Need subjects for velvet paintings - General Tiki

P Paipo Member Aotearoa / NZ Joined: Jun 22, 2006 Posts: 1886	P Paipo Posted posted on Thu, Jan 31, 2008 1:34 PM Many of the old (1950s or earlier) Tahiti and Marquesas travel books have nice B&W photos with great contrast. Ditto the older Oceanic arts books for tikis. I've found quite a few complete books on the internet archive and project gutenberg, and ebay listings often have some nice scans included. There are always plenty of vintage postcards on there (ebay) too. There is also a very nice Taschen book on Sylvain. I've been collecting these for a while in the hopes of one day doing a large scale "Beauty and the Beast" sculpture... Pretty sure this one has been done a few times - he looks very familiar: As does this chap.... We return to our regular programming: bonus for Sven - no idea where I got this from:

Many of the old (1950s or earlier) Tahiti and Marquesas travel books have nice B&W photos with great contrast. Ditto the older Oceanic arts books for tikis. I've found quite a few complete books on the internet archive and project gutenberg, and ebay listings often have some nice scans included. There are always plenty of vintage postcards on there (ebay) too. There is also a very nice Taschen book on Sylvain.
I've been collecting these for a while in the hopes of one day doing a large scale "Beauty and the Beast" sculpture...

Pretty sure this one has been done a few times - he looks very familiar:

As does this chap....

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