :( CAUTION - UNORTHODOX TECHNIQUE!!!!! I used black dye in my mortar but neither the rocks nor the mortar turned out as dark as I wanted so I SPRAY PAINTED them! I figure the paint will stick well to the rough porous stone. I'm sure it will fade in a year or two but I can fix that in ten minutes with a 98 cent can of flat black spray.
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Sun, Sep 6, 2009 3:53 AM
Yay! So glad i finally get to see the finished water fall! Looks amazing. keep it up! |
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Babalu
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Sun, Sep 6, 2009 11:36 AM
Really nice Mike...your just on fire man! |
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MadDogMike
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Sun, Sep 6, 2009 12:40 PM
Thank you Lorilei and Babalu :) Back to the Laboratory for work on an Aloha Jhoe's menu inspired piece. Still got a ways to go, will get a detachable jute skirt of some sort. About 13 inches tall with a removable lid, a straw hole in the left "horn", and a yet-to-be-revealed secret feature :D. ![](http://www.mgilbert.net/tiki lab banner.gif) [ Edited by: MadDogMike 2009-09-06 12:50 ] |
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Sun, Sep 6, 2009 1:49 PM
:o Hot Damn, Dr. MadDog! :o Foaming at the mouth! :D |
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MadDogMike
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Tue, Sep 8, 2009 1:24 PM
Thank you Blacksandz I've been experimenting with food and clay :) I've been working on a dessert inspired by Mama's Fish House Black Pearl Dessert. I made some ceramic shell plates and got the recipe right, but the mousse wouldn't hold the cookie upright! So back to the Laboratory to make plates with built-in cookie holders :D The shell is slump-formed over a real shell and overglazed with mother-of-pearl luster. Recipe is posted on page 2 of the above link |
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Tue, Sep 8, 2009 2:09 PM
Mike great job on the waterfall mug, love it!!!! Amy |
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MadDogMike
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Wed, Sep 9, 2009 6:46 PM
Thanks Amy :) Glad you like it. I wanted a quick little project so I made me a Maori Wahaika. It's kind of thick (about half an inch), I made it out of paperclay so can force dry it. I put some cracks and checking in it, I'll give it a brown wash to make it look like aged whalebone. 13 inches long, it will be heavy when done ![](http://www.mgilbert.net/tiki lab banner.gif) [ Edited by: MadDogMike 2009-09-09 19:06 ] |
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Fri, Sep 11, 2009 1:17 PM
very cool!!! |
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MadDogMike
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Fri, Sep 11, 2009 7:10 PM
Thank you Mooney, here's the finished product Paperclay is really cool for quick projects. This is about 1/2 inch thick, with forced drying it took 48 hours from sculpt, through 2 firings, to finished and cooled. |
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Fri, Sep 11, 2009 7:29 PM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! :o :o :o :o :o GREAT pic, Mike! Sufficiently savage! |
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Sat, Sep 12, 2009 5:15 PM
Very Cool Stuff Mike, Nice to had seen you at Oasis, Great work my friend, Cheers! Gogo |
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Sat, Sep 12, 2009 6:06 PM
I started with page one and couldn't stop, I enjoyed them all. I'm going to switch to clay soon and the tips from all the artists will help me too. You got me with the dime, I love being fooled. Thank you for sharing everything, Wendy |
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Sun, Sep 13, 2009 10:00 AM
Hmm...your name's MadDogMike, is it? Can't imagine why... Nice work as always, Mr. MadDog, Evil Genius. Bowie |
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Sun, Sep 13, 2009 8:07 PM
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Sun, Sep 13, 2009 9:22 PM
Very cool stuff MadDog! |
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MadDogMike
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Mon, Sep 14, 2009 12:36 AM
Well folks, sorry if scared you with that picture :o Gogo, Bowana, Sam - thank you very much. I finally finished this little bone Aku Aku. About 3 inches tall with an antler toggle. I love the finish you can get on bone. (Had a heck of a time getting a decent picture though) |
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Wed, Sep 16, 2009 8:19 PM
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Wed, Sep 16, 2009 8:30 PM
Not sure how I missed this a couple of days ago, great piece. I can't see your cord, self-braided? Looking forward to seeing more bone from your creative hands. |
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Thu, Sep 17, 2009 8:08 AM
MP, thanks - SHAKE THAT FUNK, the world needs your art!!! :) Tiki Mango, thank you too. The cord is self braided. I tried a 4 cord braid but couldn't figure it out so I did 3 strands of doubled waxed cord.
