Varnish Make Pretty - Other Crafts

S Sneakytiki Tiki Socialite Boise, Idaho Joined: Mar 31, 2003 Posts: 1795	S Sneakytiki Posted posted on Wed, Mar 22, 2006 3:38 PM This is an image I'm working on for an illustrated page in a book of Maori Creation Stories. It is a story of how the god of the forest struggled to separate Mother Earth and Father Sky to create the world as we know it. I tried to make it look like some of the wood engraving prints I've done. Hopefully there will be more to come. Thanks. EDITED: This first post is going to become a gallery for finished pieces so you don't have to go through the thread to find finished Tiki items, the non tiki stuff won't be in this gallery either. Thank you Woofmutt for suggesting the first page be a gallery of finished pieces. Works are roughly in order so hopefully the viewer will see some sort of progression in my work/skills. GALLERY: Here is my first ever painting done in 2003 in a very flat style, I had 2 old tubes of acrylic brown and yellow, a sharpie marker and a piece of plywood scrap. I didn't paint again for a year, then I finally got some oil paints and got going again.. The painting took about 1/2 hr. I spent alot of time on the elaborate pictograms of the border based on imagination, mid century dinnerware, Oceanic art and petroglyphs, then about a week later I "rediscovered" rongo rongo glyphs I'd seen before. Doh! I guess that would be more apropo, oh well! angry tiki with a glitter glue atomic symbol. happy tiki (with jewel eyes) Here is a picture of the "Ritual of the Savage" LP cover/ "The Palms" menu cover. I did this a couple years back.. I only slightly adjusted the proportions of the mask/drum and added a tiki hut A-frame in the distance, as I wanted it to read more like "The Palms", then the menu with only the mask/drum. Appropriately I used the light logic/shadows off of a picture of an american hotel front tiki A frame rather than a real S. Pacific one. The drawing is done in pastel on black paper. I left space underneath the A frame and palms to put my bar name or "The Palms" or someone else's bar name as I wasn't sure what the pic. was destined to be. Again thank u for being patient with the blurry pix. I know the photography needs serious work... Here is a quick sketch I did in the car of the last days of the midcentury tiki. Shag inspired--Tiki meets disco bachelor, haha! Tiki mask on midcentury stone wall. Here are my best paintings ever!-- ha ha... found white lil chalkwear fruit at the thrift for 49 cents ea.. What do u do with broken dollar tree tikis? If the feet are broken off u can glue them back on, or bury them waist deep in a plant pot or garden, put them in an aquarium with the sharp parts buried in gravel, make a crazy assemblage piece out of a dozen or so, or go back to the dollar store for a frame, remove glass, put on burlap or whatever for background, and file feet so it looks like tiki is emerging from the back of the picture. Not anything special, but I just can't throw away this poor lil' Ki'i. So make a rice steamer shelf, and put more clutter on it... Here is a detail of one of my wood dish/ acrylic paint/ cowry shell/ dentalium shell/ clam shell/ bike reflector/ shadow box tiki assemblages. Here is a picture of one of 2 fishing float lanterns I made recently; Here is anuthuh pik-sure-- I need to take sum when it's dark out, lots of tikified lites recently went up in heyah up in heeyah! and with the lights out, sunshine coming in tho... Shield shelf Another use for dollartree trash baskets.. Lamp shades! Found this green vintage Chinese girl lamp, painted the tiny chip on her and put a dollartree basket to good use. with lamp on (sorry very cheap camera). RETRO-tongan tiki,inspired by Flora and SHAG: Life model: Another fishing float I swaggered into a light. . a couplah decent pix of Angry tiki Happy tiki wooden dish. I put way too much walnut oil in my paints for this piece so it turned out kinda gestural as it was a runny mess, still fun tho! Moai- Miro:gouache Coloring sheet: Here is a collagraph hand print I made using a piece of a hula skirt to create textures. Ula Nifo necklace: Easter Isle painting trilogy: New addition to the series: Sneakitized Moai: BirdMan. Oil canvas, real feathers. Birdman, acrylic, watercolor, tempera, resin, paper, canvas: 4' by 3' stretched canvas. The "V" shaped bone is the bird's lower jaw bone. Closeup... weird angle Closeup, the bird man white is "stamped" on in gesso. There are several small collaged elements glued on this painting, cut outs of my paintings and these 3-D resin bird claws. shelves, about 20" diameter. The first painting is a New Guinea Toucan Sepik River style chattin' it up with his cuz from the Tsimshian people of coastal NW Canada. New Guinea Witch Dr. acrylic painting: Witch Dr. shape-shifts into Toucan in this second painting. Toucans and Flying foxes (a fruit bat) are head hunter totems cuz the fruit they pick is seen as taking a "head trophy" from a tree. The Witch Dr's left eye from the last painting becumz the toucan nostril in this painting, or both paintings can be viewed abstractly. Here is Toucan again with his buddy from the Tsimshian nation. The totem pole figure has had alot of white paint and details added since my last pic. of this piece. Gouache and acrylic: Octo-tiki-Tane: Moai: [ Edited by: Sneakytiki 2008-07-16 13:40 ] [ Edited by: Sneakytiki 2008-10-16 15:56 ] [ Edited by: Sneakytiki 2008-10-16 15:57 ] [ Edited by: Sneakytiki 2008-10-27 08:49 ] [ Edited by: Sneakytiki 2008-11-17 07:27 ] [ Edited by: Sneakytiki 2008-11-18 08:21 ] [ Edited by: Sneakytiki 2008-11-19 07:12 ] [ Edited by: Sneakytiki 2008-11-20 10:09 ] [ Edited by: Sneakytiki 2008-11-21 07:56 ] [ Edited by: sneakytiki 2008-11-22 02:08 ] [ Edited by: Sneakytiki 2008-12-01 14:51 ] [ Edited by: Sneakytiki 2008-12-04 12:11 ]

This is an image I'm working on for an illustrated page in a book of Maori Creation Stories. It is a story of how the god of the forest struggled to separate Mother Earth and Father Sky to create the world as we know it. I tried to make it look like some of the wood engraving prints I've done.

