My latest mixed media piece

[steveinca]

Hi guys,
This is the latest project i've been working on. It's a homage to one of my favorite artists, Kris Kuksi. Kris has given me his blessing on this project and has also given me his blessing in showing it at a gallery come October. It's called "Earth on Hell:Homage to Kuksi". It measures apprx 48 x 36 x 6. It consists of sculpture, altered assemblage and paint. As of right now it's only primered. I'm going to paint/wash it with an antique patina finish. Should be done in less than a month. I started working on it May,08.

[benvan]

looks like an immense amount of time and energy went into that, great job, and a worthy (from looking at pictures at least) tribute to Kuksi. Just curious, did you have most of it planned/sketched out? or was it a figure it out as you go process? Do a lot of the scenes in there have stories/themes?
I look forward to seeing it complete.

[sleepboy]

Looking good. I'm curious what parts are actually sculpture and what parts are premade parts that were painted?

[steveinca]

Aug 20, 2008 9:32:02 GMT -8 benvan said:

looks like an immense amount of time and energy went into that, great job, and a worthy (from looking at pictures at least) tribute to Kuksi. Just curious, did you have most of it planned/sketched out? or was it a figure it out as you go process? Do a lot of the scenes in there have stories/themes?
I look forward to seeing it complete.

Yeh, it definitely is time consuming. I had a general idea of where the main pieces were going to go, the rest just came to me while working on it. There is a central theme, that being birth, death and reprocessing as well as temptation and good vs. evil.

Aug 20, 2008 9:47:50 GMT -8 sleepboy said:

Looking good. I'm curious what parts are actually sculpture and what parts are premade parts that were painted?

Thanks Hung! The sculpture pieces are the main woman in the middle, parts of the skull as well as a bunch of little pieces through out the piece. The heads, small figures, columns and doll parts are not sculpture. Also, to modify certain pieces i had to sculpt necks, backs, and parts of the faces.

[junkyardsam]

I think you should let any kinds around you have a look at this. Seriously. I saw some pieces of art when I was a kid that stuck with me forever... And you can just imagine a kids imagination going wild discovering all the details you have this this amazing sculpture collage thing. I love it.