Showing posts with label carving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label carving. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Lil' African 'Dudes'

OK, last drawing from me for a little while (though it's been great to re-discover my drawing bug lately!) - some sweet wee African hair pins. I know they look a little evil but in real life they're very cute little wooden dudes... whack one of those through your messy up do eh?

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Tid-Bit Tiki

A few years ago I spent six months researching my Great Great Grandfather's collection of Maori artefacts for my final year dissertation at design school, and through the process I discovered that the Wanganui museum not only holds many of the items he collected during the late 1800's and early 1900's, but also some of his own attempts at carving tiki. I fell in love with all the intricate pieces of stone work, and have dabbled in representing their detail in my own way, only 100 years later, through drawing.
These are some of the attempts I've been making lately, I'm quite pleased with them I think!