Post #348656 by little lost tiki on Mon, Dec 10, 2007 12:12 AM

Hello fellow travellers!
Howawya?
Got to go tot the Tonga hut last night and had a HOOT! All the love and the laughs!
Very Rejuvenating.....Congrats to Suzy and Ernie/Dave/Holden/Ben on the killer mug! And Adriana and Crazy Al's work was off the hook as always! And he had on the coolest red pants on EARTH! TikiWineBear's pendants were glistening and purdy and badland beads was rockin some rad product! And i got the new Tiki magazine! ZING!
Anyways i left around 10:45 last night cause today was the day for final preps for the show...get it all done the weekend before and chill the rest of the week....take a night off...hang the show on tuesday and chill til Saturday....anyways,got all the pricetags done and some last minute finishing touches...
powered on thursday and friday and made a bunch of pieces for the show,so strap in......
LOL Tiki-great idea about the "Buy it now" buttons...Somebody get hanford on that! Glad you enjoy the woodburnings...i tried to apply my regular drawing style to it...I used to do a lot of hatching marks for shadows and depth (as i kid i was fascinated by Durer and Dore....what a geek!)and i guess that was the most natural approach for this new medium! Thanks again for the happy! I'll be sure to do more of the woodburning as soon as the smoke clears from the 3 kings show! :lol:
Babs!
"using found objects" sounds so much more valid than "Sprucing up old junk found and donated by friends"...Besides the Clys and meself,Big Toe also likes to paint on battered up old stuff! There's always a challenge and delight in transforming this stuff into BRAND NEW JUNK! and something completely different! Mahalos!
IKI!-Thank you my artist friend! Someday our paths will collide and we will PARTAY like fine artists!(ie: geek out and excitedly discuss the Fauves...)
Clarita-Gracias! Wish you and Sneaky both could be at the show..In fact, i wish the whole TC art community could attend...What a party and honor that would be! i'm really happy that you and a bunch of other folks dig the woodburning...I will most certsinly delve into this new medium and push it to it's creative limit!
Paipo! Always a pleasure to have you visit! And really stoked you groove on the "Te arawa Tiki"- the blue shadow on there was to kind give it an otherworldly, exotic feel...i guess it kinda worked1 Thank you mate!
Hodadhank-thanks muchos man! Great visiting your shop when the wife and i were down in San diego!
well. here's those new pieces i kicked out on Thursday and Friday....
these first 2 monkeypod bowls were painted over because the designs weren't doin it for me....
So here they are!
"Smiling Face"


I really like the blue of this one...:)
A lotta these won't have the titles because they're quite long ..
for example "figure inspired by a malu board (sawos tribe-png)" and after typing up 92 pricetags i get my East Sepik Canoe prow shield mixed up with a Purari tribe PNG Ancestor Board....so if the title doesn't come to me whilst typing,i'll just moveon.org!
next piece...not so tiki..."King seahorse"

Remember this piece? "Land of the waterfalls"-finally finished dremelling a frame for it...

close-up

finished this little wee "happy hut" with a bamboo ben frame!
Go buy one of his mugs-Now!
"Palms"

Here's my absolute favorite of the hour!
"Running Marquesan"

"Search for the King"

Not really tiki,but a purdy piece i just wanted to share...
finally finished it! took long enough...
Close-ups



"the Apparition"

Also finally finished the edges of "the festival" and will have this in the 3 kings show...

"the king's Voyage"

and finally, the one i almost didn't do....
the one i almost gave up on.....
"Tiki Platter"
Great wood color-great grooves to catch all the juices
beautiful shape....
Originally i had developed this,but it didn't sit right...

it was a turkey platter-teakwood-from one of Squid's thrift excavations
so I really wanted to make something that would please the master.......
So i added some ZAZZ to it!

When approaching the pallette i decided to go with the wood instead of fighting it,so i dusted down the brights and used a dark sepia for the blackline....
I'm very stoked with this one....
also very sad....cause i know some bassard's gonna buy it and steal it from me forever! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
here's some close-ups....




well, that's it! it's been a loong day! i gotta hit the hay! werd...