Post #684186 by danlovestikis on Mon, Jul 1, 2013 7:10 AM

lunavideogames Hale Tikis ideas were really good, thank you for the kind comments on my part of the creations. We like both Storage Wars (Barry is sexy) and Pawn Stars. I guess it's more like Antique Roadshow.

Progress Report on the painting for Tiki Oasis 13

Lighting changes the colors dramatically. It is really dark red and black.

I started our yesterday by painting the foliage around the trees.

Sorry for the blurry photos. I next added the foreground and a fire in a pit.

McTiki did another tiki design that he has allowed me to use for the painting. I printed it out the size I wanted and used this silver pen to outline it on the canvas. Shortcuts really help.

The silver ran under the photo but it came off easily since I didn't wait to remove it.

It would have been best to paint the tiki black and then do highlights like Robb Hamel does his black velvets but with a black background I'll have to work it out with the dark added.

Here I've just roughed in the outline of the tikis body parts.

Hale Tikis mugs

His out of the bisque fire and washed. Nothing broke off so glazing is next.

Maddy's out of the bisque fire and washed. I really worried about parts exploding off this mug but if came out just fine.

This is a photo of the glazing instructions from Hale Tiki and the glazes I bought to do the trick.
My head was spinning after reading these and these are only for his mug!!!

I have one more load to sand for the crawl mugs so they can bisque fire then I'll be glazing the rest of the summer while I finish this painting.

Thank you for the visit, Wendy