Tiki-lantern or The Frogmouth

Here’s another image I created for the Trick ’r Tiki show. This image and Fireboy, which I posted earlier are done in a style that grew out of printmaking.
After college, I would have loved to continue working in stone lithography, but it’s an expensive medium, and I didn’t have access to a studio that was equipped for it.
I found, however, that I could achieve a similar style with black China markers, and watercolor.
It’s not a very forgiving technique. You can’t erase China marker, and it takes a long time to build up dark areas. If you make heavy pencil sketches in the beginning, they can show up as white marks when you move to China markers. Mistakes are permanent, and you can end up ruining a drawing that took you forever with bad watercolor washes later on.
It’s not a technique I use often these days, but for misty, dreamlike subjects, it’s brilliant. I’ll try to post more works done in this style in the future.

Fireboy

I've been working on some work for an upcoming Tiki/Halloween themed show at Wildcat in Napa. The show is being curated by Jose Mendez and is being talked about as the Trick 'r Tiki show. Get it? Clever, eh?
I was a little worried about my ability to produce much tiki-themed work since it's not usually my forte, but it's coming along better than I'd hoped. I'll post more of the work I've completed as the days go by.
I've been referring to this guy as Fireboy, so that's probably going to be the title when it's finally slapped into a frame and nailed to a wall. A friend suggested that he should be turned into a table lighter. Although I agree that would be cool, I think production of said lighter is beyond my skill set.