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Sweeet! Nice ink.

That's the coolest new moai art I've seen!

I take that back: that is some of the coolest moai art I've EVER seen.

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Zeta posted on Tue, Sep 14, 2010 10:38 AM

Whoa! Gracias Robb! You are too good! I really appreciate your support since you are a true master of the "chiaroscuro creepy tiki lighting technique" and a personal inspiration. Your work is truly stunning.

I must confess some of the moais where "borrowed" or "documented" from classic book pictures, bars and paperback covers, but that was part of the whole intention. In my book, to be truly tiki art, it has to be a little fake. The TTT or Tiki Transmission Tradition. My homage to ancient masters of all times and galaxies. Nothing new under the sun...

Check the final color version in my virtua gallery here:
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=36738&forum=21&4

Great ink drawing of those Moais,Zeta!
Muy Excellente!

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Zeta posted on Sat, Sep 18, 2010 11:07 AM

"Ku" Hawaiian war (recycled) god

ballpoint pen on recycled cardboard

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Zeta posted on Sun, Sep 26, 2010 11:15 AM

Hey! Keep boosting my ego!

"The aliens did it"

2010 freestyle ink on paper.

No pencil, eraser, sketching, planning, composition or lightboard tracing technique was used in the making of this masterpiece. One shot. You try doing it, I dare ya'.

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Zeta posted on Sun, Sep 26, 2010 11:23 AM

I know it's wrong from me to say this but I think this one is great:

"Missionary burning a Polynesian Idol."

A theme not too exploited at all, I've only seen two very old illustrations about it. One from Germany and the other one British... I have them somewhere in my massive tiki archives, I will look for them someday to share with you my beloved fans.

Really nice work Zeta, I love the Spacesuit Moai and I'm still chuckling over "The Aliens Did It."
Fresh and original, I gotta get over here more often.

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Zeta posted on Mon, Sep 27, 2010 8:09 AM

Gracias Congatiki! I am happy you are one of us superior beings who "get it". Fresh and original, that's my goal. Thank you! :) If you liked "the aliens did it" piece, then you will probably like this one too...


"The space-bird-man"
Bic pen on paper

Although my drawings seem fun, they are dead serious. I do believe in these things. I do believe that aliens visited Easter Island.

AH! "The Aliens Did It" - I've got a design I'm working on that is very similar but very different, too.

Oh well, I'm probably 2-3 years from doing that piece, so I'll just dig yours in the meantime!

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Zeta posted on Sat, Oct 2, 2010 9:25 AM

"Great minds think alike" Robb, Can't wait to see your painting... Do you really plan your work years ahead? I guess so because you must have a big client waiting list... Hey! I got an idea! I'll trade one of my doodles for one of your paintings. :wink: What do you say? Deal?


"Nowhere land"

B

Excellent stuff Zeta!

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Zeta posted on Mon, Oct 4, 2010 8:09 AM

Mahalo Master Benzart! Thank you and everyone for visiting...


At the Rano Raraku Lounge

MADNESS!!!

:lol:

you got a twisted mind,Zeta...
it's infectious!
:)

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Zeta posted on Tue, Oct 5, 2010 8:28 AM

Twisted? Nah...


Bird-Man (Half-pipe at Rano Raraku)

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Zeta posted on Tue, Oct 12, 2010 3:57 PM

Where does this tiki came from? I just forgot... Marshall Islands? I think...

One shot pencil on paper
2006 or so...


Love this guy Zeta, so suave!

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Zeta posted on Wed, Oct 13, 2010 5:18 AM

Thanx PerroLocoMiguel! To quote J.D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield: "Suave as hell"


A minor work
2005

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Zeta posted on Mon, Oct 18, 2010 9:03 AM


From my 2003 blackbook

HJ

Zeta, that art is amazing and inspiring. Hope you are having as much of a gas creating it as we are, digging it.

Thank you!

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Zeta posted on Thu, Nov 18, 2010 8:15 AM

Haole Jim, you are too nice... thank you! I love doing these drawings, I really do. It's beyond me. compulsive doodler... And of course, I love sharing them and get feedback too! I feed myself from the applause! (take dollars too) I'm an agggggggghtist! So, you keep appreciating them and I'll keep sharing them. deal?

