Aloha!
welcome to page 1 of the next level...
new and experimental things in store
always examining and pushing the form,context,and narrative of most things Tiki!
Clarita and jonesy-your visits are always filled with love and encouragement
thanks you guys!
Ben-:lol: great to finally get to show you the studio
especially so you could see how wonderful your chess set /board looks
in it's new home..I am always stoked to be able to chat and learn from friends like you!
beer garden at the carnival? Terill might have to work
but i'll work on it...
I got's a Tilt-a-Whirl Jones!
Tikishark! miss you already man! it was sooo fun to be able to got to the juxtapoz show and
the planet rooth all in one crazy day! Todd Schorr's piece was AWE-INSPIRING,eh?
Glad you could see so many pieces by so many folks dripping with genius and talent
both in that scene and our own....
i am stoked to have an art-brother such as you
raves,Vampiress,Bill,Babs'
Thank y'all for the thumbs up on the woodburning and all those other nice things...
i can feel your excitement and smiles....
thanks!
I've tried Zaya's woodburning at Bill's chop...
incredible detail..
i would be spoiled if i got one of those....
that's why i'm glad i got such a cheapo woodburner
if you start off with inferior tools
it makes you try harder and think around the tool...
then, by the time you get quality tools and mediums to work with
you know what you're doing
and it makes it a lot easier
but you gotta pay your dues...
but i digress...
Squid recommended a soldering pencil
different tips
you can regulate the temperature...
gotta look into that...
woodburning...gotta focus on the story...
it's a second re-visitation on the theme
did these and a couple more last year when the wife brought home a woodburning kit...
here's 2 of 'em...
"tropical landscape"
NOTCH owns this one! I know it has a good home amongst
strange and wonderful things..
and here's my very first one...
i tinted it with sepia ink like so..
(if you're gonna tint your woodburns-water down the ink!)
and in the spirit of experimentation,i colored it more colorful!
i kinda miss the original sepia version.... :(
the new piece was a mix of both ink AND gouache on the wood
that way you get transparency and opacity of color...
the woodburner...
anyways, i used it for so long
that the tip i was using
MELTED OFF!
freaked me out
and i haven't used it for 6-7 months before the Watchers piece
did the Watchers and was ready for the next...
but was stopped short....
because it DONE BROKE DOWN!
long story short...
wanted to woodburn a baby Cannibal onto a round piece of wood...
plugged in the woodburner,all stoked and ready for that campfire smell
and i touch the metal part to see if it's hot enough
and it was ICE COLD!
it DONE BROKE DOWN...
so i gouached him on there instead...
"the Baby Cannibal"
looks like he may have committed infanticide
judging from the skull's size!
maybe one of them adult wee peoples...
we can only guess...
speaking of re-hashing themes
i prefer the term "recycle"...
it's hipper!
i did this ink/tissue paper drawing a while back...
"Outside the Village"
and there was something in the loose style,the looseness of the background
how the tikis were a mixed-up hodge-podge of different intersecting cultures
i just liked it...it haunted my head on and off,since i drew it...
maybe it is haunted!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anyways, i wondered if i could translate that look onto canvas...
so i did the ink/tissue paper,then sealed it with an acrylic paint sealer
i saw that it was gonna come up so i worked fast and saved it
may i suggest a spray varnish ..
Anyways, after the varnish dried, i took some sepia ink and swathed big brown brushmarks
here and there....
after that, i used paint pen,
making sure to go over some lines twice to get that thick and thin look of the original
and here it is....
translated to canvas....
"Outside the Village"
kinda the same...but not...
here's some of the tikis in it...
see if you can guess the cultures,,
some are made up and/or homogenized
so be careful!
a little balancing act...
Owtch! my head!
I'm seeing a theme here...
of dominance and aggression!
or not!
cannibalism....
i want that little spear holding dude to jump off his friend
and start doing some interpretive dance Maori/PNG stylee!
self portrait,,,
next painting!
Squid had a GRAND Retrospective as should befit such a Grand master....
Display shelves had to be created to honor this chunk of history...
after the show,the pieces go outside Kona,near the back...
Squid hooks up C'Al with some shelves for his Bahooka show coming up
squid calls,informs me that there's a couple of 3x8 footers
painted black
out back at kona
Freeeeeeeeeeeee!
during lunch on monday,the toe and i made the trek
and took a looong lunch and shot down there
packed em into his truck
and divied em up upon our return...
so i did some studies...
and started to Get to gettin!
been having fun with those little Maori munchkin fellows
so i decided to try my hand with the theme of an expedition in the dark jungle
on a dark river...perhaps on a dark night!
working on top of the black has been an opportunity to learn about extra dark grounds
because it peeps thru,so you gotta learn to work with it....get widdit!
anyways, being in a jungle,i started painting them overhead....
I'm trying for a loose semi-abstract piece
more like broken up in that stained glass style
see how there's gonna be a second color where the branches overlap?
I'm gonna do the same to the water
like in the "Night rowers" piece....
see the water-how it blends and how the lines bisect and flow into each other?
that's what i'm gonna try for with this one....
the boat wood color is real dark for now....
and the drawing underneath is water-soluble white pencil
that way i wipe it off when the acrylic dries...
there's something about the big head and silly look
on the face of the prow dude!
makes me giggle to meself! teeheee!
Doi-yoi-yoi!
KWAWFEE!
and here's an extra up close shot so you can see how rough it's starting out...
that's it...g'night ohana!
"The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts."
Henry Miller
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[ Edited by: little lost tiki 2008-09-30 08:13 ]
