Post #374162 by Fugu on Wed, Apr 16, 2008 7:17 PM

Thanks for all of the compliments, everyone. I'm really flattered by the nice comments from such talented Tiki artists!

Sneakytiki, I totally agree that the red is a little too red. It dried more red than I thought it would- it was a little more on the rusty side when I was originally applying it. It is a little hard to tell what the correct red should be for these. I haven't seen one up close, and in the pictures the red actually looks like a pretty true red (rather than an orange like I would have expected for a tribal piece.) I'm going to try to make it a little more orange this weekend as well as try out some aging techniques. If it works out, I will post some new pix afterward.

If anyone is interested in making one of these, the website below includes some really great pictures of various masks. It was especially useful because it showed the masks from several different angles including the sides and back so that you could really do a reasonable reproduction. (It also has photos of other oceanic and tribal art that are pretty cool)

http://artvs-internet.luise.eikona-server.de/

Fugu

[ Edited by: Fugu 2008-04-16 19:26 ]