Post #477370 by Tiki Shark Art on Sun, Aug 16, 2009 4:46 PM

Hewey~ Thanks, I appreciate the good mojo. Keeps me going. And I really like watching other artist's work out their creative process, and that's why I lay mine out here too - mistakes and all. And, SHEESH, I just realized there's a huge mistake in this current painting.

I started painting in the sea cliffs, and decided that I toatally need to rethink the stone head. Here's a photo shopped rearrangement. I may paint it out completely now...
Speaking of DVDs - Elvis Presley in "Clam Bake" is on TCM today. That Tiki beach party scene is a HOOT!
Robb Hamel~ Like I say I dig seeing other artist's process, and a lot of the times I get really good feed back from TC. There are some very talented people here. Often I get PM's when I might be hitting a wall. GROG has art directed me from afar a few times with great results. He's a highly talented professional, ya' know - no matter what everyone sez.
Alohastation~ Ha! Thanks. I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to... but it made me chuckle when I read it. Being inside the mind of ANY artist (especially me) could very well be a messy (and odor-ific) event! Fo' Shure!

Well, today is Aug 16th. On this day in 1956 Bela Lugosi passed away, at age 73. I'm a big fan of Bela, so today I guess I'll throw on some dvd's - like "Dracula","Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein", and "Phantom Creeps"."White Zombie" is, I think, Bela's best work, and it's in his make up from "White Zombie" that I painted Bela in this painting:

"Bela Lugosi Has a Zombie"
This was my favorite painting I did so far. I sold this painting to a collector -strange, I thought this was such a obscure cross reference of "old horror movies" and "Modern Tiki culture" that no one would get it, but me. I'd have it forever. However, it sold, and it won entry into next year's "Spectrum: the Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art" book, and a "fine-art" gallery on Maui was interested in it. So, what I thought was deep sub culture and extreme "Low Brow" art was one of my best received pieces. Not sure what all that means, but that I should just paint what's in my heart... not worry about how it's received. (But, ya gotta' pay da' rent, so you worry.)
And speaking of not being able to pay my rent, I think I'm going to give away some art -free! Free! FREE! On the next Koop Kooper interview on Cocktail nation (so it'll be out next Saturday Aug 22nd) I'll give away a swanky giclee of "Bela Lugosi Has a Zombie".

Here's to you Mr. Lugosi!