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 Thu, Jul 26, 2012 7:58 AM Aloha tiki Tribe! Working out the comp of the next painting still... this sketch is getting close. I got the important elements I wanted to visually "talk" about into the scene... Looming face of Mystery Woman "She-Bat" watching over Honolulu/Gotham. Classic Car racing down the blvd... A Zombie holding a swanky tropical drink in a... ...Really cool, moist & dripping, Tiki Mug. Exotic tropical flowers... these are even a bit more surreal then I've done before... with a tad of tentacles and octopuses mixed in Guess I'm mixing a little Cthulhu into my Orchids. (Showing my love of Lovecraft!) Tropical sun setting into the pacific ocean. Raising out of the tropical drink is a wahine-spirit showing how potent the concoction is! Some strange lookin' palm trees. A Swank looking Tiki Bar with a mysterious female stranger in the doorway... I warped all the perspective lines to meld the elements together *& I think it really helped bring it all in to a nice composition, instead of leaving a bunch of disconnected elements. ... now to think about light sources, warm light, cool shadows... Let's see.. well, there's a warm red/orange/yellow sunset. So, they She-Bat will be green/Blue to stand out along with much of the Tiki Bar and Palm Trees... or do I have She-Bat a red color too, so she becomes part of the back ground and looks more like a phantom watching over the city? Hmmmm....If the Tiki Bar is cool colors, the inside of the tiki bar it has to be warm colors... the car can be warm colors to stand out from a cool toned street - it's metal reflecting the red sun set sky I guess. I suppose I should once again try the layering effect: do a monochromatic under-painting and then laying in thin tints of color over that till I get what colors I want... this might save me from major screw ups. But, it's a tricky process, and you can end up just re-painting instead of "tinting". Eating up lots of time. Like painting the painting twice. ... it takes practice. Hmmmm. So, to break it into a foreground - creating framing devices. Then a middle ground area. & then a back ground, .. it's all about creating depth, depth depth... and... I would like to try for a really great deep sky. Which I think I achieved on "Zombie-Tiki-Girl" (which is my new favorite sky I've yet painted)... so, a moon and stars along with the setting sun... all in a nice rich red and orange range. Guess I can start there and work forward and hope for the best. Sound like a plan? More to come! ALOHA B~ [ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2012-07-28 02:17 ]

Aloha tiki Tribe!
Working out the comp of the next painting still... this sketch is getting close.

I got the important elements I wanted to visually "talk" about into the scene...

Looming face of Mystery Woman "She-Bat" watching over Honolulu/Gotham.
Classic Car racing down the blvd...
A Zombie holding a swanky tropical drink in a...
...Really cool, moist & dripping, Tiki Mug.
Exotic tropical flowers... these are even a bit more surreal then I've done before... with a tad of tentacles and octopuses mixed in Guess I'm mixing a little Cthulhu into my Orchids. (Showing my love of Lovecraft!)
Tropical sun setting into the pacific ocean.
Raising out of the tropical drink is a wahine-spirit showing how potent the concoction is!
Some strange lookin' palm trees.
A Swank looking Tiki Bar with a mysterious female stranger in the doorway...

I warped all the perspective lines to meld the elements together *& I think it really helped bring it all in to a nice composition, instead of leaving a bunch of disconnected elements.

... now to think about light sources, warm light, cool shadows... Let's see.. well, there's a warm red/orange/yellow sunset. So, they She-Bat will be green/Blue to stand out along with much of the Tiki Bar and Palm Trees... or do I have She-Bat a red color too, so she becomes part of the back ground and looks more like a phantom watching over the city? Hmmmm....If the Tiki Bar is cool colors, the inside of the tiki bar it has to be warm colors... the car can be warm colors to stand out from a cool toned street - it's metal reflecting the red sun set sky I guess.

I suppose I should once again try the layering effect: do a monochromatic under-painting and then laying in thin tints of color over that till I get what colors I want... this might save me from major screw ups. But, it's a tricky process, and you can end up just re-painting instead of "tinting". Eating up lots of time. Like painting the painting twice. ... it takes practice. Hmmmm.

So, to break it into a foreground - creating framing devices. Then a middle ground area. & then a back ground, .. it's all about creating depth, depth depth... and...

I would like to try for a really great deep sky. Which I think I achieved on "Zombie-Tiki-Girl" (which is my new favorite sky I've yet painted)... so, a moon and stars along with the setting sun... all in a nice rich red and orange range. Guess I can start there and work forward and hope for the best. Sound like a plan?

More to come!
ALOHA
B~

[ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2012-07-28 02:17 ]

Post #645661 by Tiki Shark Art on Thu, Jul 26, 2012 7:58 AM