Little lost Tiki's Art Chronicles and Stuffs! Page 70!A brief Return,BUT! Some new pieces to Delight YOU!!! - Other Crafts

LLT little lost tiki Tiki Socialite Orange,CA-right near the Circle! Joined: Jun 12, 2006 Posts: 7763	LLT little lost tiki Posted posted on Sat, Jan 13, 2007 6:05 PM Aloha friends and fellow artists! went on a TANGATA MANU jag on friday! Finished 3 paintings,one semi-done, and about 15 sketchbook drawings of this easter island/orongo Birdman that shows up carved on the rocks around there! Whew! Coffee is my soulmate!I was thinking about these Birdman for quite a while lately.Were they real? Thank Heaven for genetic manipulation! Someday we may compete for a job with REAL LIVE BIRDMEN created by the Pentagon! Scholars think that the Birdman may have represented Makemake-their creator god,and everyone generally agrees with the fact that the bird referenced for these carvings was the Makohe, or Frigate Bird... With that information given out, I will now build the suspense and answer some of your questions... Tama- Thank you man! Your enthusiasm and joy shines thru the lines you write! I plan on showing the surfboard a few times,and then offering it up for sale at a one-man or tiki-appropriate show in the future! Right now, it's resting with all of it's new friends at the Cave... I like "Surf-borg" ,still not sure on the other side yet...I kind of want to communicate the natural v.s artificial make-up of the two sides... The carving was real fun! I'm just gonna take baby seps with it as my time is limited,but it's a lil' bit easier than I thought! Especially after doing an initial practice run on laminated particle board! Yikes! After that Trial by Fire, the regular wood was very friendly! Did a lil' bit of Lino stuff over the years and so, instead of just chewin and groovin out the concave areas, I thought, Hmmmmmm why not try for that look...and TaDa! It really does fit in with the rest of the work and doesn't seem out of place,so i'm stoked! Thanks for being such a nice carver! When you visit Paipo,please give him and his family a big hug for me! Also, say "Hello!" to my "Little Celebration" painting and tell it that daddy misses it, but this new family will love it just as much as I do! Thank you Hewey! Sorry I haven't e-mailed that print yet to TikiRacer,but , as you will see, I had a TANGATA MANU jag in full effect! Thanks for the props on the dremelling! It's kinda like holding a big fat pencil or paintbrush,so I just went for it like a retard and it worked! Glad you like it! Polynesiac! Man! That reminds me, I gotta check out your thread,haven't been there in a couple of weeks! I wonder what new genius carvings you have up your sleeve? I'm still blown away by the 2 carvings you brought to the Tonga Hut last month! As you're gonna see, I declined painting the finished carving,Babysteps...The finished piece looked finished, so I'm keeping it. But! I do have another panel just like this that I may try some painting on! Don't have ANY shows planned and written in stone, but I think this month I'm gonna look over the calendar and see what's up. I know I have 2 potential group shows, but again, they're not written in stone! One one-man show a year is gnarly enough! Especially when I have anywhere between 50-150 pieces per! Again! Thank you all! You guys really know how to lift an artist up into Happyland! Before the photos...if you haven't seen the new glaze on my Tiki Farm mugs please go to... http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=20932&forum=12&start=60&68 And now....ladies and gents... "Praying Tangata Manu" As you can see, I went over the raised areas of wood and made them darker, plus did the gouache painting in the middle panel! Here's a blurry detail of my pseudo lino-cut look on the top... Here's the whole painting part of the piece! This one almost painted itself! When I paint, I use the same basic formula of light and shading with graphic lines, but I usually paint it over a ground with some of the lighting already sketched in and here's one last close-up detail... Minor adjustments and hanging wire notwithstanding, it's pretty much done! On to the next painting! Here's one of those 15 studies.. It's called "Mother and Child"... and here's the painting I did based on it! Here's another study turned painting! It's called "the Watchful Eye" and here's the painting! Man! friday was like a blur of phonecalls,movies,and painting ( and a lovely 1/2 hour nap after lunch!!! Before I knew it, it was 12:30 am! And I arrived there 8:00 am Friday morn! Time flys when you're makin' art! Here's the last one...a study for "the Greeting"... Here's the almost finished piece, I may need about 2-4 more hours on it with some gold metallic gouache to give it some mana! and here's a detail of the heads....this one was sumi-ink pen on gesso/gouache ground with gouache coloring... That's it for now! thanks for gazing and hopefully enjoying! Your humble servant, Kinny

