Post #732573 by danlovestikis on Thu, Dec 4, 2014 9:02 AM

hang10tiki now I know if you are naughty or nice.
I work on Bob diversity, thank you.

lunavideogames so many fun tiki excursions and so little time. I need to finish this swap painting and to work on the Wish List #5. I will plan to see you all during 2015.

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Sorry for posting in two places but I keep my whole art life on this thread.

My painting for the MadDogMike Hawaiian Shirt Swap had more colors than I realized.
So far I've used these tubes of paint and

mixed them with each other and white to get them right.

I still need to tweak the flower down a notch.

Next steps 12/4/14

I used a silver pen to outline the next part. Somehow I got the first palm tree higher than it should be so from now on I'm doing a very similar painting to the shirt and not a perfect painting.

Got a good start.

I left off here for the day.

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Whenever I have looked at Tiki Bob I would think about how little it would take to turn him "more tiki".

So I did that. I started with the area below his upper lip.

I added eyelids.

Using a wet brush I sealed them and smoothed them to Bob's face.

I started carving out and shaping the mouth.

With the features finished I outlined the face.

I used a vegetable peeler to carve in deep lines like a Witco Tiki.

Then a wire brush to add more fine lines.

All done and posing.

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Off to work, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2014-12-05 13:32 ]