Post #622049 by little lost tiki on Sun, Jan 22, 2012 8:13 PM

Aloooooooooo-Haw!

zerostreet-
mahalo soooo much for the props! PNG ROCKS!
lake Surfer has been goin AWF lately!
as you are too!
Year of the Dragon is bringin in a
rush of creative energy and inspiration!

Wendy-i am the one who is lazy....
you are the ball of energy,my dear!
Thanks for the visit,love!
BUMATAY!!!!!! :)

Mike-
"If I remember right the Nguzunguzu holding skulls or heads were war canoes and those holding birds were hunting canoes."
Thanks for that! i did more drawing than studying this explosion...
i like the fact it's a hunting canoe as opposed to a war/headhunting canoe prow...
Softens and sweetens the piece a bit...
love you MAN!
can''t wait for MOAsis!!!!!

Zerotiki-glad i could accommodate,my friend!
:)

Here's some progress shots...
Middle Sepik Orator's Stool!
How funny Dave hansen and i were groovin on the same kinda PNG vibe
Middle Sepik,BABY!!!

Details for you,dear Ohana!

and i finally decided to paint the other tiki/architecture piece for the mModern show
and keep River and Moonlight
for submittal to the laLuz gallery kitsch-n-sink exhibition...
empee talked me into it.....
now i'm gonna harass the Toe to do the same!

Remember this one?

"Modern Primitive"
ink and watered down acrylic on Aquarelle Watercolor paper (which is actually 100% cotton!)

(the drawing had a nice dark quality that i achieved by wetting the page and
applying a sheet of black paper over it and rubbing it
giving it a weathered deckled look...
i knew i would fall short of the initial drawing
and actually create something close
but different...

anyways...here are my progress shots...

16x20
gessoed and sanded masonite
pencil sketch from the study
and slight tinting with green

details...

more green and some violet for the undercoat

getting the initial shading/undershadows
DETAILS!!!

time for some COLOR!!!!

close-ups!

then started to add the raw umber "blackline and washes of violet over the greens and browns
to bring the color down....

DETAILS Schmeetails!

More raw umber and some shading and washes of blue....

Let's take a closer look....

Clouds and sky....landscaping....

NO Close-ups!

next step,ripples in da pool! moon reflections...
but still too bright for a night sky,so i MAY do some washes of blue and violet over the whole surface and rub it off,thus darkening it a little bit more....

close.......UPS!

That's it for tonight....
sorry i don't have more time for words....
But you know what Dale bozio says about words....
groan...
g'night!