For April Fools, I did a micro bone carving hoax and fooled some of the kind TC folks. I felt bad and thought the only way I could redeem myself was to do a REAL micro bone carving. Let me say that I have the utmost respect for the carvers, that's an artform that will take me a long time to acquire a basic competence :) I stole this idea from Buzzy and tried to make a carved hat cord slider. I got a piece if deer antler (because it was round and solid) and tried to carve an ivi po'o. 3/4 inch tall and 1/2 inch in diameter. It didn't turn out so great but I'll keep trying - I think I'm better off sticking with larger projects for now. I didn't really care for the antler as much as bone, it seems more fibrous and doesn't polish up as well. It has an interesting color but I prefer the ivory look of bone. |
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Thu, Sep 17, 2009 8:21 AM
turned out fine enough,i say! that paperclay club is pretty awesome... but.... lose the facial hair poseur! |
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MadDogMike
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Sat, Sep 19, 2009 9:37 PM
Kinny, the moko was temporary but the facial hair is permanent - it helps cover my ugly face :D I finished my Aloha Jhoe's mug, I went with monochrome like the menu illustration. Unfortunately, it will never see the light of the Swap - I broke three of the little "petals" off the top. :( There was also some glaze crawling, probably from my repair attempts. I broke it after it was bisqued and before it was glazed. I tried wet-on-bisque with paperclay but it didn't stick. I tried to repair it with brickset/refractory cement and that didn't work either. I could use some superglue but the broken pieces are not yet glazed. My next plan it to fire the little glazed pieces on stilt points, reglaze the crawled areas, and try superglue. It won't be good enough to swap but may be good enough to keep. |
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Sat, Sep 19, 2009 11:05 PM
Good work Mike. It still looks good even with the |
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MadDogMike
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Fri, Sep 25, 2009 8:04 AM
Thank you MP Working on a new "diorama" mug with a small waterfall and pond, still got a long ways to go. Does anyone recognize it? Probably not, the last time you saw it you were in drunken stupor :lol: I can only hope my amateur work doesn't offend the artisan gods who created the original, the last thing I need is a curse! |
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Fri, Sep 25, 2009 11:58 AM
it's amy's bar. |
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MadDogMike
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Sat, Sep 26, 2009 6:53 AM
Perry, it's ironic you would ID that location - I think you and I are the only TC folk in the southwest US that haven't been there! :lol: I was working on this Rietveld inspired mug at the Lagoon Chop last week, complete with garnished re-usable straw. Seems sometimes it's harder to take a decent picture of your work than it was to make it! |
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Sat, Sep 26, 2009 9:39 AM
Oooohhhh, nice woodgrain effect on that mug. I really like your Moai bone carving, too. Makes me want to break out my lapidary tools. If it wasn't for the unfortunate bone burning incident of '76! I was boiling a piece of bone to clean it and forgot it was on the stove . . . for an hour or so . . . |
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Sat, Sep 26, 2009 10:10 AM
that's exactly HOW i would describe hoe Mike smells! :lol: DI-O-RAMA! eggs-sell-ent... That Rietveld turned out pretty cool.. |
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Sat, Sep 26, 2009 10:10 AM
oops! double-clicked.. [ Edited by: little lost tiki 2009-09-26 10:12 ] |
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Sat, Sep 26, 2009 2:37 PM
i've been there, mike. it's quite impressive. |
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Sat, Sep 26, 2009 3:28 PM
Just so you don't have to give credit where credit isn't due: Everything you are and ever will be as a tiki artist is due to all the hard work of BigBro. You should go back and change your original post so that it says your work, like Rietveld's, has always been inspired the tiki photo work of BigBro. Nice one! Looks familar to me. However,I think I put the long faced guy on the left. Don't forget the table and chairs! Buzzy Out! |
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Sat, Sep 26, 2009 5:04 PM
Kiki - Thank you. My wife won't even let me carve bone in the house with a Dremel because of the stench, I can't imagine burning it on the stove!!!! Kenny, so impressed that you replied twice? Thank you, Thank you :lol: Perry - "I've been there, Mike. it's quite impressive" Buzzy - Tiki-Kate was telling me about that. Now I feel better that Rietveld ripped off the design that I ripped off from him. Thank you BigBro. |
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Sat, Sep 26, 2009 9:11 PM
Oh no.An error occurred. Site administrators have been notified of the error. |