Aloha Ohana!
Sorry i took so long to share some more
but been busy...
Still have 6 paintings to finish for the january 12th
"Clash of the Titans" exhibition with Toe
Busy time of the year!
I do appreciate all the art adoptions online and during these recent vending events at Don's and the Sunday gig at Damons with Andy "the nazzler" Nazzal and Tiki joe's Ocean
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=44312&forum=17&start=0&22
and now to answer all of youse kind enough to write....
On 2012-11-05 00:34, Atomic Tiki Punk wrote:
Pure Eye-Joy Kinny, you bastard!
See ya tomorrow.......
Don's Ohana is alive and well and GROWING!
It was great seeing you lancey!Always a lot to converse about and never enough time
and especially being able to snuggle Jungle Ginger when you wasn't lookin!
:)
On 2012-11-05 01:48, swizzle wrote:
I don't think i've ever left a comment here on your thread, and now i know why.
Robbie-
How can a fellow
so SHORT and BALD
be so witty?
Go bug Toe on his thread!
:)
On 2012-11-06 03:04, tigertail777 wrote:
Dammit Kinny, I am fully convinced now you DO actually paint in your sleep. There is no human way possible this could all be done so fast otherwise (plus it explains the surrealness of your subject matter). Just admit it. :wink:
Beautiful eye wrenching stuff as always. I dig the black light idea that would be awesome... but I know how much printing is on things like that...too bad I think your work would look exceptionally awesome in black light.
Since I know now you paint in your sleep... do those birds...ummm whisper things to you? Tell you to do things you probably shouldn't do? Unspeakable acts of mayhem for those birds with the big eyes that penetrate your soul and pin it down like a gentle butterfly to cardboard? I've seen how they stare. It's not natural. They want something.
Tigertail-it's NOT just the birds....Also been talking with HP Lovecraft's Dagon,Hercules and the nemean Lion,the walls of jericho and a slew of other pieces in the mix lately....
it's like a museum went INSANE in my head lately....gonna need a break after the january show...
Thanks for all the STOKE!
and as for sleep...that is a luxury that is 6 major paintings in the next 3 weeks will grant ...
On 2012-11-08 20:12, mp wrote:
These are what youve been doing lately! Oh my tiki lord. Each new painting is like an extra pillowcase of halloween candy and im eleven years old! Floored again dooood. Greatest tiki artist ever. I said it.
You're too sweet.empee! great talkin to you the other day! So proud that a few of the january pieces will be wrapped in an official empee frame! YAY!
On 2012-11-17 09:01, danlovestikis wrote:
http://www.kenruzic.com
When I write you do I write to little lost tiki or Kenny.
When other's write they write to Kinny. I'm confused by this but not by your art which is stunning and creative and a joy. See you soon Kenny. Wendy
It was such a Joy to my heart to be able to see you and hug you and talk and share fleeting smiles that crazy day at Don's!Your energy and love stay with me always,dear friend!
:)
Welpers....
lots to share here
so i'll cut to that and minimalize the chatter!
Been doing a lot of woodburning lately...
"the Voyage Home"
Pyrography (woodburning) and matte acrylic tinting on wood
6x6"
before tinting
"Fishing Expedition"
pyrography and matte acrylic tinting on wood
8x16"
private collection
"night of the crocodile god"
"Fishing Expedition"
pyrography and matte acrylic tinting on wood
8x16"
Private Collection
another woodburn,but instead of the Solomon Islands,i decided to take inspiration from the art of the people of the Sepik River in papua new Guinea...
"Night in the Village"
Pyrography and matte acrylic tinting on wood
8x16
"the Bellyache"
Acrylic and cel-vinyl on wood
4x12"
"Smiling Sun"
Acrylic and cel-vinyl on wood
6x6"
"Happy Tapa""
Acrylic and cel-vinyl on linen
8x10"
"Smiling Shield"
Acrylic and cel-vinyl on wood
6x12"
"Feast"
Acrylic and cel-vinyl on wood
6x6"
"Crocodile Bird Shield"
Acrylic and cel-vinyl on wood
4x12"
"Closing Time"
Acrylic and cel-vinyl on wood
8x10"
and finally,another peek into the process
this one will tackle the formation of a final composition of a narative
How to capture a myth,not just a snapshot from it
(which i had recently already tackled in a Hercules and the Nemean Lion painting)
but actual storytelling a bit....a capturing of the most dramatic part of a story
but still leaving the background stuff accessible to the viewer....
Such was the dilema for this painting
a painting that will grace the walls of Rothick Art haus in Anaheim on january 12th...
Sooo after reading SO many crocodile thangs,i couldn't find a myth that immediately formed a picture story in my head...
then i went back to this sculpture,and the story behind it...
and the story...
jungle
Motherly Love and loss
an Ancestor Spirit
a Bird head (i chose a Kingfisher,like the sculpture)
and the consequences of not contributing to the well-being of the village
a morality tale of sorts....
Here's some of the sketchbook studies...
Here are some studies...
once i got the basic composition down
cracked open the books and started doing studies of the folks living on the Sepik River....
and here is the final piece.....
"Bird headed Woman"
27.5 x 38"
(shown without Bamboo Ben frame)
will shoot it with frame later...
acrylic,cel-vinyl,and paintpen on wood
details!
See if you can identify parts of the story...
That's it for this batch kiddles!
i will leave you with a fond mahalo for all the love
and a shot of my almost finished newly refurbished studio library!
Aloha!
