Post #733563 by danlovestikis on Sun, Dec 21, 2014 11:20 AM

hang10tiki (:

hang10tiki I'd forgotten I made that bowl. I like how the tikis eyes are looking up at the kiwi as it sips his nectar. I appreciate your additions to the "show".

RVICTOR cool now I can start the carving on another Wish List mug while posting things I made a short while back.

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When the big storm was due to hit our area on December 10th Dan and I prepared our yard so that nothing would blow over or away.

We even took our concrete tikis and put them on their sides on the ground.

After the storm we went to lift them all back in place and dang it, this one snapped in half. We'll try to repair it by first drilling a hole top and bottom and putting a dowel in place. Is there such a thing as cement glue?

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Hawaii is such a diverse landscape that there is even cactus. We've seen it. So in honor of Hawaii I've made a Cactus Body Bob.

I started by cutting out the shapes for the hands.

More detail.

I attached a hand and gave him a little

coconut mug to hold.

Now like the classic cactus statues of the past I attached his other hand/limb higher up

and gave that hand another little coconut mug to hole. Now he sat to firm up for a couple of days while in a plastic bag.

A cactus has a rounded head so I cast an ornament to use because it is hollow and

started to form the rounded lid. I smoothed the surface so I could add clay and not air bubbles.

I made the inside thicker first and

then I began to build up the clay on the top to the same thickness.

I checked out the size keeping in mind this clay is not as dry as the mug so it must be larger to start out.
Now this lid/top of the head is put into a big plastic bag with air so that it can slowly firm up.

Now I carved the little coconut mugs. In the Hawaiian language I carved Cactus on one and Body on the other.

Here I'm trying to figure out how I want to make the cactus thorns.

Now the lid/top of the head has firmed up and I'm carving to make it fit into the mug's body.

I added a hole to the top.

Bob not only has a lid he has thorns on his body.

Next I added them to the lid.

Now it is time to let him completely dry out so that I can fit the lid.

A couple of weeks later Bob is dry and I can see just how much clay to remove from the lid.

I used a sharp chisel and sand paper (I wore a mask) and carved it to fit.

Hopefully they will shrink the same amount in the kiln.

Side view.

I'll show a few more Tiki Bob's over the next few days while I get some photos going on Tyber Tikis Wish List Project.

Happy Holidays and Cheers, Wendy