"Caledonian Tabou and PNG mask"

This piece of paper (the back of an outdated calendar) was done somewhere between 2005 and 2007. What I call my "brown period" because I used primarily cardboard and recycled pieces of paper as a canvas for my art. And because sounds important to have "periods" in your artwork. Sound pretentious and art dealers, critics and historians love that f artsy talk. Hopefully, that will bring me some dough, chicks or recognition some day...

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Zeta posted on Sat, Nov 20, 2010 8:52 AM

"I want to be adored"

Sketch after a fimo Tikis Mikis by Lady Eve
2006

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Zeta posted on Mon, Nov 29, 2010 2:15 PM

Unexplainable (Abstract Moai # 5)

2003
Before knowing anything about Tiki Central or Book of Tiki.

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Zeta posted on Tue, Nov 30, 2010 7:36 AM


Early 2000 drawing with moais

AVIDA DOLLARS!
isn't that an anagram for Salvador Dali?
Keep creating,Zeta!

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Zeta posted on Tue, Nov 30, 2010 10:22 PM

Mahalo Little Lost Tiki! I will keep creating, I just need to find a way to stop eating!

This one, I like. Please don't copy me, or do it but give me my credit, thank you. (Yeah right!)

Moai Pez

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Zeta posted on Wed, Dec 1, 2010 9:14 AM


Ku Hawaiian war god candy Pez dispenser.

Note to myself: (Maybe I should actually try to $ell the concept to the Pez Candy Corporation...)

Also available:

Rarotonga Pez
Papua New Guinea Pez
Maori Pez

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Zeta posted on Wed, Dec 1, 2010 9:39 PM

((Crickets)) ((Crickets))

Though crowd...

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Zeta posted on Thu, Dec 2, 2010 2:30 PM


Picasso at 60

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Zeta posted on Thu, Dec 23, 2010 12:16 PM


Picasso at 29

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Zeta posted on Fri, Dec 24, 2010 7:46 AM

The soap moai

Based on a real sculpture seen at a party.

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Zeta posted on Sat, Dec 25, 2010 6:39 PM

A random page from my annals...

By the way... Mahalo for watching!

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Zeta posted on Tue, Dec 28, 2010 4:50 AM


The Chinese secret

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Zeta posted on Tue, Dec 28, 2010 10:04 AM

Thank you people!!!

Picasso, here I come!

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Zeta posted on Tue, Dec 28, 2010 6:12 PM


"Not Tiki"

2007

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Zeta posted on Tue, Dec 28, 2010 7:06 PM


Self Portrait with blue cup

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Zeta posted on Tue, Dec 28, 2010 7:11 PM

On 2010-01-02 17:56, Zeta wrote:
Gracias MadDogMike!! :D

Mask design copied from a Sandy Dvorak carving.

The cool thing about this one is that it's a recycled IKEA kitchen table.

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Zeta posted on Tue, Dec 28, 2010 7:19 PM


Tiki aficionado

*bigbrotiki said sometimes this is how he feels. I completely agree, it is hard to follow Tiki.

(Originally posted in another thread that got locked and sinked to oblivion for reasons beyond my control.)

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Zeta posted on Tue, Dec 28, 2010 7:31 PM


(Bouncing) Piece of lava

(Study for a detail on a skateboard)

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Zeta posted on Mon, Jan 10, 2011 6:20 PM


Extreme drawing (Homage to Hokusai)

10,000 views!
Mahalo amigos!

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Zeta posted on Thu, Feb 10, 2011 3:55 PM

A lot of my pictures above are gone! Why, oh why?

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Zeta posted on Fri, Mar 4, 2011 12:45 PM

I'm opening a show tonight...

"Arte de Marte" skateboards (some with tikis)
I'll post them later

viva Zeta- Brill stuff-brimming with vitality -reminds me a lot of one of my favorite artist/designers Mariscal.

Congrats on the show Zeta!

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Zeta posted on Sun, Apr 24, 2011 9:04 AM

Mahalo amigos! Mucho appreciated!


Filling the arks
Ballpoint pen on Moleskine
Madrid
2006

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Zeta posted on Mon, Jun 6, 2011 4:16 PM


Tiki god log
Madrid 2003

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Zeta posted on Tue, Jun 21, 2011 9:01 PM


"Psicobilly & Frankentiki"
2011

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Zeta posted on Fri, Sep 2, 2016 4:20 PM

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