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 Mon, Sep 29, 2014 2:12 PM Aloha Tiki Tribe! danlovestikis - yeah, crazy busy summer! Sorry for being so behind on my up dates. Don't even know where to start, so lets start with what I'm working on now…. It started with a conversation with my Hawaiian friend from Honolulu about some recent "Goose Bump" stories that have recently happened to him. This is Hawaii, and ghost stories and things like that happen here All the freakin' time. So With October coming up, this image became a hot item in my noodle. I do have some commissions I'm also working on, but the season really got me in the mood to work on this one. It's called "Hotel Honolulu Haunted Hoot N Nanny!" This is the work of an amazing Low Brow Artist named Shawn Dickenson. "WOW!" is what I said when I saw it. That image inspired this drawing named: "Hotel Honolulu Haunted Hoot-N-Nanny!" Then I needed to add a "Haunt"… A "ghost-tiki" was suggested by someone, and I thought that was a GREAT idea! This is the "Tiki-Haunt" in the hotel room. This is a small canvas I started almost as a test - or to get this painting out fast. But popular demand on FB made me switch to a larger canvas - so for a 11" X 14" I up graded to a 24" 30" I put the sketch on the larger canvas - note the old fashioned way I do it, just like your 6th grade teacher taught you: the grid system on the sketch and the canvas. Here's a larger version of the "Hotel Honolulu Haunted Hoot-N-Nanny!" Cat almost on… Stray Cat Strutting on the canvas. Jeepers Creepers! LOVE Shawn's work! So... That means I respect him too much to just rip him off. I contacted him and told him what I was doing, and how do I do it with-out ripping him off. I figure He'd have an idea, and I'd get to tell him how cool his art is. So…..found him on the web…on FB… I Told him I ws worried about just "ripping-off" Shawn Dickinson (while loving and being inspired by him). Talked to him about how much I loved his work, and asked him how I could paint my latest piece and not just rip him off. We chatted about my style vs his style. He said just do "it" in your style - which is also influenced by high Renaissance painting, and especially the kind coming from the north, where it was all about natural lighting coming in from windows. Dark rooms with bright windows… So follow those rules, as well as 1930's cartoon style and - do my strange / funny cat heads which after looking at our work we both noted were different than his cat heads.. Go ahead and just start painting it, and we both thought it'd turn out different seeing how our styles were so different…no idea what it would be like, but it was worth a try. Who knows hat this miss-mash is gonna come out like. He felt it'd be very different than his, and he was OK with me doing it. I felt good having his blessing to move forward. And I really liked talking to someone as talented as he is. Ha! Weird for sure! I at this point have no idea WHAT this painting is gonna' end up looking like, but have a strange feeling in my gut about it...and that usually means "ART" is gonna' happen…. cause I'm pushing my limits again. I'm scared. I'm scared it may be a total disaster - scared I got no idea where it's going - and scared is a good place to be while making "Art". Problem. "How will people know we are in Hawaii?" That is the major question one of my publishers on Maui always throws at me when We are making calendars and Art cards and souvenirs etc… Answer: Make sure you put the world famous view down "Waikiki Beach" to that unforgettable view of "Diamond Head". (the extinct volcano. ) and put in the classic WAVE. Here's the re-sketch of the hotel room with a nice view of Diamond-Head out the window. OK, putting The Stray Cat Strutting to the Haunted Ukulele jam in the haunted hotel room in Honolulu… Here we are now… MUCH more to come. I Just found out my Art Agent's Time-line to get commissions done and keep up with a time-line that will allow me to do my best work for my 2016 summer show at La Luz De Jesus Gallery. So gotta' get some canvas time in, and get this next show where I want it to be. "Bigger and Better" than the last - that's the motto, as always. Each canvas has to be better, have to learn something more, get a little bit better. Big Aloha, sorry for the long summer. Glad to be back in the Art studio making da' Tiki Art! More laters! [ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2014-09-29 14:47 ]

Aloha Tiki Tribe!
danlovestikis - yeah, crazy busy summer! Sorry for being so behind on my up dates. Don't even know where to start, so lets start with what I'm working on now….
It started with a conversation with my Hawaiian friend from Honolulu about some recent "Goose Bump" stories that have recently happened to him. This is Hawaii, and ghost stories and things like that happen here All the freakin' time. So With October coming up, this image became a hot item in my noodle.
I do have some commissions I'm also working on, but the season really got me in the mood to work on this one.
It's called "Hotel Honolulu Haunted Hoot N Nanny!"

