Post #441623 by ravenne on Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:04 PM

Wow! :o

I'm enamored with this piece, seriously.
It's such a cute sweet and sad lil excerpt for lil'lost tiki until he finds the fishies singing for him to find his way home.
It's touching :)
You have to set aside time at some point and really work on this kid's book.
I think it'd be so much fun reading it with a little one!
Or even making a mini-animation for the story. :wink:

The painting itself is coming to life so much now from the last updates I've seen.
I don't know if I mentioned this in post before or not, if so I apologize for the repetition, but I originally thought the new take on the lil'lost would be set during the cloudy day or something, seeing as how the side by side comparison of the original the scenery is so dark and ominous. However, seeing the new update of this piece, I can definitely see the night time scenery you are trying to set, maybe it's the fact that this piece seems a lot more livilier (because of the color choice) that it gave me that wrong impression the first time. I actually like this piece a lot more now than the original solely because it just fits that child-like wonder and gives you that sense of "hooray! there is hope for that lil fellar to go home!" Where as the original piece, again just my silly opinion, comes off more ominous...I mean the fishies look happy, but lil'lost tiki looks like sad sad panda :( like they're not even doing a good job in making him feel better. Does that make sense?

:lol: anyway!

Awesome progress! Naples Yellow rawks!
:D Can't wait to see how this'll look when it's all done!