Post #702930 by Tiki Shark Art on Mon, Dec 23, 2013 11:28 PM

ALOHA TIKI TRIBE!

Kai Koa - In da' works. Things look good. The souvenir company we are in talks with are responsible for every single souvenir tiki you can buy in Hawaii. I think it's all meant to be and got a good feel about it. But, things gotta get worked out... we'll see. It may take a few weeks, my Agent is pushing to get final decisions made by years end.

LLT (Kenny) told me never to go any where with out your sketch book. EVERY DAY you gotta' make some art. So I did. And got some really f=good break through ideas on the painting worked out in the hotel room. Here's some sketches:

Got an idea how of finish the SIGH for the RED TIKI LOUNGE.

Looking' better I think...

Then got kind of a plan of attack on the areas still unfinished on the painting.

Big break through on that weird thing in front of the Chrysler 300 - it's a kinda Dog-Tiki done in a 1930's cartoon style.

There's a dark area on the canvas that needed something...and it might be this cat.

I wanted it to have a shape and flow.

Got a very strange feel on how I wanted this cat to look.

Then there was one tiki to the right of the Crazy Al zombie that needed some thought.

I got to put some paint o the canvas to make him more real.

And I needed to address the question of "RED TIKI LOUNGE" needed the tikis to have some kind of red light or hue to them, so some base transparent layers of red were applied to the blue lighted tikis. It should work out, but looks a bit rough now. However, I dig this challenge, it'll be cool if I can pull it off.

Big Mahalo for watching the paint dry!
Mele Kalikimaka!