TSA
Joined: Aug 31, 2006
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TSA
ALOHA TIKI TRIBE!
Hey Thanks everybody for all the cool ideas... I went round and round a bit, then went with the Indiana Jones choice and put in a Golden Skull. I always like the idea of discovering lost or cursed treasure...
Heath - good question!
teaKEY - Good answer!
I'm still sort of discovering what the two tones of the split tiki mean really, myself. It all started when I was at "the Place of Refuge" here on the big island, and one of the tikis there nearly has a split all the way down it. That visual idea started bouncing around in my head then. Then It was a little about a Warm light source and a cold light source. then it started being about texture like teaKEY said. I think it still is alot about texture, (I love lots of texture on tikis) but also the weathering of wood. Moldy or discolored old trees and logs have started to intrigue me. I always like it when artist's take a human protait and work in different skin tones, green shadows, red noses.... I guess that started to manifest in my tiki weathering concepts.
On this tiki... it's sort of more subtle now after I layed in some more brown tones to unify it more... I'll get some better shots up when there's some sun light tomorrow.
Working up a big strange orchid in the foreground. then I gotta figure out how all the flora will look behind the elements and bring them together.
More laters!
ALOHA!
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