Keeping velvet tiki art alive...? TWO PIECES ARE WRAPPED! YEAH! - Other Crafts

RH Robb Hamel Member Ohio Joined: Mar 07, 2008 Posts: 1013	RH Robb Hamel Posted posted on Tue, May 27, 2008 4:34 PM msteeln, there's lotsa great airbrush art out there, I guess I have bad flashbacks of all those sci-fi and fantasy paintings over the years that just used cheesy airbrush effects so the artist didn't have to blend his paint. I think it could look great if done right, but velvet is a tough lover: you have to stroke it just right or you get nothing. If similer effects are quickly achieved with an airbruch, every t-shirt airbrush artist who ever worked at a kiosk in a mall could mass produce paintings like wild. Then history repeats itself and velvet again becomes a tacky medium for cranked-out art. If, on the other hand, an artist of unique vision creates heretofore unseen and dynamic images, then we all will benefit as fans of tiki art. Here's the one painting I've done that is meant to capture the spirit of '70's velvet just before the crash: "Godlight"

msteeln, there's lotsa great airbrush art out there, I guess I have bad flashbacks of all those sci-fi and fantasy paintings over the years that just used cheesy airbrush effects so the artist didn't have to blend his paint.

I think it could look great if done right, but velvet is a tough lover: you have to stroke it just right or you get nothing. If similer effects are quickly achieved with an airbruch, every t-shirt airbrush artist who ever worked at a kiosk in a mall could mass produce paintings like wild. Then history repeats itself and velvet again becomes a tacky medium for cranked-out art.

If, on the other hand, an artist of unique vision creates heretofore unseen and dynamic images, then we all will benefit as fans of tiki art.

Here's the one painting I've done that is meant to capture the spirit of '70's velvet just before the crash:

"Godlight"

Post #382732 by Robb Hamel on Tue, May 27, 2008 4:34 PM