Post #673887 by Gwen on Tue, Apr 9, 2013 9:49 PM

Atomic Punk (I like your moniker), I don't claim to be an total purist. But then neither is somebody like Brad Parker, who often mixes tiki with a love of old school monsters, etc. Nor that other fabulous guy (I have forgotten his name) who's very wonderful work I have seen on here who's work features things like tiki flying in rocket ships. Their stuff is both very tiki and also a take off point to riff on funny personal passions. I know that mine (my dogs) are not something as universal as, say, the creature from the Black Lagoon. But the affectionate and humorous intent is similar. And I would argue that there is a lot more that is tiki going on in my painting than just the figures themselves. We have the lava fields and lava flows, the volcanic mountains, the Japanese fishing float lamp, the tropical foliage and banana tree and the palm trees and tiki torches which are going to be in the final panel. And the mid century color scheme, for those like myself are into vintage exotica. To me, it is very tiki indeed. Even- or especially- my ultra laid back beach bum of a dog. But if the consensus here is that this is in violation of good tiki taste, I will keep my posts to carving.

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On 2013-04-09 19:17, Atomic Tiki Punk wrote:
Hi Gwen,

You have the Artistic chops for sure, but I have to question the concept
on this particular Triptych, it is not a focused choice of subject

As a matter of fact the only thing Tiki are the two Tikis on the sides
the dog is the primary focus of the pictures with the prehistoric back ground as the secondary
(You must ether love dogs or have this Greyhound as a pet & was compelled to include it on this piece)
you have already lost the focus of the subject matter.

So what I see is this, A Greyhound & two Tikis some how go back in time to the Jurassic period
& the Greyhound is about to become Teradactyl chow, was this what you wanted to convey?

But your execution is very nice & I look forward to more of your work in the future
(see, this is what happens when you ask someone who has done to many years in Art school, "what do they think?") :lol: