The Lurid low-brow Tiki-Art of Brad (tiki-shark) Parker - Other Crafts

TSA Tiki Shark Art Member Joined: Aug 31, 2006 Posts: 3978	TSA Tiki Shark Art Posted posted on Wed, Aug 5, 2009 11:07 AM Aloha Tki Tribe! teaKEY - Ryden! Oh baby, I LOVE my new Mark Ryden art book, and you can tell I'm looking at it at night under the coves with my flash light. Of course, this squid-hula girl may be "too old" for Mark Ryden. He likes his women a bit younger.... er hem... like abut 8 or 9 I think... (snicker!) Anyways, thanks, I'm falttered you think I even come close to looking like one of the great low brow masters! Robb Hamel ~ Style. That's a hard thing for me to talk about. I always think I have "no style". I ALWAYS start by copying other artist's work. It's a place for me to start from. If I look like Ryden a little, I take that as a big complement! I'm completely setting out to be inspired by Mark Ryden, and Lori Earley, Todd Schorr, Robertt Williams, and Thor, and Swampfire, and LLT and Robb Hamel! Anyone who can show me how to get started painting tikis the way I think I need to paint them. I freely admit it! I need the help, the jump start, the spark! THEN, I found out, that no matter how hard I try to exactly copy someone Else's work, the uncontrollable "organic power" that is the "creative process" leads it off into another direction and it ends up looking like something I never imagined. If I want it to or not! Really, it's amazing how little control I seem to have over the look of the final piece. I'm as surprised as everyone else with the look of the final painting. I think it was THOR that stated some where in his thread, that all artists start out emulating another artist's work which inspires them. That's how we learn. Eventually our own visual language forms and we're create a new style. Our own style. If I even have one, yet. I know There is no way I have the discipline to exactly copy someone Else's style for any length of time. I can barely reproduce my style! Anyways, here's what I got in last night: I'm off ot Maui for a few days, to peddel my prints to some galleries and see what happening on the "inner Islands". Back this week end. Big aloha and big Mahalo! (...and if it does look exactly like a Ryden, maybe I can get a ton more $$$ for it! Hey, could happen!)

Aloha Tki Tribe!
teaKEY - Ryden! Oh baby, I LOVE my new Mark Ryden art book, and you can tell I'm looking at it at night under the coves with my flash light. Of course, this squid-hula girl may be "too old" for Mark Ryden. He likes his women a bit younger.... er hem... like abut 8 or 9 I think... (snicker!) Anyways, thanks, I'm falttered you think I even come close to looking like one of the great low brow masters!
Robb Hamel ~ Style. That's a hard thing for me to talk about. I always think I have "no style". I
ALWAYS start by copying other artist's work. It's a place for me to start from.

If I look like Ryden a little, I take that as a big complement! I'm completely setting out to be inspired by Mark Ryden, and Lori Earley, Todd Schorr, Robertt Williams, and Thor, and Swampfire, and LLT and Robb Hamel! Anyone who can show me how to get started painting tikis the way I think I need to paint them. I freely admit it! I need the help, the jump start, the spark!

THEN, I found out, that no matter how hard I try to exactly copy someone Else's work, the uncontrollable "organic power" that is the "creative process" leads it off into another direction and it ends up looking like something I never imagined. If I want it to or not! Really, it's amazing how little control I seem to have over the look of the final piece. I'm as surprised as everyone else with the look of the final painting.

I think it was THOR that stated some where in his thread, that all artists start out emulating another artist's work which inspires them. That's how we learn. Eventually our own visual language forms and we're create a new style. Our own style. If I even have one, yet.

I know There is no way I have the discipline to exactly copy someone Else's style for any length of time. I can barely reproduce my style!

Anyways, here's what I got in last night:

I'm off ot Maui for a few days, to peddel my prints to some galleries and see what happening on the "inner Islands". Back this week end.

Big aloha and big Mahalo!

(...and if it does look exactly like a Ryden, maybe I can get a ton more $$$ for it! Hey, could happen!)

Post #474769 by Tiki Shark Art on Wed, Aug 5, 2009 11:07 AM