The Garden of Kama - Incoming!

[Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye]

As one of my projects for 2012 I have started the "Garden of Kama", a sort of fantasy India, Tibet, Burma, Cambodia (and farther east.) The name comes from a book of poems that I saw profiled on the "Golden Age Comic Book Stories" blog.

http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Garden%20of%20Kama

This illustration, in particular, I rather liked and am taking it as inspiration for this project:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OxlsWG7p7mw/TjdOGDvA2KI/AAAAAAABUa8/gUaHnNQbPUA/s1600/02_gardenkama_byamshaw_frontis.jpg

Andrew May is helping out with the sculpting and has been doing some Mara, which are demons. He has also got me hooked on Tibetan sacred art, which has some pretty funky (and gruesome) aspects.

I haven't thought this out in too much detail yet - though things are starting to coalesce...

http://lohwand.blogspot.com/search/label/Garden%20of%20Kama

[Mason]

Sounds very interesting and very different to most settings!

Will be watching this with interest...

[Christian]

YES!!!! Those sculpts are great! This looks very, very interesting. Will those Mara be available to the public?

[Pentaro]

Great sculps, much more interesting than the usual western stuff.

[argsilverson]

Very interesting!

I would also like to see in miniatures some of the dancing(?) ladies and the parrot flying couple, too.
nice sculp of the mara!

[DeafNala]

If the background material & the FINE sculpts by our own ubertalented Andrew are any indication, it looks like you face a VERY interesting project underway. I, for one, will follow your progress with keen interest.

[Steve F]

Nice.   Always good to see someone breaking new ground, and those are fine-looking sculpts.

[Smith]

VERY interesting. I'd love to get into some of this kind of gaming – they seem like a natural accompaniament to many things from weird Vietnam to sraight-out fantasy.

Would also love to see Penanggalan (Krasue or Ap in Thai), Naga and Rakshasa further down the line.

Let us know when the Mara are available to buy!

[Faber]

very interesting project! Original idea. It will be interesting to see how it developes... 

[DonVoss]

That looks very interesting to me. Great sculpts, and a very cool, innovative setting...

DV

[Bloodsbane]

That is insanely cool. Awesome art and awesome start on the sculpts. The faces especially are excuisite!

[Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye]

VERY interesting. I'd love to get into some of this kind of gaming – they seem like a natural accompaniament to many things from weird Vietnam to sraight-out fantasy.

Would also love to see Penanggalan (Krasue or Ap in Thai), Naga and Rakshasa further down the line.

Let us know when the Mara are available to buy!

Will have to look up the Penanggalan - don't recognize that.

Yes to Naga and Rakshasa, though you realize that the latter are not really the "tigermen" as portrayed in D&D?

Also: Garuda, and others...

http://www.google.ca/search?um=1&hl=en&biw=1024&bih=600&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=garuda&oq=garuda&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=2141l3110l0l4016l5l5l0l0l0l0l63l311l5l5l0

[tomogui]

Really exciting stuff! Tibetan/Indian myth is largely overlooked in gaming, and those Mara sculpts look utterly fantastic. Great for the older/weirder Buddhist Japanese deities too. Let us know when they're available.

[Smith]

Will have to look up the Penanggalan - don't recognize that.

Stone Circle did a couple for Chinatown a ways back, but you can't get them for love nor money these days.

Yes to Naga and Rakshasa, though you realize that the latter are not really the "tigermen" as portrayed in D&D?

Most definitely! 

[Steve F]

Stone Circle did a couple for Chinatown a ways back, but you can't get them for love nor money these days.

Gateshead Gaming should now have several, since I only ever painted one and have just sold off my unpainted lead mountain to them.



It's from Malayan folklore.