BODY GLOVE Tiki-Mug Release Party! in Kailua-Kona Oct 24th-25th 2013! pg 2 - Other Events

TSA Tiki Shark Art Member Joined: Aug 31, 2006 Posts: 3978	TSA Tiki Shark Art Posted posted on Thu, May 31, 2012 12:09 AM ALOHA TIKI TRIbE! HAD A GREAT TIME at the WYKAND ~ maybe the best time so far for a local show,. Hope I got to spend a little time with everyone who took the time out of their Friday night and stopped in to say aloha, see the wok in person, and yeah, I guess you can tell the difference tween a really high end giclee on a canvas and an original - after about 7 people pointed it out to me! yeah... nothing like a one of a kind original. I think...... maybe I'm finally learning to paint...a nd it's making difference. And of course, a very big special ALOJJ+HA MAHAO NIU for the poplem wo bought magnets... postcards... gicee on paper and ultra swank giclee on canvas... and super utra -duper swanky original acrylic on canvas! ( !!! AND A VERY big mahalo to the wonderful sales staff and art experts at the Wyland Kona Gallery. And a special kudos to my tiki-sista PAM!) I know when I arrived a few years back with some of the WEIRDEST art they had ever seen... and it was like nothing like what they were currenty showing in their gallery... they really did not...er....!! really didn't know a whole lot about the "low brow" and "tiki art" subculture. (to say the least!!!) And it has not been an easy learning process on both sides. But, I will always remember that first meeting Abbas (my partner/art agent) and I had with Mark Hanna the Wyland Kona gallery owner. We went into a back room, I pulled out all these originals AND some high end giclees on canvas... and I will always, always remember Mark's face.... it changed. It went from the polite (oh gosh I gotta look at ANOTHER "OKAY" painting of a Hawaiian land scape or a sea turtle...yet again, and find a nice way to tell them we already have several very, extremely, good artists painting that exact thing...) and then he saw my stuff. His jaw fell open and he got this look like a little kid gets then they sees a really cool toy robot for the first time.... It was sort of a confused look. Like "You can't Pant THAT and get away with it... can you?" Thanks for that look Mark. Thanks for showing my work in the front window. Big Aloha, and Mahalo nui! now... wow... now they have Martin Denny playing on the sound system when I just stop in... and they are now telling me about "hey did you see the latest issue of Tiki Magazine or Hi Furctose yet? " Wow, what a change! I feel really at home here, and owner Mark Hanna and Jill Weiss (Art consultant) have been really a big part of this. Thanks! Wyland Kona Oceanfront Gallery 75-5770 Alii Dr Kailua Kona, HI 96740-1782 Phone – (808) 334-0037 Toll Free – (888) 435-6612 Email – [email protected] Gallery web site: http://www.wylandbigisland.com/ Or contact me at [email protected] [ Edited by: tiki shark art 2013-06-14 02:08 ]

ALOHA TIKI TRIbE! HAD A GREAT TIME at the WYKAND ~ maybe the best time so far for a local show,.

Hope I got to spend a little time with everyone who took the time out of their Friday night and stopped in to say aloha, see the wok in person, and yeah, I guess you can tell the difference tween a really high end giclee on a canvas and an original - after about 7 people pointed it out to me! yeah... nothing like a one of a kind original. I think...... maybe I'm finally learning to paint...a nd it's making difference. And of course, a very big special ALOJJ+HA MAHAO NIU for the poplem wo bought magnets... postcards... gicee on paper and ultra swank giclee on canvas... and super utra -duper swanky original acrylic on canvas!
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!!! AND A VERY big mahalo to the wonderful sales staff and art experts at the Wyland Kona Gallery. And a special kudos to my tiki-sista PAM!) I know when I arrived a few years back with some of the WEIRDEST art they had ever seen... and it was like nothing like what they were currenty showing in their gallery... they really did not...er....!! really didn't know a whole lot about the "low brow" and "tiki art" subculture. (to say the least!!!) And it has not been an easy learning process on both sides.

But, I will always remember that first meeting Abbas (my partner/art agent) and I had with Mark Hanna the Wyland Kona gallery owner. We went into a back room, I pulled out all these originals AND some high end giclees on canvas... and I will always, always remember Mark's face.... it changed. It went from the polite (oh gosh I gotta look at ANOTHER "OKAY" painting of a Hawaiian land scape or a sea turtle...yet again, and find a nice way to tell them we already have several very, extremely, good artists painting that exact thing...) and then he saw my stuff. His jaw fell open and he got this look like a little kid gets then they sees a really cool toy robot for the first time.... It was sort of a confused look. Like "You can't Pant THAT and get away with it... can you?"

Thanks for that look Mark. Thanks for showing my work in the front window.
Big Aloha, and Mahalo nui!

now... wow... now they have Martin Denny playing on the sound system when I just stop in... and they are now telling me about "hey did you see the latest issue of Tiki Magazine or Hi Furctose yet? "

Wow, what a change! I feel really at home here, and owner Mark Hanna and Jill Weiss (Art consultant) have been really a big part of this. Thanks!
Wyland Kona Oceanfront Gallery
75-5770 Alii Dr
Kailua Kona, HI 96740-1782
Phone – (808) 334-0037
Toll Free – (888) 435-6612
Email – [email protected]
Gallery web site: http://www.wylandbigisland.com/
Or contact me at [email protected]

[ Edited by: tiki shark art 2013-06-14 02:08 ]

Post #638625 by Tiki Shark Art on Thu, May 31, 2012 12:09 AM