Post #345004 by little lost tiki on Mon, Nov 19, 2007 7:03 PM

Hello Crew!
First...answers to your inquiries....
raves-thank you! somethin about those cannibal king lips!
i was gonna add some more detail to em but sometimes it's good to just leave things alone.
been doing that a lot more as the ideas for new paintings keep springing up...
I'm with you on lovin Clysdalle's skulls..no one else does em like he does!
Tabu! Thanks man! Your pieces would be the ones i would consider beauty...
mine's just frantic scribblings compared to the calm deliberate execution you display! Glad the flowers are freaking you out...i wanted something to emphasize the excitement
brought about by his Dance...a mysterious flame bursting forth to the stamps and grunts of
the Dancing king!
Chongo! Muchos Mahalos to YOU! I'm soooooo glad the poop thing came and went...You inquire about a back story on the King...still workin on it,but thinkin of incorporating him into the whole little lost tiki epic storybook...Just finished reading 64 pages on UMI the peasant king with his horn and giant friend,Maukaleole.....very cool,read a couple of others too and it struck me....why not pull out the ol' "riddle contest with the chief and the loser gets thrown in the oven" kinda storyline....
So that would mean his victims were those less capable of wit....
Speaking of which..that Searchers piece of yours is soooo Friggin Snazzy! You're just taking a theme you love and runnin with it! You're an inspiration man!
TikiShark! Brad! Thank ye kindly! It's an Ongoing Mutual Inspiration Pact....Your Turn!
Wondering and Anticipating your next masterpiece! YOU need to kick out a few 3x3's and 4x4's!
That would make some heads Esplode!
Now Hurry up with that danged Christmas Card!
Gotta Run! I gotta go paint some life-size Boogeymen on the Nursery walls!
Sneaks!
Funny...Chongo noticed the Roth meets Don Martin stylee toes in the first King painting...
Funny how influences from your youth seep in.. as for size.....GET A PICKUP TRUCK! I remember the days in my Datsun honeybee hauling pieces jam-packed in the car! One show i had to duck my head down because of canvases over me head! Until you can get a truck......make friends with people who OWN trucks.....they're much more likely to help you haul some paintings than help you move! Go Big-just use lighter surfaces than closet doors!
as for murals....did an 8x48 footer on a fence for the Ronald Reagan Federal building as part of a group artist project (i got the biggest area and best placement!)that was slowly dismantled and stolen under the cover of darkness as well as a 12 x 10 foot area for Ciao Trattoria restaurant and a hardcore political 8x12 foot one for the long beach tinderbox festival (which was blown off the roof of the transporting vehicle and scattered on the CA freeway....
So I kinda have 50/50 luck with these murals...the scale is quite fun and it's a great workout!

Progress on "the Journey" the Birth canvas....

Got the Heavenly Home almost finished..

Closeup....
I loooooove that big Meeting house/Hut!
That must be where the BIG GUY lives!

and popped some detail into the sun...

Also...Remember this ol' Cannibal Totem from months back?
Acrylic on canvas with paintpen in between the sealant coats...
Well, after finishing the Heaven part-i had a ciggie break and started to
look over at it and the fever took me...it was time!
Here's what i saw...
Never really satisfied with it...in fact i almost painted over it!
Was gonna do a long boatful of orongo birdmen...but alas!
Next looooong canvas!

Giving it the once-over and always up for a little challenge....
i approached with the intent to pop it up a bit-turn the volume up....and give it LIFE!
So.... here's what i got done in 7 solid hours!
TOP

MIDDLE

BOTTOM

and here's some details...
Skull stuffed with flowers....

Scary mouth and pug-nose...

Plumerias scattered about....

The bone tied to the nose....

the decorative lips and mouth...

a litle cowrie shell in the eye....

and the starting of a vine..

[ Edited by: little lost tiki 2007-11-20 08:36 ]