Post #323996 by little lost tiki on Tue, Aug 7, 2007 10:41 PM

Howdee Doo folks!
Lot's to share with the ohana today! Got to finally meet the infamous art criminal Sam Gambino at SeaFood Sams on Saturday! He doesn't even resemble those other Gambino Gangsters!He must've been the one that got away! Anyways, if you haven't purchased any of Sam's art or mugs...shame on you! the guy's a talent plus a nice guy...ain't that enough reason?
Wow! i should post more...Now i gotta reply to all these clowns....OOPS!
Shouldn't type out loud...
Queen Kamehameha,Ravenne,Bullet (stoked you finally got the Cannibal Island! GLOW!),teaKS,Jentiki,Bamboo,Benzart,frostiki,Sneaky,Paipo,dogbytes,greentikipat,and TikiShark...phew! thank you for all the great comets :lol: and thanks for liking my old dusty shirts! I found the others, but most of em were cut up for pillows and/or a quilt my wife was supposed to sew out of them and some old Hawaiian shirts...that was about 3 years ago...even bought her a sewing machine....sigh!
Oh well, BUT i did find one more complete shirt and a pair of trunks that you may or may not like....
Seeing as these were produced betwixt 1995 and 2002,they are all spread around the globe or resting silently on a thrift store rack or someone's closet......All I have are my one copies of each,which i could part with for a half mil apiece :)
I'd love to do some more shirts.....perhaps someday!
well, i guess I'll show you the garments first...
here's a floral we did that was inspired by 3 shirts,vintage ones i had found at some of Orange's finer thrift establishments....
I painted up the flowers in gouache/scanned em and reassembled them according to the specs...we engineered it so it would stripe down the front and back of the garment ,and we engineered the sleeve pieces so they could get some flower on the cuff of the sleeve...

Detail (if you look closely, you'll see scattered plumerias we printed white on the white fabric)

Back

Back detail

Here's the trunks...the fun part of trunks is that you can pretty much "GO OFF" and get crazy with em......soooooooooooo...i decided to mix elements
hand-drawn as well as lifted from old Hawaiian shirts/matchbooks/sci-fi-futuristic pulps/and KungFu instructional manuals(the joys of having a splendid reference file!)We canned em and distressed em with halftones and line patterns and arranged the elements in a collage pattern..I got about 10 pages of these Sci-Fi tiki collage pages-i'll have to share them with ya someday!
here is the end result....
front

Back (looking at the repeat on the back, i can see why i got THIS pair...

Details!

Here's some KUNG FU/UFO/ICE CREAM CLOWN-I think we hijacked him from some ice cream Cone label or somethin...i hate /love clowns....

and the Soviet Astronaut/hula Girl from an HIC tee shirt...

and there you have it......
Next up is a quickie ink study for the travelling island painting for the Tiki Magazine Art Show in November...I really am stoked with the humid misty morning feel of this one! Ink and Bleachpen....Sepia rocks!

here's a progress shot of the Cannibal Serving tray from Mr. Squidly!
love those blood grooves in it! Turkey Mana!!!

Also did some work on the journey piece,here's a wide angle perspecto shot for ya!

As you recall, these 2 canvases were for the "Birth" and "Middle Age" canvases...and the patron wanted an image of a canoe in the background...
Well, after much wrasslin, the composition is gettin clearer....

Besides the huge Journey piece...i also got a 50 x 15 or 5 foot by 15 incher..can't recall...canvas for me birfday,so here's some studies for it before the actual undertaking...


As usual, the last one is usually the most fleshed out....
Started this puppy with water soluble pencils-sketching out the rough design,then painting it in vewwy wuffly in acrylics...Then after that,the indigo paint pen adds the outlines and shadows....here is the first phase of operation Cannibal Totem....

here's some close-ups to give you an idea of the rough lighting

Here's one i took as i flew by on my tie-fighter!

Here's a closer pass!VROOM!

and here's how it looks tonight after a bit o work...
TOP

and BOTTOM

Wellper.....that's all i got's for y'all right now! G'night!