TSA
Joined: Aug 31, 2006
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TSA
Aloha from the Big Island!
I'm actually sneaking onto the neighbors wireless to drop onto TC. I'm perched out on the end of my lani, squinting through the tropical glare off my lap top. My internet gets put in later this week, I hope. Conch, thanks for the kind words, but I'm just trying to paint with luquidtex, and having enough work at that. Sneaky, you break me up, oops, not sa'posed to say that here on the Big Island. Everyone's jumpy after the "California" earthquake that shook up Kona a few weeks back.
So, today I set up a temp-art-making-space. I'm lucky enough to have a few commissions from some nice folks after my art show on the mainland. So better quit goofing off at the beach and get to painting em!
Here's Mystic #8 sketched on canvas...
I'm using a really crappy digital camera I picked up at Walmart, my usual camera got packed into the container that's not due here till another week or so, so sorry about the low quality image. Anyways, as you can sorta' see there is another "magic pineapple", ala mystic Tiki #3, in this painting. Yes, my first commissions was for another "Magic Pineapple painting please". While I want to please my art patrons, and put food on the Tiki Shark table, (cause moving to the Big Island was more expensive than we figured) I don't want to just paint the same exact painting over and over, because then, the next time Ken Ruzic sees me at a tiki event he would stop, point at me, and cry out "Art Whore!" Thus my conundrum. I want to make new cool tiki art, but I also want to make a living. My answer so far, is to keep enough elements from the previous coveted work and also enter in new elements, thus making it a new unique piece. Right? Works for ya? Ken? .......Okay, so I'm not really sure on that. Let's just see how it goes...
~HERE's a sketch for a totaly new idea for a painting. I got back from snorkeling, and had this image in my head...
It's the "Sunken Tiki!"
(I know, another bad digital image. Sorry. When my scanner gets here I promise you crisp sketches again.) _ The light source is an electric eel coiled on an open chest of gold. It's scaring a school of brightly colored fish that have swum up around the Tiki's neck - forming a lei.
What so do ya think? Too funny huh? Well, I'm excited, cause I get to paint a Tiki and a shark in the same painting again!
Of course, I have a few other commissions berfore I can get to this one.
Anyways, It's mostly great to be back on TC!
OH, and I almost forgot, just to really cheese off Grog...
That's the view from my lani!
Aloha!
Tiki Shark
[ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2006-12-06 17:55 ]
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