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, Feb 3, 2010 1:15 PM Iokona Ki'i ~ Frankenstein on Fatu Hiva! Thanks! That's a good one! I was thinking maybe Frankenstein on Fiji, or "the monster" on Maui. (Cause it's Frankenstein's monster not Frankenstein the doctor n' all like dat) but, I like your idea! Fatu Hiva has a Tiki Culture literary connection with Thor Heyerdahl. "The Mummy of Maui" did cross my mind. :) Yeah I do really try to take in all the help I get from TC. I use any help that makes sense to me. Although, honestly, I think a few times folks came up with great ideas and I was like about 90% done and WAY over working on that particular piece, so I may have moved on without implementing their sage advice. LOVE the velvets by the way! whiskeyblood ~ BIG THANKS! I knew there was some tiki / horror movie fans like me out there somewhere! Well, I wasn't sure. I did the Were wolf, and that was leading off Tiki Cat. Then, I figured the Were Wolf was a monster so, why not the Kreature... then it's a slippery slope to all the classic monsters. I know I want to finish the four, not sure if Ill keep going or not yet. I have this big canvas for "faster than Disaster" that's waiting. little lost tiki ~ Oh gosh YEAH! The darned phone! Oh you said it brother!! (ah...am I beginning to talk like Hulk Hogan?) You are so right, it's all gotta' come together in some weird super calm ignore-everything-in-the-real-world right-brain/left-brain Vulcan mind meld. Somedays it's impossible to get there. You're smart, your art studio is separate from your home. I still sling paint at home... so there's a lot of distractions. First, you have to do all the mundane house stuff. Then, work stuff like office-paper-work and shipping and like all that ...that takes hours. Days! THEN, when your doing the art, sometimes it takes an hour or so of working just to warm up and get into the groove. Then you can really begin making the art! And of course, there's the dreaded dark time you spend slouched in the corner of the room and glare at the painting in shock while you are thinking "What the heck am I doing? Nobody is going to buy this!" That's the place you must try to never go to... it's certain doom for any artist. (But, I spend about half my time there.) Basically, I think it helps if you are more crazy and obsessive then you are normal and practical. Oh well, all the fun parts of being an artist! Here's where I am now... still have not gotten to the Lei. ALOHA! B~

Iokona Ki'i ~ Frankenstein on Fatu Hiva! Thanks! That's a good one! I was thinking maybe Frankenstein on Fiji, or "the monster" on Maui. (Cause it's Frankenstein's monster not Frankenstein the doctor n' all like dat) but, I like your idea! Fatu Hiva has a Tiki Culture literary connection with Thor Heyerdahl. "The Mummy of Maui" did cross my mind. :) Yeah I do really try to take in all the help I get from TC. I use any help that makes sense to me. Although, honestly, I think a few times folks came up with great ideas and I was like about 90% done and WAY over working on that particular piece, so I may have moved on without implementing their sage advice. LOVE the velvets by the way!
whiskeyblood ~ BIG THANKS! I knew there was some tiki / horror movie fans like me out there somewhere! Well, I wasn't sure. I did the Were wolf, and that was leading off Tiki Cat. Then, I figured the Were Wolf was a monster so, why not the Kreature... then it's a slippery slope to all the classic monsters. I know I want to finish the four, not sure if Ill keep going or not yet. I have this big canvas for "faster than Disaster" that's waiting.
little lost tiki ~ Oh gosh YEAH! The darned phone! Oh you said it brother!! (ah...am I beginning to talk like Hulk Hogan?) You are so right, it's all gotta' come together in some weird super calm ignore-everything-in-the-real-world right-brain/left-brain Vulcan mind meld. Somedays it's impossible to get there.
You're smart, your art studio is separate from your home. I still sling paint at home... so there's a lot of distractions. First, you have to do all the mundane house stuff. Then, work stuff like office-paper-work and shipping and like all that ...that takes hours. Days!
THEN, when your doing the art, sometimes it takes an hour or so of working just to warm up and get into the groove. Then you can really begin making the art! And of course, there's the dreaded dark time you spend slouched in the corner of the room and glare at the painting in shock while you are thinking "What the heck am I doing? Nobody is going to buy this!" That's the place you must try to never go to... it's certain doom for any artist. (But, I spend about half my time there.)
Basically, I think it helps if you are more crazy and obsessive then you are normal and practical. Oh well, all the fun parts of being an artist!

Here's where I am now... still have not gotten to the Lei.

ALOHA!
B~

Post #508764 by Tiki Shark Art on Wed, Feb 3, 2010 1:15 PM