Paipo's Stone Tikis - 1st Thread - Jun 06 - May 08 - Tiki Carving

P Paipo Member Aotearoa / NZ Joined: Jun 22, 2006 Posts: 1886	P Paipo Posted posted on Fri, Feb 8, 2008 1:51 AM Man, another 2 weeks without any action! I'm pleased to say I've finally got something new to post, but first - thanks to Robin, TikiShark and C'Al for calling by. I've had a good response to the first couple of shows and it looks like we might be opening a few more doors ("we" meaning our ever-changing little collective that shows together regularly). I had a fantastic opening night here in my hometown, where I haven't shown a decent amount of new work since way back when Tama and I used do 2 man shows. :music: Memories.... Many thanks to the man himself for showing up on Friday for the opening too! Crazy Al - awesome story! I think these things have more influence on us in our later years than we realise. The lapidary club/rockhounding heyday was very much in step with with Tiki - it really flourished in the 50s and 60s, being another popular form of post-war escapism for the well-heeled suburbanite. Then it faded out for a while and is just now starting to make a resurgence again. I worked for a guy who was a total "old-schooler" and he taught me more in 6 months than I managed in 2 years at rock school. He had spent many years in the club scene and had an incredible museum in his basement, which I looked into from the carving studio. He also had decades worth of old Lapidary Journals in big hardbound volumes which I pored over for endless hours (I had nothing else to do!) I have carved and fossicked for obsidian in the North Island and it can be tricky stuff to work with (essentially being glass) but the results are spectacular. I'd love to see the Apache Tears, and anytime you get an idea for something to do with them, you know where to find me! Maybe you could figure some way to use them as pupils in one of your big guys...possibly backlit? So, on to the new work I mentioned...this is a quick carving (ie about half what I'd usually spend on a regular piece) just to get back into the tiki Groove after so long using different tools and techniques. The shape I wanted was already in the stone, so it ended up being more engraved than carved. He was meant to be a fairly standard Rei-Puta design but sort of evolved (if you can call it that) into something different. Something...strange: The Pebble is argillite, which didn't behave quite the same as my usual greywacke, and the eyes are black jade. More to come soon? [ Edited by: Paipo 2008-02-08 01:59 ]

Man, another 2 weeks without any action! I'm pleased to say I've finally got something new to post, but first - thanks to Robin, TikiShark and C'Al for calling by. I've had a good response to the first couple of shows and it looks like we might be opening a few more doors ("we" meaning our ever-changing little collective that shows together regularly). I had a fantastic opening night here in my hometown, where I haven't shown a decent amount of new work since way back when Tama and I used do 2 man shows. :music: Memories....
Many thanks to the man himself for showing up on Friday for the opening too!

Crazy Al - awesome story! I think these things have more influence on us in our later years than we realise. The lapidary club/rockhounding heyday was very much in step with with Tiki - it really flourished in the 50s and 60s, being another popular form of post-war escapism for the well-heeled suburbanite. Then it faded out for a while and is just now starting to make a resurgence again. I worked for a guy who was a total "old-schooler" and he taught me more in 6 months than I managed in 2 years at rock school. He had spent many years in the club scene and had an incredible museum in his basement, which I looked into from the carving studio. He also had decades worth of old Lapidary Journals in big hardbound volumes which I pored over for endless hours (I had nothing else to do!)
I have carved and fossicked for obsidian in the North Island and it can be tricky stuff to work with (essentially being glass) but the results are spectacular. I'd love to see the Apache Tears, and anytime you get an idea for something to do with them, you know where to find me! Maybe you could figure some way to use them as pupils in one of your big guys...possibly backlit?

So, on to the new work I mentioned...this is a quick carving (ie about half what I'd usually spend on a regular piece) just to get back into the tiki Groove after so long using different tools and techniques. The shape I wanted was already in the stone, so it ended up being more engraved than carved. He was meant to be a fairly standard Rei-Puta design but sort of evolved (if you can call it that) into something different. Something...strange:

The Pebble is argillite, which didn't behave quite the same as my usual greywacke, and the eyes are black jade. More to come soon?

[ Edited by: Paipo 2008-02-08 01:59 ]

Post #359996 by Paipo on Fri, Feb 8, 2008 1:51 AM