Post #665893 by Tiki Shark Art on Fri, Feb 1, 2013 7:45 PM

Aloha Tiki Tribe!
It's another "Happy Aloha Friday Night" that means, I'm here, your "Old Uncle Creepy-Tiki" to bring you another Creature-Feature!
Tonight's tropical terror treat is director/pro-surfer Greg Browning's short movie "The Disappearance"; It's a tiki-rific tale of The Body Glove Pro-Surf Team as they travel to a remote island and follow a local map to a secret cove for the perfect wave...what they find is a perfectly petrifying sea monster with a hunger for professional surfers!
Here's the fright flick: http://surf.transworld.net/1000151561/videos/imaginarium-body-gloves-the-disappearance/

After that you can change your surf-shorts, and watch the "making of..." here: http://surf.transworld.net/1000151677/videos/imaginarium-behind-the-scenes-with-body-glove/

This all was the inspiration for my latest tiki-art painting - The Body glove Sea Creature" . I took some time off to create a set of Tiki-Mugs based on the painting (which is based on the short film) but now I'm back on the painting, laying in semi-transparent strokes of acrylic color. I finally got the texture I wanted on the palm tree on the right...

And The moon looks about done...radioactive south pacific 1950's monster making color there!
Now I would really like to get the dramatic light across the creatures face - ala Bela Lugosi in...well, I think in ALL his movies. IT's harder to do than it looks, for some reason it keeps looking like paint not light...so still getting there...