Post #258415 by little lost tiki on Mon, Oct 2, 2006 10:38 AM

Aloha TC Ohana!
After seeing TikiShark's and Paipo's mind-blowing step-by-steps (just to name two),and because I'm home sick and bored,I thought I'd share a bit of the new one I'm working on!
Initial title-"the Land of Pele". It started off as a huge empty 4x4' canvas,blank and white for about 2 months,just sitting in the corner whispering Harassing statements like "C'mon boy! There must be SOMETHING you can paint on me!" and other phrases not suitable for TC...
Well, about last Tuesday, I decided to paint,but,not sure of a subject, went for an abstract background to see what would come of it! I used Winsor Newton inks on a wet canvas and just splashed around and had some fun and ruined yet another shirt!

Seeing I was in a tropical mood, i made some of the brushstrokes into palms.The warm reds, yellows, and oranges got me thinkin about Lava...
Here's a detail of the area that was so compelling....

After that, I smoked a cig and did a sketchbook study of JUST the color blockage to get a rough idea where I was gonna go with this....After that dried, I drew in the landscape, listening to where it wanted me to go.

After that, I began to slowly flesh out the trees and cliffs

The next evening ,I noticed some little jungle spirits that were not in the painting the night before!

Must have been the Menehunes because my ice tea was gone along with most of my smokes!
Anyways, they showed up, and were a delightful addition to the landscape, so I kept 'em!
Here's a little more detail on the lava pool/flow

and here's an extra close-up with more lava and some lighting on one of the jungle spirits. Can ya feel the heat?

The fun thing about this one is that I have a 60% awareness of where it's going, but have no idea how it's gonna end up! I'll try and recover and post more this week. Any suggestions or helpful comments may help steer this piece into a gentle harbor! Thanks for looking!