TSA
Joined: Aug 31, 2006
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TSA
ALOHA TIKI TRIBE!
Working on my newest...
"A BLACK CAT CROSSES THE PATH OF THE NIGHT MARCHERS"
Boy that's a heck of a long title, I know. There a big 'ol story behind it. let me give you the shortest version I can: a friends told me her house sits on a "path" of the night Marchers "ancient Hawaiian Ghosts that march across the islands - dangerous if you get caught up in their march, kind of like the wild hunt in England and Ireland."
We talk-story at her house, long after dinner, telling "chicken skin stories ( or ghost stories) a major past time here in Hawaii.
I went home and had a dream about Night-Marchers, and woke up wondering what would happen if a Black Cat crossed their path?
I knew I had to make a painting out of it, so I drew several sketches. Then started a canvas.
Right now I'm deciding on sources of light. 1 - the sunset. 2 - the lava tube which must be below the stone structure the very M.C. Escher "endless path-way" is on.
Right now I'm really getting into the texture of the rocks, maybe make some more "lava-rock" like, maybe have some with prehistoric glyphs itched into them.
Right now it's enough work to make them look like rocks, with a light source coming from one direction.
Since the sunset is red, and the lava is also warm those lights are "WARM" light, making all the shadow "COOL" in color/tone.
If the light source had been a Moon, that would make a "cool" light and I'd make the shadows "Warm" - always the light and the shadows are the opposite of each other.
I learned all that from Saint Tim Hildebrandt and his wonderful book on painting.
~more laters!
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