Post #370883 by Tiki Shark Art on Tue, Apr 1, 2008 9:56 PM

Aloha~
Kahu ~ Thanks! If you like in progress stuff showing the mistakes and all, you'll love today's posting! Hey, so Kahu, that's Hawaiian. It's Hawaiian for...( I'll look it up here in the handy dandy Hawaiian / English dictionary) let's see, KAHU: Honored attendant, guardian, nurse, keeper, or ... one who owns a dog or a cat, or any pet. So, which one is it?
Paipo ~ Mahalo. Wow, that Toby glaze is beautiful! The fanciest mug in my collection is my super cool RUZIC hand painted mug. And speaking of Ken...
Ken ~ Thanks, thanks, but I dunno if I'm up to getting a complex glaze like that right. and I DID start the next painting! I did a KEN! I'm actually working on two at once! More on that one later... now for today's screw ups... er, I mean artistic learning opportunity.

So, being the obsessive artist that I am, I was flipping the image back and forth in Photoshop, and something about it was bothering me. Then, I finally noticed the eyes were at WAY different levels. I mean WAY off. I figured if the left eye was a little bit lower, it would be because of the roundness of the head, but not THIS low.

Okay, soooo it's an easy cut and paste fix in photoshop, but that doesn't fix the original painting. I figured I could do a lot of repainting, or I could think of a cleaver way to fix it. Like...
1.) Paint a big eye patch on him and make him a pirate.
2.) Paint on a big pair of dark sunglasses.
or
3.) Say it's not Bela Lugosi, but actually Quasimodo.
Hmmm, so much for clever fixes.
So...

On

with

the

repainting!

Almost got his new eye worked in. He's looking a bit better. Well, a bit less freaky anyways. Not really sure if he's a dead ringer for Bela Lugosi, but not sure if that's even important to me anymore. Roughing in the mug.

I'm thinking about the glaze.

Laters!