TSA
Joined: Aug 31, 2006
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TSA
Aloha Tiki Tribe!
Had a really beautiful drive over to the wet-side of the island...
(and by "drive" I mean we got the Tiki-mobile out on an open remote road. This is a look at the heads-up-display for the driver)
We raced over for a party with friends and family of a wonderful woman who is an old teacher of my partner/agent. They had not seen each other for 25 years!
"View of Coconut Island, in Hilo Harbor from our hotel room.
Real Hawaiian Style get together. Lots of food. Lots of "talk story": we had a great time meeting some cool/interesting folks who live on this wonderful & unique Island. And, you always figure out you meet someone -who knows someone-who knows one of your friends... it's an island, and not THAT many people are on it. ( we always say "Big Island - Small world!")
Anyways, I'm back in the studio now ..and back to da' art!
Step 2.)
Getting the sketch onto the canvas.
After I got a sketch I like. I transfer it to the canvas. I could do this in a easy way with a "lucy" and project the drawing on the canvas and trance it... but I don't. I re-draw it. Eyeballing it. This is a laborious and pain-in-the-butt kind of way to do it. However, it has this kinda appealing "organic" progression of the image that I like. the image will no doubt not be exactly what I sketch. It'll change and grow and evolve... for the better I hope. If it doesn't look better I keep re-drawing it on the canvas till it does.
This is time consuming, I know. and it'd be faster to use a "Lucy" and trace it. But, I'm not doing this for speed, I'm doing this to create the best painting I can... and sometimes I learn more about the image as I re-create it on the canvas, then paint it in a monochromatic light and dark study, then-paint (tint) that with transparent color. My hope is that I'm learning things that would not occur to me from just a perfect transfer of the sketch.
But, this gives me more time working on each part of the image till I become more and more aware of everything they can be and (I hope) paint them in the best way possible. I'm not positive I'm going to to do an entire monochromatic under-painting this time, but I might do parts of it monochromatic and build up layer and layer of semi-transparent paint to get that so hard to create "inner glow" to objects that you see in some of the masterful works of the past.
So, it's the long hard way... not the short easy way. But I keep my fingers crossed that I'll learn more this way. I may be wrong... but heck, I am still learning, and each painting is a lesson. Thanks for watching... hope this turns out worth watching!
A-Lo-HA!
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