Post #296776 by teaKEY on Wed, Apr 4, 2007 9:44 AM

What no Jeff Soto fans?

ok, always the fan of Flounder (www.flounderart.com) who is MIA at the moment, at least according to his website.

When I came onto TC a few years back, the first great tiki painter that I saw was Flounder but most of the tikis that he did, were older pieces that were all sold up. He did a cool sereis of Tiki MUgs on burlap and the results were incredible. Looked so real, that your swore it was a photo.

I never painted a single thing then and thought, I would never be able to paint with theses results. Since then I have done three paintings. My third painting is of MY favorite mug. Painted on found board, and looking for found frame to finish it off. Here it is. Just took a quick photo, badly washed out color and richness from real painting.

enjoy.

my painting on left, real mug on right