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 Fri, Dec 16, 2011 11:25 PM ALOHA TIKI TRIBE! Thanks BigToe! Thanks so much buddy, hearing words of encouragement from you - an artist I respect and whose work I REALLY dig - that helps me slog through when there seems to be waaaay too many sharks to have to paint! tigertail777 - Well it's funny, I sometimes need to really work out the the structure, but I know what you mean, sometimes that kills the freshness of the piece. Sometimes I just want to do no sketches and let the piece organically grow and evolve on the canvas. But this one... with sooo many sharks, I felt I needed to figure out how they were all going to fit, I had to work out perspective and depth and all that stuff, how they were going to look turned just this way or that... at least I'm learning a lot more about how sharks look by having to draw them from all these different angles. ...And this painting is special because it came from a dream image. I was reading "Kon Tiki". I fell asleep, and I had this dream. In the dream all the sharks and fish were so interesting and detailed I really want to get that across as much as I can in this painting. We'll see how close I can get.... probably no where nears, but heck, ya' gotta try n' go for it. More laters!

ALOHA TIKI TRIBE!
Thanks BigToe! Thanks so much buddy, hearing words of encouragement from you - an artist I respect and whose work I REALLY dig - that helps me slog through when there seems to be waaaay too many sharks to have to paint!
tigertail777 - Well it's funny, I sometimes need to really work out the the structure, but I know what you mean, sometimes that kills the freshness of the piece. Sometimes I just want to do no sketches and let the piece organically grow and evolve on the canvas. But this one... with sooo many sharks, I felt I needed to figure out how they were all going to fit, I had to work out perspective and depth and all that stuff, how they were going to look turned just this way or that... at least I'm learning a lot more about how sharks look by having to draw them from all these different angles.

...And this painting is special because it came from a dream image. I was reading "Kon Tiki". I fell asleep, and I had this dream. In the dream all the sharks and fish were so interesting and detailed I really want to get that across as much as I can in this painting. We'll see how close I can get.... probably no where nears, but heck, ya' gotta try n' go for it.

More laters!

Post #617611 by Tiki Shark Art on Fri, Dec 16, 2011 11:25 PM