Some of my art

[Kathryn]

Love the artwork! Keep it coming!

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Amazing! I especially liked the stone pipe

 

[ron4711]

Meaning, what do you mean ?

Well, the pictish warrior had his forehead painted blue with white designs. Is that a spiritual symbol or is he like the warrior of the night? This is a religious forum, so I thought you were sharing religious imagery featuring native Americans.

But please, don't feel like you have to write an essay about your artwork, I was just curious. I still enjoy the images.

Thanks.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I like the essays. It feels like a guided tour through a museum showcasing Native American history and way of life. It's interesting.

 

[Nashitheki]

Well, the pictish warrior had his forehead painted blue with white designs. Is that a spiritual symbol or is he like the warrior of the night? This is a religious forum, so I thought you were sharing religious imagery featuring native Americans.

But please, don't feel like you have to write an essay about your artwork, I was just curious. I still enjoy the images.

Thanks.

Aside from the tattoo(gadflies)on his arm and maybe the human teeth hanging from his neck, the rest is purely imagination.

His eyes came from an outlaw biker I once knew. I remember this look in his eyes in the dim barroom lights right before all hell broke loose. A kind of 'above fear look'.

 

[Nashitheki]

Nice work,what ceremony would this pipe be for.

Thanks. Stone and antler carving is rather enjoyable.

That pipe has never been used, mostly just hangs in it's doeskin pouch as home art.

In the past similar pipes were used in the 'duck in a Coleman dome tent, load up and pass it around ceremony' It twas a strange blending of ancient Scythian and American Indian ceremonial celebration. Sitting in a tight circle, filling the large stone bowl, offering it first to the four winds, blessing it with butane flame then passing in the direction of the sun's path across the sky. In short time, we would catch up with the altitude of our mountain camp.

Emerging through the zippered door flap in an elated state, we shared the Appalachian night with the friendliest of wild local spirits.

 

[painted wolf]

These are great!

Does antler stink when you work it like bone does? I hate having to carve bone because of the smell but wanted to try antler.

wa:do

 

[Nashitheki]

These are great!

Does antler stink when you work it like bone does? I hate having to carve bone because of the smell but wanted to try antler.

wa:do

When using power tools like a grinder, dremel or sander, I wear a surgeon's mask as one can sometimes get sick from breathing in the antler dust.

 

[Nashitheki]

Stone knives I knapped from native jasper and set into antler handles

 

[England my lionheart]

Stone knives I knapped from native jasper and set into antler handles

I like knapping flint,haven't done it for a long while,these are beautiful.

 

[Nashitheki]

"I like knapping flint,haven't done it for a long while"


More trial and error with me at this point and will never knap flint where people walk barefooted again.

Thanks for your kind response and it is a pleasure to meet another flint knapper.

 

[Moshe]

Wonderful , I like it

 

[Infinitum]

Why haven't I seen this thread before? I love your art! Keep us updated.

 

[Nashitheki]

My thanks.

Here is a walking stick I carved. Handle is antler capped off with tiger's eye and the inlaid arrowhead is carved from antler as well.

 

[Nashitheki]

Stone Age Fertility Goddess

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Watercolor

 

[Nashitheki]

Mongol Shaman

 

[Nashitheki]

Detail of Mongol Shaman.

Mauled almost to death by a bear, his journey began. Around his neck hangs the ear of an enemy shaman who did not heed a verbal warning.