Post #242468 by little lost tiki on Wed, Jul 12, 2006 8:51 AM

Hey friends!
Thanks y'all for writing! Hewey,I' got the invites and we're mailing them out this weekend. I'll send you a bill for extra postage! :D
To quote Salvador Dali "Dali doesn't use drugs-Dali is drugs." The mind is a terrible thing not to challenge! Read! Read! Read! That is my drug lately! Being an ex-marine(1982-86),the discipline doesn't hurt either! Of course, cigarettes,and coffee. I wouldn't think of indulging in pakalolo! :wink: I made this one witha 3x3 museum wrapped canvas.First I did the sketchbook study-then I look at the canvas and gel and read for a bit and look thru old sketchbooks for characters/landscapes I can glean inspiration,then maybe some reading,then 2-3 cigarettes,maybe a nap(short one)then I decide on the idea and sketch it out with water-soluble pencils(usually a light ochre-tan to warm up the undercoating) From there you can do your underpainting shading-then I went over this one in washes of gouache,and then regular goache in areas for highlights.For the black outline I used my trusty sumi ink brush pen(I'd tell you the brand but I can't read Japanese)and did all the final blackline and shading on the foreground,then again over that in areas for "pop".The background I simply used a hunter green for the land to set it back from the foreground.Still did the background palms in the sumi ink but with no shading so the foreground would come forward even still.Lastly,I use white and naples yellow gouache for the hi-lights-to give the sun more glow and such. Thanks for checking out the new work. My monkey mind and frantic hands are twitching to create something else!Here's a painting called "Tiki Curing a Headache"Mahalo!