Hopefully there will be more to come. Thanks.

EDITED: This first post is going to become a gallery for finished pieces so you don't have to go through the thread to find finished Tiki items, the non tiki stuff won't be in this gallery either. Thank you Woofmutt for suggesting the first page be a gallery of finished pieces. Works are roughly in order so hopefully the viewer will see some sort of progression in my work/skills.

GALLERY:

Here is my first ever painting done in 2003 in a very flat style, I had 2 old tubes of acrylic brown and yellow, a sharpie marker and a piece of plywood scrap. I didn't paint again for a year, then I finally got some oil paints and got going again.. The painting took about 1/2 hr. I spent alot of time on the elaborate pictograms of the border based on imagination, mid century dinnerware, Oceanic art and petroglyphs, then about a week later I "rediscovered" rongo rongo glyphs I'd seen before. Doh! I guess that would be more apropo, oh well!

angry tiki with a glitter glue atomic symbol.

happy tiki (with jewel eyes)

Here is a picture of the "Ritual of the Savage" LP cover/ "The Palms" menu cover. I did this a couple years back..
I only slightly adjusted the proportions of the mask/drum and added a tiki hut A-frame in the distance, as I wanted it to read more like "The Palms", then the menu with only the mask/drum.
Appropriately I used the light logic/shadows off of a picture of an american hotel front tiki A frame rather than a real S. Pacific one.
The drawing is done in pastel on black paper. I left space underneath the A frame and palms to put my bar name or "The Palms" or someone else's bar name as I wasn't sure what the pic. was destined to be.
Again thank u for being patient with the blurry pix. I know the photography needs serious work...

Here is a quick sketch I did in the car of the last days of the midcentury tiki. Shag inspired--Tiki meets disco bachelor, haha!

Tiki mask on midcentury stone wall.

Here are my best paintings ever!-- ha ha... found white lil chalkwear fruit at the thrift for 49 cents ea..

What do u do with broken dollar tree tikis? If the feet are broken off u can glue them back on, or bury them waist deep in a plant pot or garden, put them in an aquarium with the sharp parts buried in gravel, make a crazy assemblage piece out of a dozen or so, or go back to the dollar store for a frame, remove glass, put on burlap or whatever for background, and file feet so it looks like tiki is emerging from the back of the picture. Not anything special, but I just can't throw away this poor lil' Ki'i.

So make a rice steamer shelf, and put more clutter on it...

Here is a detail of one of my wood dish/ acrylic paint/ cowry shell/ dentalium shell/ clam shell/ bike reflector/ shadow box tiki assemblages.

Here is a picture of one of 2 fishing float lanterns I made recently;

Here is anuthuh pik-sure-- I need to take sum when it's dark out, lots of tikified lites recently went up in heyah up in heeyah!

and with the lights out, sunshine coming in tho...

Shield shelf

Another use for dollartree trash baskets.. Lamp shades!

Found this green vintage Chinese girl lamp, painted the tiny chip on her and put a dollartree basket to good use.

with lamp on (sorry very cheap camera).

RETRO-tongan tiki,inspired by Flora and SHAG:

Life model:

Another fishing float I swaggered into a light.

a couplah decent pix of Angry tiki Happy tiki wooden dish.

I put way too much walnut oil in my paints for this piece so it turned out kinda gestural as it was a runny mess, still fun tho!

Moai- Miro:gouache

Coloring sheet:

Here is a collagraph hand print I made using a piece of a hula skirt to create textures.

Ula Nifo necklace:

Easter Isle painting trilogy:

New addition to the series: Sneakitized Moai:

BirdMan. Oil canvas, real feathers.

Birdman, acrylic, watercolor, tempera, resin, paper, canvas:
4' by 3' stretched canvas.

The "V" shaped bone is the bird's lower jaw bone.

Closeup... weird angle

Closeup, the bird man white is "stamped" on in gesso.

There are several small collaged elements glued on this painting, cut outs of my paintings and these 3-D resin bird claws.

shelves, about 20" diameter.

The first painting is a New Guinea Toucan Sepik River style chattin' it up with his cuz from the Tsimshian people of coastal NW Canada.

New Guinea Witch Dr. acrylic painting:

Witch Dr. shape-shifts into Toucan in this second painting. Toucans and Flying foxes (a fruit bat) are head hunter totems cuz the fruit they pick is seen as taking a "head trophy" from a tree. The Witch Dr's left eye from the last painting becumz the toucan nostril in this painting, or both paintings can be viewed abstractly.

Here is Toucan again with his buddy from the Tsimshian nation. The totem pole figure has had alot of white paint and details added since my last pic. of this piece.