TSA
Joined: Aug 31, 2006
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TSA
Aloha Tiki Tribe!
A cool business called Custom Grafix in Australia asked to use two of my paintings to decorate their show room for their customized cars.
They wanted to blow them up to enormous size. I thought it sounded like a really dramatic visual and if they could spend the cash to get it done right… sure!
Here's how it came out, what do you think? Their customers have had great response to the new showroom.
It gets printed on to Giant sheets…quite amazing what they can do now a days!
Nice!
A low-Brow Boat!
Beautiful!
Wow…not what it is about my work that makes it look nice when blown up so large.
It's the same thing about me always worried that I did or did not have a "Style".
After about 50 paintings I can say I guess I do have a "style"
I didn't pick it… it simply developed as how I paint.
At first I just tried to paint like the artist's I liked.
Patrick Wooddroffe - (who did the cover of the first "Judas Priest" Album and got me wanting to be a professional artist.)
Robert Williams - Blew my mind with his Zap Comics, and his Zombie Mystery Paintings, and his "Super Cartoons" these changed my life.
Changed me from commercial artist to Gallery Artist. the seed was planted.
Robert Williams coined the name "Low-Brow Art" and once I saw his painting "Patrick Has a Glue Dream" I knew I had to be a "Low-Brow Artist"! I was still working in Hollywood, and it took another 10 to 20 years to
get out of the $ hand cuffs - I finally had to go cold turkey by moving to the big Island of Hawaii so I couldn't do any art but Gallery Art ...for tourists.
But I also knew I wanted to "talk" more about Tiki-Culture like THOR, Big Toe. Ken Ruzic. So- That was where I went - after my heart. "Do what you Love. Love What you do."
Mark Ryden. - his Low-Brow is so good that museums are now buying it. He was scary at first, because his subject matter was nearly kiddie porn, but it was Art - it broke down walls.
Then I discovered Todd Schorr. He's amazing. Todd's Low-Brow Art was almost exactly what I wished I could paint like. So, I must admit to drooling the most over his Art.
I secretly wanted to be Todd Schorr - but on permanent vacation in Hawaii (and thus painting tikis!).
Of course, all my childhood I loved artists who did comic book art, pulp paper back covers, Horror magazine covers.
Most of my comic book collection was for the artist heroes who drew them.
Mike Mignola's HELLBOY. Berni Wrightson's SWAMPTHING. Stan Lee. Frank Frazetta. Rick Rietveld. Damian Fulton. Shawn Dickinson.
SHAG. Ragnar. Tim Hildebrandt. Basil Gogos. James Bama. Burne Hogarth.Stephen Hickman.
And my personal friends who are artist, Christopher Michals, Ken Ruzic, Tom Laura, Erioc October,
Almost every artist who's shown at "La Luz De Jesus Gallery" in LA,
...and/or who's been shown in Art magazines like "Hi Fructose".
I love art books, and books "The Art of" such and such movie or animated Show, like The HELL BOY movies & Pacific Rim are amazing "The Art of" books.
And
When I failed to paint just like any of my heroes - what every way I was left painting in became my "Style".
I'm lucky it's a Style people like, and that seems "buyable"
...and it blows up nicely to make big cool walls! (who would have thought of that? Not me!)
Oh, wow! Look at that! Now we're talking! Swanky!
That made the whole project worth it right there!
ALOHA!
[ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2015-02-27 03:34 ]
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