Post #315162 by little lost tiki on Tue, Jun 26, 2007 9:46 PM

Aloha Crew!
Thank you Freddie,hewey and Clarita....
i promise to free up some room for some tiki bedtime stories soon! :)
Glad y'all like the benken collaborations...BambooBen is such a living legend that i sometimes
feel like I'm desecrating his handiwork...But then you see the stoke on his face and it all goes
away! What a bunch of fun projects and what an honor!
Just took down "the last Minute" show after work and dropped it all off at the studio for hanging on Friday...Can't wait to hide all those white wallspaces!
well,anyways,my older stepkid is redoing her room over in Garden Grove and my wife is all excited about helping her redecorate...Their theme is pink....so of course,seeing as i have nothing better to do,i was recruited to paint her a pink tiger...(she has a tiger tattoo so the theme was easy) Anyways,thought i'd share this before delivering it on friday!
Hello pink Tiger!
Goodbye Pink Tiger!
I barely knew ye....

Well, i mixed gouache and gesso (pink and purple) over the background and grabbed some olive green for the leaves and roughed them in around 7 and let it sit and dry until around 9:30...
Then I just freehand brushed in the tiger (hence the kinda awkward pose/composition) and added the lighting with...you guessed it ! Naples yellow/some white for teeth and eyes and some light blue highlights to bring out the dark indigo of the the "blackline"...Had the painting done by 1:15 and was all washed up and toothbrushed by 1:40...what a blur!
Oh well! here's some details!
the back....

and the face! RAWR!

That's it for that lil interlude! Goodnight friends!