Post #398742 by little lost tiki on Mon, Aug 4, 2008 8:24 AM

Aloha Kiddles!
Thanks for poppin in!
been juggling my birthday and work and packing for a move this month....
I'll be 3 miles from my studio in Orange,so expect more work outta this grunt in the future....

Bill!-Thank you for the visit!I plan on kicking out some smaller color pieces of the two-person mask and a couple of the others so wishes DO come true! GIVE LENI A BIG HUG FOR ME!

Robb-if it ain't fun-it ain't worth it...
Would like to hear about your influences as well...
Always helps to understand the paintings more...
thanks for enjoying the art!

raves-like i told 4WDTiki,I'll have some little pieces of these guys in color coming up..And thanks for taking pix at the Freakout paint-a-thon!
scroll down...
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=28746&forum=17&start=285&297

I was working on the 2nd piece for the Tikimagazine show...a Sci-Fi/polynesian planet piece that i started last Sunday.....Well, in between packing and moving my home/garage studio back to the main studio,i got some brushtime in....
Here's what i gots....

it's 36x36 and stuck in the in-between stage of acrylic washes/paintpen outlines/and coats of sealant....
it pictures these robotic tikis landing on some distant Tropical planet,and their first encounter with the inhabitants....
here's some details so far....
here's a little fellow gliding downward...with a scary living tree in the background for benz....

at the base of the tree ,overlooking the activities from a cliff,is one of the NOMNOM guys,ready to act....

a Bird of Paradise Warrior,also on the cliff edge-gesturing with his spear and shield....

a masked warrior,running past a giant Hibiscus thing,calling for re-inforcements...

a three-headed leaf alien fleeing the scene...

i think i based this explorer on an African mask,if my memory serves me correctly(and it usually never does)
I like his fancy Spacesuit!

here's another masked warrior,forced to his knees ,as a NOMNOM guy sounds the drum alarm..

Here's two gents trying to threaten the attacker,these two are a bit more brave than the others...

Here's two more, entering the situation..

This middle robot is loosely based on a Solomon Islands paddle motif....

and what Exploration party would be complete without some Robotic Moai paddling about the cosmos?

here's a giant robot derived from an Agiba Skullrack,towering over the volcanos and gathering up some of the bubbles popping out of the opening...

here's the chief of the NOMNOM,with a torch,examining the events more closely from a tree-limb...
I wanted these guys to be a mix of monkey and menehune..
note the hei-tiki lizard bottom right....

here's another spacecraft,loosely based on a Vanuatu post....

and lastly, an explorer based on those janus style orongo birdman...
Gave then a fancy space outfit too!

So many questions that i still have about this piece....
Will contact be successful?
Are the explorers just landing,taking samples ,and leaving?
Will they be remembered,and are they the inspiration for the tikis we have today?
etc.etc.etc.
Hmmmmmmmmmm!
Welpers...thanks for looking kids!