Post #242891 by little lost tiki on Fri, Jul 14, 2006 7:56 AM

Yeah Toonz!
Been doin for awhile and always readin' and learning! Through it all there was always tikis here and tikis there,if not in the fine art,then in the art for whatever company I was working with at the time! You should try your hand at some Moche(Peru?)or Mississippi Culture styles-the figures and motifs need to be Tooned up,so to speak!After this show I'm already planning my next(don't know where yet,but I'm working on the pieces-a gallery will come along so I usually concern myself with the art,as usual!....)This next series is called "Battle of the Fish" and was mainly inspired by the Tan Family Tomb carvings during the Han Dynasty in China quite a while ago! I took some of the characters and the flat low-relief style and added my own thangs and tada!
I usually work a couple of styles/themes at one time so the monkey-mind doesn't get bored. Thanks again for checking out the other site as well.The guy who set that one up moved away so I've just let it stay up there til doomsday! Looking back at old work,you're always kinda embarrassed about it except those few little pieces that stand out. That old stuff was mostly creating narratives or filling them in by combining different cultural styles and elements.Being artists,I think it is our duty (as semi-outsiders) to study this beast called man and try to reveal little insights about his journey on this earth.One of those main drives would be religion (be it Christian,Muslim.Mormon, or even Tiki!) as well as politics and power.Also sex would be a main motivator of mankind,so I even went thru a bunch of paintings with erotic themes(most of them amateur I think!)Eastern art and religion has always held a big fascination for me-the stories and just their sense of line and grace and design is on the money!Well, enough babbling! I believe that I speak for all artists when I say"What a long strange trip it's been." Not that I'm into the Dead or anything,but the quote was appropriate! Mahalo Toonz! Keep what you're doin!