^ Thanks, I've been working hard on my collection and display.
Here's some more Adventureland
This is a piece I've been working on inspired by the tiki babies from the garden pre-show at Disneyland, specifically the one seen here:
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This has always been my favorite of the tiki baby designs seen at DIsneyland. For anyone unfamiliar, they descend from the tree "Tangaroa" during the pre-show in the garden, they can't be seen other than for the brief 20 seconds or so that they are lowered during the show. Though if you know where to look, they can be spotted hanging around in other areas around the Tiki Room. I decided to make the face of this one as a wall-hanging tiki mask.
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I'm don't have a ton of experience with sculpting, molding, and casting, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
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This was my first attempt at casting and painting, the first piece was just cast in plaster of paris since that's what I had on hand and it was just to practice painting anyway.
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Here are two of my later attempts. They're cast in hydrocal, I may use resin at some point. Before starting these I had no real painting experience so it was a real trial and error kind of thing, but I've gotten it down fairly well now that I've figured out what does and doesn't work for me. There's a ton of pattern and color variations to play around with so these will keep me busy for some time to come. I've got more projects planned that I'll be starting on soon, and I'll probably do the rest of the tiki babies as wall-hanging masks at some point.
More soon.