This is the work of an amazing Low Brow Artist named Shawn Dickenson. "WOW!" is what I said when I saw it.

That image inspired this drawing named: "Hotel Honolulu Haunted Hoot-N-Nanny!"

Then I needed to add a "Haunt"… A "ghost-tiki" was suggested by someone, and I thought that was a GREAT idea!

This is the "Tiki-Haunt" in the hotel room.

This is a small canvas I started almost as a test - or to get this painting out fast. But popular demand on FB made me switch to a larger canvas - so for a 11" X 14" I up graded to a 24" 30"

I put the sketch on the larger canvas - note the old fashioned way I do it, just like your 6th grade teacher taught you: the grid system on the sketch and the canvas.

Here's a larger version of the "Hotel Honolulu Haunted Hoot-N-Nanny!"

Cat almost on…

Stray Cat Strutting on the canvas.

Jeepers Creepers! LOVE Shawn's work!
So... That means I respect him too much to just rip him off.
I contacted him and told him what I was doing, and how do I do it with-out ripping him off. I figure He'd have an idea, and I'd get to tell him how cool his art is. So…..found him on the web…on FB…
I Told him I ws worried about just "ripping-off" Shawn Dickinson (while loving and being inspired by him).
Talked to him about how much I loved his work, and asked him how I could paint my latest piece and not just rip him off. We chatted about my style vs his style. He said just do "it" in your style - which is also influenced by high Renaissance painting, and especially the kind coming from the north, where it was all about natural lighting coming in from windows. Dark rooms with bright windows… So follow those rules, as well as 1930's cartoon style and - do my strange / funny cat heads which after looking at our work we both noted were different than his cat heads.. Go ahead and just start painting it, and we both thought it'd turn out different seeing how our styles were so different…no idea what it would be like, but it was worth a try. Who knows hat this miss-mash is gonna come out like. He felt it'd be very different than his, and he was OK with me doing it. I felt good having his blessing to move forward. And I really liked talking to someone as talented as he is.

Ha! Weird for sure! I at this point have no idea WHAT this painting is gonna' end up looking like, but have a strange feeling in my gut about it...and that usually means "ART" is gonna' happen…. cause I'm pushing my limits again.
I'm scared.
I'm scared it may be a total disaster - scared I got no idea where it's going - and scared is a good place to be while making "Art".
Problem.
"How will people know we are in Hawaii?"
That is the major question one of my publishers on Maui always throws at me when We are making calendars and Art cards and souvenirs etc…

Answer: Make sure you put the world famous view down "Waikiki Beach" to that unforgettable view of "Diamond Head". (the extinct volcano. ) and put in the classic WAVE.

Here's the re-sketch of the hotel room with a nice view of Diamond-Head out the window.

OK, putting The Stray Cat Strutting to the Haunted Ukulele jam in the haunted hotel room in Honolulu…

Here we are now… MUCH more to come.
I Just found out my Art Agent's Time-line to get commissions done and keep up with a time-line that will allow me to do my best work for my 2016 summer show at La Luz De Jesus Gallery.
So gotta' get some canvas time in, and get this next show where I want it to be.
"Bigger and Better" than the last - that's the motto, as always.
Each canvas has to be better, have to learn something more, get a little bit better.
Big Aloha, sorry for the long summer.
Glad to be back in the Art studio making da' Tiki Art!

More laters!

[ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2014-09-29 14:47 ]

Post #728639 by Tiki Shark Art on Mon, Sep 29, 2014 2:12 PM