Post #718844 by Tiki Shark Art on Sat, May 31, 2014 5:55 PM

aloha tiki tribe!
Heres the Sea Witch…
Strange to see how my style is changing , A art patron who has collected my work from the very start right up to my most recent said he has cocktail parties and they stroll around his house looking at his collection, and have really deep conversations on the evolution of my "painting style or techniques"… That kinda freaked me out. I'm not even aware that this was happening. It's just what happens when I put brush to canvas. I'm actually trying to maintain a similar style, but that seems impossible to do. Every thing changes, I guess. A lot of what is in my art is from, I think, reflected by what's going on in my life. I've have now noticed my last few paintings have been really really really busy with so many things going on in them… a lot like my life. Back when I was focused on taking care of a sick family relation who had Alzheimer's, care giving for him right up to his passing. It was what I did 24/7 bedsides painting. I noticed, at that time, I could not stop painting sunsets. Single figures on a sea-shore standing at sunset.

Change from day to night, land to sea….life to after life.

Now, all theses things are going on in my life, so many things seem to be happening in my paintings too. I guess artist's are conduits for what's around them. Angel, (My Hawaiian Yoda) said I was called home to the island to paint what I had to paint about. He's got some really deep metaphysical, geographical, and kinda' cosmic/god & goddess sexual and very Polynesian mystical ideas about all that. Cool stuff to hear from someone who's ancestors lived here. More on all that later… like who some of the legendary figures in Hawaii were and maybe represented. Very different stuff than what they tell tourists. Like some sources even tell that the Tahitian Kahuna (High Priest) Pa'ao - the guy who told King Kamehameha the Great ( before he became Great King of the Prophecy) to dedicate himself to the bloodiest aspect of the War god Ku: "Kuka'ilimoku" is described as having light colored skin and hair!? What the…? Is it possible this rather sinister puppet-master- like figure was of European blood? E-Gads! The plot thickens…as, it seems, is always what happens with all the history here …it's all such rich, dramatic, stuff. Much food for future paintings!

Anyways... here's the latest…

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Full on. Things… lots of things going on.

[ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2014-05-31 18:09 ]