Post #381039 by little lost tiki on Sun, May 18, 2008 1:34 PM

Aloha friends!
Sorry for the delay!
it appears that the combination of
busting out 40-50 Parking lot Sale pieces
a 9-day jag of cranking out those 3 mModern pieces
with a dash of work and a sprinkle of domestic life
was my Kryptonite!
Exhaustion,Uninspiration,and little "starts" and piddlings here and there
trying to get back in the swing of things....
Even read Kipling's Jungle Book ....but nothing....
I believe the saints refer to it as the Dark night of the Soul/Senses..
Well, looks like the desert has finally gathered clouds
and spilled some drops of inspiration down.....
phew!
Thought i used up all the reserves!

Clarita-well, i've been standing in a holding pattern these past two weeks
so i did receive your hug! Thanks! And thank you for letting those three
enter your heart and make you smile! it was fun watching people studying the
Night journey pieces,and the looks in their eyes when they would discover a hidden flower
or a magical landscape! Very fun!

Sneaky!
Sharkman! Lovin that SharkGod series you're slowly kickin out! Needs to be a painting!
Night fever?
Thank you!
But i think you may have caught Cat Scratch fever instead, judging from your manic post!
LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!
YOU are is has biz the man! :lol:
Hope my night rowers don't encounter a SharkGod in their travels!
I've heard Tangata Manu tastes like chiggen! :lol:

Freddie B!
the Man to Be!
just got word i'll be in the Tiki Fine Art show at the hukilau and moving to the Harold Golen gallery in Miami after that! That's a little bit closer...and i won't have the TikiTree there,but there'll be plenty of magical little Kinny's on the wall for you to get lost in! Thanks for the props and thanks for thinking of me ! i loves monkey pod!
And how about that stuffed Headhunter squirrel trade?
Get to steppin! :)

Robb-Thank you! And thanks for the inspiration your Art post provides! love the thumbnails and other little insights! Your new Pele piece is AWESOME! Glad i got to look at a piece of yours at Tiki Lee's booth twice this year! Awesome! Thank you for keeping velvet Tiki Art alive!

Whilst "piddling" about,trying to jump-start the creative process, I switched to and fro from one concept/mindset to another,flipping between studies and original drawings,chancey colorways,
lazy concepts,all with the mindset that i have to keep chugging...stagnate or die...
So, if the masterpiece hasn't arrived yet,develop some concepts and techniques for when it does hit the tarmac.....

Tackled the JOURNEY commission some more-the Birth canvas is almost done,and the Prime/Vital/Warrior canvas was ready to be born.....Sooooo taking my favorite/most concise study for the second canvas,i sank the background-adjusted the Horizon line and checked the flow of the
compositions next to each other and figured out how to arrange the mix of the foreground with the background....This second canvas is going to be acrylic base with paintpen to "ground' and solidify it more-it's a transition from the spirit to the earthy....

Here's the comparison on the overlaps...

Also, my secret patron requested some feathers in the hair/a la Maori chieftans,so i decided to

play with that idea for the warrior....

you can see my loincloth studies lower left....
you gotta consider everything.....even loincloths! :lol:
Here's a tighter,more dramatic pose
except his spear needs to be re-sized...

May start sketching it onto the canvas tonight!

After the Warrior piece is the Wise old Chief/Sage painting
indicating the twilight of life......

here's the study anticipating that one.....

and the death piece....
the final comforting/the boat turned dirge/the soul's ascent upward...
This ending piece will match up to the birth piece to create a cycle of generation/regeneration
of the Warrior Spirit....

All this thinking of Warriors led me to do a study of the son of a Maori Chieftan...

Also went on an Abstract jag.....
looking thru old drawings and ephemera and searching for the
graphic essence of stuff...

Fish!

fish with tribal elements ...

"the Meeting"

and a very sweet simple fish brush drawing...

Did these sketchbook pages full of stuff-scanned em and threw colors behind them in photoshop...
not sure what i'm gonna do with em yet.....

Some of these musings led to some Totem drawings....

Also did some rower and menehune battles in abstractland!


trying to reduce the form to one line...

Did that back in 89-91,so it feels like an old friend....


Also messed with some Moai....

"Six Moai"

"Sad Moai"

did a Caliente Tiki for Rory! Tiki Caliente was a BLAST!
Thanks wildsville!

Sketched some palms outside my door at the Caliente tropics hotel
later on turned them into this landscape

"Three Palms"

did some Cannibals....

Dreamed of living in a hut on a riverbank...

Here's some piddlings that just came out during the mentally idle hours this week....

"the Two Opinions"

"Manaia"

"Night Dancers"

"the Insult"

and my favorite.....
"the Nap"
Speaking of which....I think i will take one in a few minutes!
Keep those cards and letters Coming! :)

"the Nap"