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Rounding off my first year of Tiki carving |
Tiki Russ
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Feb 02, 2010
Posts: 37
From: OK/FL
|  Posted: 2011-06-29 12:30 pm Permalink
Thanks, hopefully he can survive the neighborhood he's going to!
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pjc5150
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 1618
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2011-07-02 8:43 pm Permalink
well, at least now I know why you went so thin on the headdress...
...you had to stick a mailbox in there!
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Tiki Russ
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Feb 02, 2010
Posts: 37
From: OK/FL
| Posted: 2011-07-08 12:02 pm Permalink
Just installed the mailbox today. Very happy with the results as are the new owners and I beat the rain!
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NIxxon
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Dec 22, 2010
Posts: 489 | Posted: 2011-07-08 1:42 pm Permalink
Very Cool! That turned out great...I'm sure the mail man will get a kick out of it as well 
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Tiki Russ
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Feb 02, 2010
Posts: 37
From: OK/FL
| Posted: 2012-09-04 09:26 am Permalink
Been a while since I've been on here, but here's a couple new pieces and some old ones.
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pjc5150
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 1618
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2012-09-04 10:29 am Permalink
nice!
I like 'em.
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hang10tiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 18, 2010
Posts: 1970
From: Las Vegas
| Posted: 2012-09-04 3:33 pm Permalink
Way cool
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Captain Jack
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 01, 2010
Posts: 342
From: Menifee, California
| Posted: 2012-09-05 11:08 am Permalink
a GREEN Marq! Very nice!
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Trailerpark Tiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 27, 2010
Posts: 321
From: Las Vegas
| Posted: 2012-10-16 10:06 am Permalink
I'm digging your tikis. Very cool style and creative colors. I am just starting carving and draw inspiration from you and your carvings. Like you said, we all have influences and it is a combination of those influences and our own personal likes that make up each individual styles. I am very impressed with your fingers and toes (on the tikis, that is). Hell, I don't think I can draw those let alone carve them. But after seeing yours, I sure will try! Aloha
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Cljha
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Dec 11, 2010
Posts: 53
From: Earth
| Posted: 2012-10-16 12:20 pm Permalink
Cool work, nice colours. I dig your finishes
Keep it up
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Tiki Russ
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Feb 02, 2010
Posts: 37
From: OK/FL
| Posted: 2012-10-17 09:02 am Permalink
Thanks everybody, working on a lot of new pieces. Hope to get some pics up soon.
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Tiki Russ
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Feb 02, 2010
Posts: 37
From: OK/FL
| Posted: 2012-10-17 09:08 am Permalink
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On 2012-10-16 10:06, Trailerpark Tiki wrote:
I'm digging your tikis. Very cool style and creative colors. I am just starting carving and draw inspiration from you and your carvings. Like you said, we all have influences and it is a combination of those influences and our own personal likes that make up each individual styles. I am very impressed with your fingers and toes (on the tikis, that is). Hell, I don't think I can draw those let alone carve them. But after seeing yours, I sure will try! Aloha
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I appreciate your comments and hope to see a lot more Tikis from the Trailerpark! Keep at it, you've got a nice start going!!
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TheBigT
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 1155
From: Fabulous Houston
| Posted: 2012-10-17 11:21 am Permalink
Let's have those pics! Love the mailbox!
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CrazyCapizzi
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Oct 01, 2012
Posts: 149
From: Cocoa Beach
| Posted: 2012-10-18 07:05 am Permalink
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On 2011-06-25 22:00, canyonlaketiki wrote:
I use to love to visit this site! Benzart,Mai Tiki,Crazy Al and the rest of the fine bunch of carvers that I havent mentioned.They are, and will continue to inspire me. But How do you expect these pioneers of carving to keep giving us inspiration and boost our spirits with their words of wisdom when their work is getting copied! Dude get your own style! You have copied enough, It is past flattery now! I cant believe no one else has called you out on it. Lets see some originals. You obviously have talent,Show it. My .02c, TikiStan
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This is why I hate forums.
Keep doing your thing, style is a work in progress. every time you carve you will find something about a carved feature you love. eventually you will build up a whole bag of favorite features and incorporate it into one carving. This is when your style is born! We all startd because we saw a tiki somewhere and thought to ourself... COOL, I bet I could do that! Tikis date back way before any one on this forum, So I guess we are all copy cats.
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pjc5150
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 1618
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2012-10-18 09:54 am Permalink
well, let's not blur the line between doing traditional tikis that have been interpreted by thousands of different carvers over the centuries, and copying an individual artist's style over and over again and calling it your own.
One is traditional art, and the other is plagiarism, plain and simple.
That being said I don't really think that's what was happening here. To a certain degree we all emulate the artists that influence us...but at some point as artists we have to kind of "leave the nest" and develop our own style. All part of the progression...
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