Happy Mother's Day! Seeing as i'm stranded out here in Sunny Cali and just called me mum and sissy for Mother's Day
i now have a quiet afternoon to myself...
A Happy Mother's Day to all you moms out there! Your selflessness and love and guidance have made all of us who we are today...Big hugs and a SHOUT-OUT! Whoooop!
Lemme Reply to youse folks nice enough to leave your thoughts and we'll be on our Waaaaay!
On 2012-04-18 07:40, AlohaStation wrote:
"Memories" piece is outstanding! I want one that is measured in feet not inches.
Hey Buddy!
I assume you're referring to "By the light of the Pufferfish" and the comment "Memories of Mojave's Mermaid Lounge and the beautiful lamps"....Mahalo Boss! Love that BIG Pineapple Tiki you recently finished! I'm with you on the going BIG part,but alas,with paintings,unless it's a commission ,will leave a Big painting dusty and stored in the attic of the studio...But! Toe and i are having a 2-man exhibition in January ..."Clash of the Titans" (he didn't like my original pitch name "BumFight" :( oh well...) where we will both be doing some bigger pieces that befit an art show of two troglodytic talents of our age..... :lol:
Glad you had a BLAST at Hukilau...and I'll see if i could come down again and visit y'alls! i miss the MAI-KAIIIII!
On 2012-04-19 01:08, ZeroTiki wrote:
We are gettin the Peta~luau petaluma style wrenched together up here, Mister K! Will keep you posted!
Zero! RIGHT ON! A big part of our responsibility to our artist brethren is to SPREAD THE FIRE! INSPIRE! Make sure there are those who will respect and cherish this movement,
those who will do research and studies and understand and communicate that to others...etc etc ad naseum...
Can't wait to hear what bonfires you're starting up there!
Thank you! :)
On 2012-04-19 05:33, MadDogMike wrote:
Oh, I didn't know you owned any hot pink paint! :lol:
Have a safe trip, see ya soon!
Mike! Why i outta!!!!
So great seeing you at Moasis! Your warmth and humor and sneaky pranks and sly smiles made this weekend even FUNNERER! As for the pink.....I've found there are ways of adding it to classic color combos,and have it work ...at least i think so....Gonna go to the art supply warehouse soon and plan on picking up some MO unlikely and CWAZY colors!!!
Speaking of Mojave Oasis..
Thanks to Everyone involved!
i love you Amy and Ray!
If you haven't gone,you should GO!
sooo much Aloha and general mellowness and Ohana...
and MAN! can a person get their DRANK ON indeed!
and vending with Doug was such a JOY!
Here's one of the flyers for that momentous event....
Anyways....early Sunday morning,awakened by the sweet smell of dew(i slept outside on the grass outside my trailer....just because) i got up and wandered the early morning grounds,doing some studies of some of the new tiki poles erected around the grounds...there's always new and wonderful things to be discovered on the grounds ,as Amy is constantly adding new and wonderful acquisitions to the park!
Their simplicity and frankness are really stunning in person! and there are soooo many! It was fun to try and trace the original sources of some of these guys!
Hey Folks! Remember this painting?
Well, i was scanning some sketchbook pages and came across the original studies for these lil guy's!
"Cannibal's Feeding Frenzy"
acrylic gouache and cel-vinyl on wood
with a raw and primitive Bamboo Ben frame
19x21"
Here's the original sketches in all their flurry and messiness!
If you wanna see details and commentary on this painting
click here and i will teleport you THERE!
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic=19904&forum=18&start=2790
OOOOOOOOOkay!
Finally was able to start a piece AND remembered to document it!
Started a Cannibal Totem...and used Hawaiian influences on these guys...
started with a few quickie sketches during an Artjam a few weeks back with Doug and Toe ...(got to watch "The Impossible Kid" a Filipino-ploitation film with the coolest cutest midget Weng Weng That you've ever seen in Cinema! Check out his Secret Agent flick "For your Height Only...on Netflix...GO!)
Choo-Choo-Choosing the entry on the left
i began to sketch it out in pencil onto the raw canvas....
Had to draw some guidelines on there just to keep my wonky sense of balance and composition in check.....
Kind of forgot to sketch the Orongo Birdmen in there,but ....
maybe next piece....PLUS,that's a Rapa-Nui thing,not Hawaiian Island sooo.....
Next step was to erase the guidelines and refine areas that appear too wonky....
i used washes of orange to create a warmth underneath
(Toe does the same thing,but he goes over the ground with thick layers of paint...whereas i will applying washes of color over the ground..)
Mostly used cool or neutral colors for a ground
so there's a little excitement factor going on here.....
Then i applied some washes of the same color
a little deeper in some areas
a way to map out shadows and the like....
Next step is the raw umber and whites
built up in washes,to bring out the figures even more.....
Here's some close-ups!
Next step was more Raw UmBAH,a lil more white
the HORROR!
and some olive for the grass loincloths,and some YELLAR to get the mouth flames goin...
some Deets...
Next step is to apply the paintpen over the rendered ground...
(i refer to this as my "old-style" as it was a technique i used very early on in my painting career...a way of making the image more flat,more graphic...Later i learned to utilize the underpainting more to help define the figure's light and shadow,as opposed to just using the rendered ground as an area of color to fill-in...)
Sorry,that may have been a little too ART THEORY for the likes of Youse! :lol:
Anyway, i hope you get the gist of it...
Anyways, i took a sabbatical from this style for a few years,preferring to master the brush,as this form of painting was half painting and half drawing
(brush and paintpen)
BUT! i wanted to able to do a piece fairly quickly,sooooo..
there you have the saga over style
for this painting...
Not taking a whole picture of the ALMOST finished piece YET!
gonna make you Wait on that...
Anyways,here's the details from my second to last session on this child!
Here's an ultra close-up to show you the underpainting and how with just an indigo and yellow paintpen,it"s all beginning to come together..
Still miles to go before i sleep
but it's at a point where i can finish it at my leisure...
No,that's not a Mr. T mohawk..
it's the top Tiki's grass skirt brushing on the top of the skull in the middle guy's forehead!
This guy said a MOUTHFUL!
Perhaps a sly commentary on the inequalities in our world today?
Hmmmmmmmmm......
Still have to think of a title for this one....
Stay tuned!
and thanks for poppin in!
:)
