Post #321831 by little lost tiki on Sun, Jul 29, 2007 7:40 PM

Aloha Dear Friends!
Well, Funtime is over and it's time for me to get krack-a-lackin on the Tiki magazine Art show pieces and my 4-panel Journey piece,so don't stop believing! (that was a Journey joke...uh...eh...)
Lots of goodies to share this week so first i'll do the usual replies then we'll get right into it.....
ravenne-Mahalo! it IS REALLY trippy in person...the glow illuminates the actual piece a bit...something that gets lost in the pixels...
teaKS!-true!true! a piece that functions both day and night! HiHo! I'll kayak to that!
Boris!-gracias! my theory is that teaKs was on some Top Secret Kayak trip to the Sepik river to his Secret Spot,where he rules the natives with a clenched bloody fist of shrunken heads! Your theory probably holds more water,so to speak! joshKAYAK!
Bullet- :) x100! "Cannibal Island will be on the way to your home early this week! Listen for the Drums!
Paipo- :lol: my King Okloe waterpipe DOES resemble a sculpture!
Jonesy-Thanks! I'm floating in a most peculiar way! :lol:
hewey!-there's 2 types of glow in the dark i use...Tulip brand Glow in the Dark Dimensional Fabric Paint in the "natural glow" color and Scribbles brand 3-D paint in the "natural" glow in the dark color.(they also have green & orange and yellow i think,if you want gradations in color as they all look ALMOST the same except for intensity...the Tulip stuff glows off! It's the brightest of the batch! Practice with it first,as it's like icing a cake! And watch your elbows as it smears/takes a few hours to dry....Have fun!
frostiki -thank you! I'm gonna do some bigger old etching style pics of chiefs and maybe famous heroes from Tikiland!
GROG-don't lick glow in the dark paint! It's non-toxic! Stick with lead paint chips!
Clarita-Gracias Tiki Friend!Have you ever thought of glow in the dark candles! They're so beautiful that if they were glow in the dark,you wouldn't have to light them and could keep them around forever!
TikiShark-Hey Brad! Great talkin to you today! Your tales of alien suits and the glow in the dark hawaiian floral shirt are hilarious and enlightening! 'Tiki Shark Speed"-prolly not one painting every 6 months, but more quality and less quantity....slow and steady wins the race! I'll keep a slower than usual pace,but nothing that would affect the earth's rotation or anything! Ditto on the wanting to see what you come up with for the November show!
Whew! This typing can really tire ya out!
Anyways.....first we're gonna have a little fun....something different!
I got a few kudos and inquiries about the shirt i wore to the Big Ol Tiki Bash (not the Lynyrd Skynyrd one-the one with tikis on it!silly gooses!) Anyways, it was a woven shirt print i had designed while doin the art director thing at Hawaiian Island Creations..i worked there from about 95-2002 doin tees/wovens/boardshorts/graphics etc.Well, seeing as i had a BRAND NEW Pegboard, i thought "why not share some of the old shirts with the Ohana?" So here goes....
First shirt inspired by a certain book on Oceanic Arts book(the title eludes me and I'm too lazy to march out to the studio and check)
Here's the front

Back

Detail

the next one was knocked off an old vintage 70's print.We took the flavor and style and a few of the motifs and built new stuff around it ....
Front

Back

Detail

the next one was inspired after reading hunter S. Thompson's "the Curse of Lono" illustrated by Ralph Steadman-the messiest genius on earth!
I did each of the tikis and tapa designs separately and scanned and arranged em on the MAC!
Front

Back

Detail

Here's a Thai/Bali/indo inspired one! This was printed on a natural barkcloth with navy and a gold metallic ink,so the details have a weathered,regal feel...real pimpin so to speak! not really! it just sounded funny!
Front

Detail of front "lion tail" motif

We engineered the back,here's the top middle back

there's some dragons and even Garuda makes an appearance!

Here's the bottom

and here's some details of the dragons,just because they turned out Wham-a-zam!

Rawr!

Here's another engineered woven with Bali Dancers on it!
front

Back

Bottom trim

detail

and the other colorway!

hope you enjoyed that!
I also worked on a turkey serving tray from Squid!
it's renamed "Cannibal Serving Dish"

those grooves are to catch the juices and blood-filling the wood full of powerful Turkey Thanksgiving mana i guess!
Detail

Well, I've also been working on that Journey commission too,but I'll post those later and let y'all digest this crap! Thanks again fer comin by! :)