Post #3261 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Jul 3, 2002 11:45 AM

Their friend must have gotten that info from The Book of Tiki, because that's where you find it on page 136. It is actually copied from a beautiful rendering of the Mai Kai that appeared in restaurant guides and on postcards (there are several versions, changing with the MAI KAI's expansion, the later ones got extra long) I was torn between using that rendering or the velvet (no space for both) but since I used that very early rendering below, I opted for the velvet. If you look at the three posts that are to the right of the Tiki, that's where the MAI KAI sign sits in the postcards.
I don't believe the velvets were done FOR the MAI KAI (no sign, the Tiki was changed, buildings added), someone just copied the motif to make a "Tropical Village" painting. The technique of the piece is strange, the lines are so thin that it must have been drawn with pens on the velvet (or, more likely since it is mass produced, imprinted)

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2002-07-03 11:53 ]