Post #449428 by Tiki Shark Art on Fri, Apr 24, 2009 1:20 PM

Robb,

Thanks man. I was always fraid I'd look like everyone else. I thought I was going to look like THOR, or Todd Schorr, or Mark Ryden. I mean, I was trying to! I figured it's a good way to learn to paint. Then, I realized I couldn't look exactly like them if I even tried - somehow that thing called "individual style" creeps out no matter what you do. Especially if I'm painting from made up material... meaning not only working from photographic scrap, but winging some imaginary thingie in there too.

I guess the big fight is then becoming at peace with how each of our individual art "style" looks.
That, and being more careful to not mix orange and green too much.

Love the velvets! Can I ask, how much are original Velvets going for? ( you can PM me on that) I gotta thank you for something. I'm just starting to do "printed beach towels". I was too intimidated to even start designing them. Then it hit me. I gotta think of the beach towel as a black velvet canvas... and create a painting on it! Actually the best design came out more like the old "black velvet black-light" posters I loved in the 70's.

I think it worked, because we just got an order for 5,000.00 of "Lady of the Lava". Of course we'll see if the factory completey screws up the order or not and we end up making any money on it... or not. But, the cool thing is: a whole bunch of tiki images will get out into the world!

R U going to enter SPECTRUM this coming year? Please do! Me and Ken are trying to round up Tiki Artists and make an assault on main stream culture by getting as many TC artists to enter. So far it's me, Ken, and Big Toe for sure. I'd love to see a black velvet in there! They've NEVER had black velvet painting represented!

I also want Crazy Al to enter! There is a "dimensional" catagory. A hand carved tiki would blow their minds!

Mahalo from the BI
B~