Aloha friends and fellow artists!
went on a TANGATA MANU jag on friday! Finished 3 paintings,one semi-done, and about 15 sketchbook drawings of this easter island/orongo Birdman that shows up carved on the rocks around there! Whew! Coffee is my soulmate!I was thinking about these Birdman for quite a while lately.Were they real? Thank Heaven for genetic manipulation! Someday we may compete for a job with REAL LIVE BIRDMEN created by the Pentagon! Scholars think that the Birdman may have represented Makemake-their creator god,and everyone generally agrees with the fact that the bird referenced for these carvings was the Makohe, or Frigate Bird...
With that information given out, I will now build the suspense and answer some of your questions...
Tama-
Thank you man! Your enthusiasm and joy shines thru the lines you write! I plan on showing the surfboard a few times,and then offering it up for sale at a one-man or tiki-appropriate show in the future! Right now, it's resting with all of it's new friends at the Cave... I like "Surf-borg" ,still not sure on the other side yet...I kind of want to communicate the natural v.s artificial make-up of the two sides...
The carving was real fun! I'm just gonna take baby seps with it as my time is limited,but it's a lil' bit easier than I thought! Especially after doing an initial practice run on laminated particle board! Yikes! After that Trial by Fire, the regular wood was very friendly! Did a lil' bit of Lino stuff over the years and so, instead of just chewin and groovin out the concave areas, I thought, Hmmmmmm why not try for that look...and TaDa! It really does fit in with the rest of the work and doesn't seem out of place,so i'm stoked! Thanks for being such a nice carver! When you visit Paipo,please give him and his family a big hug for me! Also, say "Hello!" to my "Little Celebration" painting and tell it that daddy misses it, but this new family will love it just as much as I do!
Thank you Hewey!
Sorry I haven't e-mailed that print yet to TikiRacer,but , as you will see, I had a TANGATA MANU jag in full effect! Thanks for the props on the dremelling! It's kinda like holding a big fat pencil or paintbrush,so I just went for it like a retard and it worked! Glad you like it!
Polynesiac!
Man! That reminds me, I gotta check out your thread,haven't been there in a couple of weeks! I wonder what new genius carvings you have up your sleeve? I'm still blown away by the 2 carvings you brought to the Tonga Hut last month! As you're gonna see, I declined painting the finished carving,Babysteps...The finished piece looked finished, so I'm keeping it. But! I do have another panel just like this that I may try some painting on! Don't have ANY shows planned and written in stone, but I think this month I'm gonna look over the calendar and see what's up. I know I have 2 potential group shows, but again, they're not written in stone! One one-man show a year is gnarly enough! Especially when I have anywhere between 50-150 pieces per!
Again! Thank you all! You guys really know how to lift an artist up into Happyland! Before the photos...if you haven't seen the new glaze on my Tiki Farm mugs please go to...
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=20932&forum=12&start=60&68
And now....ladies and gents... "Praying Tangata Manu"

As you can see, I went over the raised areas of wood and made them darker, plus did the gouache painting in the middle panel!
Here's a blurry detail of my pseudo lino-cut look on the top...

Here's the whole painting part of the piece! This one almost painted itself! When I paint, I use the same basic formula of light and shading with graphic lines, but I usually paint it over a ground with some of the lighting already sketched in

and here's one last close-up detail...

Minor adjustments and hanging wire notwithstanding, it's pretty much done!
On to the next painting!
Here's one of those 15 studies.. It's called "Mother and Child"...

and here's the painting I did based on it!

Here's another study turned painting! It's called "the Watchful Eye"

and here's the painting!

Man! friday was like a blur of phonecalls,movies,and painting ( and a lovely 1/2 hour nap after lunch!!! Before I knew it, it was 12:30 am! And I arrived there 8:00 am Friday morn! Time flys when you're makin' art!
Here's the last one...a study for "the Greeting"...

Here's the almost finished piece, I may need about 2-4 more hours on it with some gold metallic gouache to give it some mana!

and here's a detail of the heads....this one was sumi-ink pen on gesso/gouache ground with gouache coloring...

That's it for now! thanks for gazing and hopefully enjoying!
Your humble servant,
Kinny

Post #278699 by little lost tiki on Sat, Jan 13, 2007 6:05 PM