Post #650446 by Tiki Shark Art on Sun, Sep 2, 2012 12:49 AM

Aloha Tiki Tribe!

Next step on "Hawaiian Eye - Episode Two" (a commission)
Finally got a good night sky going. took 4 to 5 layers of semi-transparent acrylic paint to get a smooth moon-light to dark edges blue-ness. This is the hard way, I know, it's painting the sky 4 or 5 times to get one smooth one. Acrylic dries so fast you can't really smooth it out like oils. I've seen wonderful smooth acrylic paintings with no visible brush strokes. Amazing. I love that, but I sort of love some brush strokes too. Let's you know it's a painting... there's the hand of an artist in there laboring away with a brush to get an effect. But, a wonderful well rendered painting takes time to get... at least for me. I don't know a easy fast way to do that... just the long hard way. Art isn't easy, I suppose.

Next will be stars, and the Cat moon, and I'm getting down to the fun parts like the Zombie and the Tiki.
More 2 come
ALOHA!