TSA
Joined: Aug 31, 2006
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TSA
Aloha Tiki Tribe!
Atomic Tiki Punk - Big Big Mahalo! During the last minute late night finishing up sessions before this painting's un veiling at the art show tomorrow, it's sure nice to read comments as kind as yours.
Here's last night's work. After much consideration, and even the purchase of some flowers from the local farmer's market for reference, I decided that I did not need to paint in flowers in the foreground. The Ku-thulhuian hula girl (ouch, did I just mash Hawaiian and Lovecraftian subculture so early in the morning?) ...anyways, her tentacles are so complex, the addition of exotic flowers made the painting too busy at the bottom. I had added them in as framing devices in my last two pieces (Tiki Cat and The Exotic Traveler), but this one doesn't need them.
Instead I choose to focus all possible effort on making the stippling of the "sandy beach" as good as I could.
Almost there. Maybe only the dabbing on if a few more hundred thousand dobs of color and the beach will be done.
The show in Maui is Tomorrow night!
I HAVE to finish the painting today . Then, I gotta' drive it up to the north side of the island where my printer will professionally scan it so it can later be recreated as one of them-thar high end giclees.
Big Aloha,
Brad~
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