Post #593429 by little lost tiki on Mon, Jun 13, 2011 7:26 AM

Hello Folks!
a little pre-work posting...
i got up early for this,so please....no shouting this morning...
thank you for your cooperation....

Sneaks-here comes another one ALL BRUSH,baby!
You'll be surprised at the amount of these there are already out there...
i segue-wayed into it slowly....imitating the strokes of the paintpen
and just using a brush...... Outlines are a pain in the behind to render with a brush
so there are a lot pieces that have acrylic grounds with a paintpen outline....
here's an oldies that's All acrylic...
"See No Evil (etc.) totem...

GROG-Thank you my funny fannypacker!
Thorsten has a great unique style...
I've been looking at Braque's,Picasso,Thorsten,and a slew of others who have delved into this look..
What an eyeful of great works! They've been so inspiring...
I only hope i can bring a little LLT to this way of painting and contribute to its advancement...
Hack? an artist never should work in a complete vacuum
it's a mutual inspiration club,remember?
Now go get your Warner Brothers jacket dry-cleaned or something
i gotta go talk to my other guests.....

Wendy-Wow! How sweet! Thank you for helping to spread the love!
Your "red Dirt Parking lot" is amazing!
I hope they place our art next to each other in the Scootiki exhibition
so they can chat it up at night after everyone's gone....
Hugs to you,my amazing ambidextrous friend!

Brad-Thank you! It's really enjoyable wandering off the path for awhile
and meeting a new style to play with!
It's even better when a good friend and fellow artist chimes in with such kind words! Thanks Brad!
Miss you man!

Well..... played with another abstract this week
when i should have been working on other things.....my bad...
But when the spirit moves you
one's gotta follow it!

Here is a step-by-step of my latest for you to check out and see how it's done at the batcave..
It's called "Visit of the Sun"

Step 1 slather Olives and mustards and magentas on masonite

Step 2 Draw it out on the DRY surface with a white pastel pen
(so you can wipe off the excess with a wet cloth

Step 3 start on the shadows with a Raw Umber

Step 4 start filling in other colors
(the palms/flowers/the Sun's rays/etc.)

Step 5 Start applying shadowing on those colored areas
Also begin applying the grass and the lighting here and there...

Here's some close-ups before it get's the coup-de-gras...

and here is the finished piece
after painstaking washes of sepia,blending the mustard
with the other colors to get a soft lighting and such..
It's a day scene and i wanted it softer than the Invocation piece
so i held back and didn't add any white or cream hi-lights....

Here it is...
This is the most accurate shot for color
"Visit of the Sun"
acrylic and cel-vinyl on masonite
16x20

i had a spare Monkeyman frame around,so i framed it! :)

Here's some close-ups of the final painting

Thanks again fer a'visitin and saying "Aloha!"
:)