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 Wed, Nov 27, 2013 5:06 AM Aloha Tiki Tribe! So ...I'm STILL working on "THE RED TIKI LOUNGE" - wow, so many many other projects have interrupted this painting, it's Almost a joke now! Sheesh, what else can happen?!! Never mind I said that! PLEASE! Oh, I better not ask that question - tempting the tiki gods is not a good thing... I'm sure they would be all too happy to show me just exactly the hundred million OTHER things that could happen to draw away my time from painting if I requested it in some snarky comment! Oh, no. I promise, I will be happy, and as full of "ALOHA" as I can be, and I am so happy and grateful I am able to paint, and paint a Tiki-painting, that I am finding very challenging, and ever more involving. Okay, the tiki-gods are appeased, I hope. Onward! So here we are now... This is the general area of the painting I am working on right now. The sign age, of the TIKI LOUNGE. Here's me putting brush to canvas, Here's the pulp comic-book character a friend of mine, Dærick Gröss Sr., created and owns named "She-Bat"- which is seen in this painting with his permission. I'm treating her like a fictional character akin to "The Shadow"; reminiscent of a character from the 1930's in a "Tiki-Lounge noir-action novel". He was one of early mentors..my 2nd I think. And he taught me a lot about comic book art, and anatomy drawing. See more of his amazing art work- please visit his FB page and "Friend" him. https://www.facebook.com/nrichard.gross?fref=ts&__rev=1024226 Here's the Lounge Signage (all so important in a good moody Tiki Lounge/Bar) I'm working on. 24" x 30" Canvas Acrylic paint. I'm sneaking up to a larger brush to try to move faster, A "Winsor & Newton Universtiy Series 233 England" - #1 or a #2 or even a #3 sometimes, but it so far doesn't seem to be making the painting get done any faster! Here's the whole image so far. Lots has been done, paths have gone down, then discovered they were the wrong way, and back tracking has been done. But, I am still excited about this image. So every month, on my calendar, I write across the top, "NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS DO NOT STOP MAKING ART!" This has been one of those months where I needed to see those words a few times to remind me of what is important. Thanks for watching the paint dry! ALOHA! Brad's imaginary Low-Brow Art Muse sez: "Dead-line means you get it done before your dead ya know." [ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2013-11-27 05:09 ]

Aloha Tiki Tribe!
So ...I'm STILL working on "THE RED TIKI LOUNGE" - wow, so many many other projects have interrupted this painting, it's Almost a joke now! Sheesh, what else can happen?!! Never mind I said that! PLEASE! Oh, I better not ask that question - tempting the tiki gods is not a good thing... I'm sure they would be all too happy to show me just exactly the hundred million OTHER things that could happen to draw away my time from painting if I requested it in some snarky comment!
Oh, no. I promise, I will be happy, and as full of "ALOHA" as I can be, and I am so happy and grateful I am able to paint, and paint a Tiki-painting, that I am finding very challenging, and ever more involving.
Okay, the tiki-gods are appeased, I hope. Onward!
So here we are now...

This is the general area of the painting I am working on right now. The sign age, of the TIKI LOUNGE.

Here's me putting brush to canvas,

Here's the pulp comic-book character a friend of mine, Dærick Gröss Sr., created and owns named "She-Bat"- which is seen in this painting with his permission. I'm treating her like a fictional character akin to "The Shadow"; reminiscent of a character from the 1930's in a "Tiki-Lounge noir-action novel". He was one of early mentors..my 2nd I think. And he taught me a lot about comic book art, and anatomy drawing. See more of his amazing art work- please visit his FB page and "Friend" him.
https://www.facebook.com/nrichard.gross?fref=ts&__rev=1024226

Here's the Lounge Signage (all so important in a good moody Tiki Lounge/Bar) I'm working on.

24" x 30"
Canvas
Acrylic paint.
I'm sneaking up to a larger brush to try to move faster, A "Winsor & Newton Universtiy Series 233 England" - #1 or a #2 or even a #3 sometimes, but it so far doesn't seem to be making the painting get done any faster!
Here's the whole image so far. Lots has been done, paths have gone down, then discovered they were the wrong way, and back tracking has been done. But, I am still excited about this image.

So every month, on my calendar, I write across the top, "NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS DO NOT STOP MAKING ART!"
This has been one of those months where I needed to see those words a few times to remind me of what is important.
Thanks for watching the paint dry!
ALOHA!

Brad's imaginary Low-Brow Art Muse sez:
"Dead-line means you get it done before your dead ya know."

[ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2013-11-27 05:09 ]

Post #700580 by Tiki Shark Art on Wed, Nov 27, 2013 5:06 AM