Alow-HA kiddles!
Got a lotsa goodies to share but first
let me send a BIG HUG and a Thank ye kindly to
Meheadhunter,crafter of bitchin PNG pendants
lovely Croe67,my international monkeypod supply warehouse
Kiki,who didn't think I'd really stop painting...honestly!
babalu-my clay guru,friend.and coon trainer ninja master
Lake Surfer,who MAY have a DRUMMING TO THE FISH piece
waiting for him at Oasis
MadDogMike-who really needs to get rid of that
truly awful funkee fresh thang
Clarita,my carving sister from the southern part of our globe
TravelingJonesy-who is always a font of wisdom and creativity
and Iokona Ki'i-whose velvets of beautiful wahines always amaze
a Big mahalos to y'alls!Can't wait to see most of y'all at oasis! :)
I'm so glad to have such an enthusiastic spastic group of visitors this week!
Speakin of Visitors...
Had squids and the Big Toe over on Friday for an impromptu
PIGGY CLAY GREENWARE FESTIVAL OF CARVING at the batcave!
We done stayed up til 3-3:30 AM,folks!
YAWN! Double YAWN!
I'ma gonna post pics of the evenin on Squiddle's thread
so make sure ta visit it later on! thanks!
Soooo...after showerin and finally crawling into bed around 4-4:15am
i wake up JARHEAD style at 8:00 and get to the studio around 9:30 after scarfing down some frozen berries because a special day was to be had! hodad hank was coming to visit
- to pick up ULTRATANG from the Light gallery
- to help cherry pick some paintings and oddities for
the Freaky Boutiki Gallery exhibition of the 3rd Annual Tiki Magazine Anniversary Show!say that fast THREE times! :)
and what a day it was
full of some intriguing conversations
and hilarious surrealistic moments
(we ate lunch at the Chili pepper in Orange
it's like a Vegas idea of a CASA style restaurant
except for the 7 foot NUTCRACKER
and 4 6 FOOT WOODEN SOLDIERS!!!!
odd! but great chilequilles (sp?)
Anyways, at his CHOP last month,he gave me a 3-D drawing pad
so,when he was a'visitin the studio,he happened to try them on
and BEHOLD!
the first thing he looked at was the Tiki mandala
"Guardians of the Plumeria"
and it POPPED in a most unusual way!
ZOY-YOI-YOING!
Then he checked out "the Arrival" painting
and ZA-YA-YAAAANG! there were certain colors and certain outlines
certain atmospheric tricks i had applied with the
acrylic/paintpen style that were ENHANCED with these glasses!
What a discovery!
so we chatted about a possible exhibit in the future
(10 big pieces with that medium couldn't be that hard,could it?)
So basically,my mission is to figure out WHAT works
what effects/what combos of colors work/how to make areas come atcha
and others recede into the background...
another exciting development...yay.
:)
FIRST OFF!
MOKO the CLOWN is finally finished and ready to
roll on out at Pappy Haggler's Bargin Barn!
Here's some lovely views
on the dirty counter
of my dirty studio kitchen sink
lovely...
When last we left our poor clown
his brain and wig were white as bisque
because they were...
So first off,the brain...
a purplish grey with fluro green hi-lights
and indigo outlines in Squiddle's sculpt.
it was fun to trace over the contours,echoing the master's lines
and then be able to accentuate them,elaborate upon them!
Thanks for sharing SOOO much of your talent and bisques and greenware with all of us artists! And look at all that awesome work that's comin from it! bravo!
Next was the WIG...
which,because of my ambitions for a cartoonic realism
pushed me into a
WHOLE FRIGGIN DAY OF PAIN-TING a SILLY RAINBOW CLOWN WIG!
tell me about it....
Here it is... the toupee de grace!
yeah,you guessed it..
stupid ken decided to make the WIG yarn,,,YARN!
so first he laid down the indigo paintpen
to establish the shapes of the spaghetti-like stringy
matted by jungle heat yarn....
This funny PNG guy on the back
looks like an HR Pufenstuf Beatles fan!
Anywhoo,Come visit MOKO the clown at
PAPPY HAGGLER'S BArGIN BARN!
Ask fer Pappy,he'll be Glad to Accommodate yews! :)
embellishment's fun because the surface is always a challenge
every artist's "line" is different
different hands,different sensibilities..
well, the rest of the weekend was spent in an isolated shell of
BAMBOO BEN COLLABORATIONS!
Yuppers,went to drop off my tribute to Ben
to thank him for that last batch of 3-D Scrap goodies
so he got this baby...
which is gonna look friggin RAD-I-KAL in his hut!
Thank you Ben!
so ,anyways,i get there and he has a LOT more
that he just threw together
and they was pretty fun and challenging-lookin!
Mahalos Ben you're Bona-FRIED! :lol:
Well, anyways, this weekend was a
rough and tumble Abstract/Messy/Stained glass/3-D art jag!
"Blue Ku"
"Jungle Shield"
here it is in a 3/4 view to give you an idea of Ben's 3-D canvases..
i think i just wrote "MOAI" for the name of these two
until Moai-Dee and Moai Dum came to mind...
(ah,the subliminal power of marketing)
the way Ben arranged the elements on these
almost made it too easy
almost
too
easy
almost...
Next,Hank grabbed the Wave (leaf bowl) for the show at his gallery
so all of a sudden I'm OUT of anything partially relating to surf
great...
so i painted this
based on the leaf painting
here's the part we're talking about..
Anyways, i tried this approach in acrylic
instead of gouache...
By adding some shadowing
there were effects that pulled a Trompe De Loeil
resembling Boo Ben's creations a bit...
symbiosis....complete....bidibidibidi!
and this last one...another offering for the surf/ocean crowd
this one was a blast and slushy mushy sweepy dream to create
these really have to be seen in person!
make sure you visit squidz and meself at the Artist Alley!
"Ocean Floor"
Also started working on
the magical pegasus pegboard of art for oasis!
Please Come visit us in the Artist Alley
and speak yore mind to us....
and look around
and see em in person!
That is All for Now..
Over and Out!
:)
