Tiki Guys

It's been a long time since my last post due to some crunch time at work and the Eastside Culture Crawl which is an awesome 3day art show. We had over 800 people through Octopus Studio! You can check out the blog here: http://octopusstudios.blogspot.com/

I've been teaching jewellry classes there and been working on some sculptures for myself.
One of my project was some life-size Tiki guys for the Action Pants studio. I've taken some picture of the work in process so check it out:



To start, I got a large black and white printout of a Tiki Guy by the artist Shag and then transfered the image on to 3" thick styrofoam.

I then cut out the outer form with a spirial blade in a jewelers saw frame.


















From there, I routered out the different levels of relief and destressed the styrofoam to look like old wood with an hobby knife.

I then did a base coat with a mid-color in this case tan then gave the whole thing a wash with a dark green. After that was all dry I dry-brushed the whole thing with a lighter tan and added black to the deepest relief areas to add depth.

The finished product!