Post #444460 by Iokona Ki'i on Thu, Apr 2, 2009 6:49 PM

Thanks Mike and Sam!
Hopefully my velvets will turn out the same!
Fingers crossed.

Speaking of velvets, a good friend of ours is the wonderful
pinup artist Olivia, http://www.eolivia.com, who does incredible Bettie Page paintings
among others. She is a fan of our line Fluff, http://www.fluffshop.com, which is how we initially
met many years ago. And, of course we're big fans of her! Well, she saw some of the stuff
Claudette and I have been working on on the side...some posted on TC...and has invited us
to contribute to her upcoming art show celebrating Miss Bettie.
Pretty Cool!...and scary! Especially since it is in May!
And I've never attempted to draw/paint Bettie Page before!
And I'm just starting to learn how to paint on velvet!
And it's gonna be shown along side Olivia!

So I have decided to do a Velvet Bettie with Tiki.
I'm gonna post some sketches and see which one get the
the best response and go from there.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

P.S. I'll post info about the show soon under Cal events!
All I know so far is it's gonna be crazy!

In progress sketch...ran out of paper room...bit dodgy...
...wonky...fugly...but, gotta start somewhere...

Wahiniana Art by Iokona

[ Edited by: Iokona Ki'i 2009-04-07 11:42 ]