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, Dec 2, 2009 4:30 PM Aloha Tiki Tribe! Atomic tiki punk~ Big Mahalo! The next painting. Stayed up late, inspired by that amazing moon last night. Worked out some rough sketches. Sketch #1. The title for this painting is "Faster than Disaster" It's inspired by my friend Dale's Kustom '32 coup hot rod - he's building it himself. He lives over on Maui, and we met at my show at the gallery there a few weeks ago. He showed me photos of his hot rod, and the idea to bring some Kustom Kulture aspect into the next Tiki Art piece changed from a mere vague idea into a something a little more. The idea is a hot rod racing away from some "disaster". This first sketch has the disaster being a Godzilla like monster attaching Waikiki. Sketch #2. I decided I wanted to change the format to vertical instead of horizontal. This is to tie into a later idea, too soon to blab about here in case I can't pull it off. Here the disaster is a tiki god. I had just finished hand tinting another wood cut print of "Waikiki Mystery" and I had so much fun with that image I thought it might warrant a full on painting version of that visual. But, the more I looked at it the more "too busy" it became. What's the composition here? I needed to start more basic and not get lost in the details - like I often do. Thumb nails. So I drew small, which forces me to not put in a bee-zillion details. I was also not sure I wanted to paint the image of the angry tiki god reaching down from the sky yet. I might as well wait till I move all of the rest of those wood cuts - and there's not that many left. So, I thought up what other disasters could the hot rod be racing from? I liked the volcano idea. It's an ever present background dread (however subconscious) when you live on the Big Island. More Thumb nails: I drew in some foreground dark shapes to add depth. I want lots of depth in this one. Waikiki is now a Hawaiiana version of Gotham City. The Hot Rod (the actual car has been named "Kreepy Krawler" by Dale's wife Janet) may well be the "Bat mobile" of some Polynesian version of the dark night. I liked the idea of crossing the volcano with a tiki god - so the giant stone moai blowing his top is my disaster. The bottom right is blocking out the comp into more simple shapes to see if it's gonna work. Still sketching... nothing ready to go to canvas yet. Aloha! B~

Aloha Tiki Tribe!
Atomic tiki punk~ Big Mahalo!

The next painting. Stayed up late, inspired by that amazing moon last night. Worked out some rough sketches.

Sketch #1. The title for this painting is "Faster than Disaster"
It's inspired by my friend Dale's Kustom '32 coup hot rod - he's building it himself. He lives over on Maui, and we met at my show at the gallery there a few weeks ago. He showed me photos of his hot rod, and the idea to bring some Kustom Kulture aspect into the next Tiki Art piece changed from a mere vague idea into a something a little more. The idea is a hot rod racing away from some "disaster". This first sketch has the disaster being a Godzilla like monster attaching Waikiki.

Sketch #2. I decided I wanted to change the format to vertical instead of horizontal. This is to tie into a later idea, too soon to blab about here in case I can't pull it off. Here the disaster is a tiki god. I had just finished hand tinting another wood cut print of "Waikiki Mystery" and I had so much fun with that image I thought it might warrant a full on painting version of that visual. But, the more I looked at it the more "too busy" it became. What's the composition here? I needed to start more basic and not get lost in the details - like I often do.

Thumb nails. So I drew small, which forces me to not put in a bee-zillion details. I was also not sure I wanted to paint the image of the angry tiki god reaching down from the sky yet. I might as well wait till I move all of the rest of those wood cuts - and there's not that many left. So, I thought up what other disasters could the hot rod be racing from? I liked the volcano idea. It's an ever present background dread (however subconscious) when you live on the Big Island.

More Thumb nails: I drew in some foreground dark shapes to add depth. I want lots of depth in this one. Waikiki is now a Hawaiiana version of Gotham City. The Hot Rod (the actual car has been named "Kreepy Krawler" by Dale's wife Janet) may well be the "Bat mobile" of some Polynesian version of the dark night. I liked the idea of crossing the volcano with a tiki god - so the giant stone moai blowing his top is my disaster. The bottom right is blocking out the comp into more simple shapes to see if it's gonna work.

Still sketching... nothing ready to go to canvas yet.

Aloha!
B~

Post #496936 by Tiki Shark Art on Wed, Dec 2, 2009 4:30 PM