Post #481747 by Tiki Shark Art on Sun, Sep 6, 2009 2:16 PM

Aloha Tiki Tribe

Here's da latest...

The octo-goth-hula-wahine has still many many layers of semi-transparent watery acrylic to be applied before she becomes her final flesh. But, she's getting there...ever so slowly. I hope I can finish this painting in time to be revealed at my very first art show here in Hawaii.

I got an art show! I am being shown in a "fine art" gallery in Lahaina, on Maui on Sept 17 to 19. Sargents Fine Art and Jewelery. I'll be there, doing original tiki drawings for those art patrons who purchase a painting or a giclee.

I gotta admit I'm nervous! I've never shown in a "fine" art gallery. It's always been in "Tiki friendly environments". Tiki themed group shows, or tiki themed one man shows. All in So Cal where there is a very large population of the tiki sub-culture. I could hang with the tiki peeps, and my art buddies Ken Ruzic or Big Toe, Tubunga, or Squid, (and guzzle a rum drink). Lahaina is all wine and cheese. I have no idea how my work will go over on Maui, in Lahaina: land of many high end fine (NOT low-brow) art galleries.

I may be the first low-brow artist to be shown there. I'm concerned people will not "get it", nothing will sell, and I'll end up living on the beach and selling coconuts. Oh well, you have to try, to find out.

Find out more about the show at http://www.sargentsfineart.com

Mahalo!
More to come...
b~