Post #704846 by Tiki Shark Art on Fri, Jan 17, 2014 1:59 AM

Aloha Tiki Tribe.
I have two paintings I am starting. "Ken Ruzic the Grey Tiki-Wizard" (one of the 5 Tiki-Wizards in Tiki-Middle-Earth), has told me it's good to work on two as you can bounce back and forth, if one gets old, or you get stuck, you can switch over to the other painting, thus keeping the art flow fresh.
Sounds good. He is such a wise Tiki-Wizard!

One painting is a huge thing. Here is the seed if the idea:

A hot time in tiki town tonight. Giant tiki, tiki bar, classic cars. My Tiki-Noir theme again.

Here the giant tiki is fire breathing.

Here the tiki Bar is replaced by the art patron's place of business, he is commissioning this piece - so it'll feature his giant liquor store. "Liquor World"!
The idea will be to have a giant tiki, a giant big foot, a giant t-Rex, and a giant Saber Tooth Tiger (all but the Tiki are actually IN his shop!) they will be
smokin' and drinking and playing cards, using the roof of the building as a table. Fun huh? but there's more...
A classic car show in the parking lot, and a drag race tween a hot rod and a Triceratops (he also has that in his store!), plus a rock band of
animated skeletons playing for the crowd. His store has lots of fun events like car shows and live music. Lots more sketching to do.
This is a huge canvas- the biggest I've ever painted.
Should be ... interesting.

The second painting is a follow up to the "Jungle Witch". It is for now, being called "the Sea Witch".

It has the Jungle Witch in a classic "above and below" ocean shot,(I've never done one yet, and they are very popular here in Hawaii

• every artist seems to have done one, or many.) ...with shark and sea turtle 'aumakua (guardian spirits) swimming round, some
  tikis (of course), lots of fun colorful fish....and strange coral, plus a beautiful wave, and a beautiful Hawaiian sunset.
  With a perfect looking tropical island in the distance. This one came to me all in "one big flow" almost finished.
  A real treat! - and one of those things were the "Muse of Low-brow Art" grants me a favor and I just sit back and watch the pencil create the image.
  Magical!
  
  Brad's invisible pretend Low-Brow Art Muse sez:
  "What can I say? After all dat stuff where his art got ripped off,
  and all da' lawyers going back and forth and getting no where,
  threats and lost business 'n crap, 'den he caught da' X-mas flu.
  Well, I thought, what da' heck. I'd give da' kid a break. But, just
  this one time. And, only cause he worked extra hard on makin'
  da' last one specially good, & very Tiki/Low-Brow."