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 Tue, Jun 9, 2015 8:19 PM Aloha Tiki Tribe, Here's the fix I did on the Tree - gave it a bit more curve. Roughed in the next Night Marcher - I have a better sense of the light sources now. A closer look. This painting was originally titled "A Black Cat Crosses the Path of the Night Marchers". Fellow Low-brow Hawaii based artist Dennis Mathewson and I were talking, he said to be careful with Hawaiian Legends, as the local folks don't take to people taking their heritage as a joke. I said I had yet to find any local real "Hawaiian" person tell me anything negative about my art. They all seem quite pleased with it. Plus, I always run my ideas past my Hawaiian Artist friend "Sam" before I paint just in case. However, the longer I am here the more I am being influenced by the local history and legends. It's one of the reasons I moved here - I felt there was something here that I needed to paint about. That's sort of what artist do, right? Absorb everything around them in and filter it through their own "artistic vision" and, I hope, create something new. I always try to approach my subject matter with a strong accent to only paint about modern pop culture, not historical Hawaiian Culture. This image came to me after Thanksgiving Dinner at a friend's house and a long talk afterwards about the Night Marchers - I then went home and had a night mare about them: so it was in fact a new, (modern) personal experience. Dennis suggested taking the words "Night Marchers" out of the title. Since it's already an extremely long title, I thought shortening the title to "Nightmare #1" might make it a lot easier on the gallery staff, my printer, art patrons, and everyone else. Then I could use the long title as a sub-title. Any thoughts?

Aloha Tiki Tribe,

Here's the fix I did on the Tree - gave it a bit more curve.

Roughed in the next Night Marcher - I have a better sense of the light sources now.

A closer look.

This painting was originally titled "A Black Cat Crosses the Path of the Night Marchers". Fellow Low-brow Hawaii based artist Dennis Mathewson and I were talking, he said to be careful with Hawaiian Legends, as the local folks don't take to people taking their heritage as a joke. I said I had yet to find any local real "Hawaiian" person tell me anything negative about my art. They all seem quite pleased with it. Plus, I always run my ideas past my Hawaiian Artist friend "Sam" before I paint just in case.

However, the longer I am here the more I am being influenced by the local history and legends. It's one of the reasons I moved here - I felt there was something here that I needed to paint about. That's sort of what artist do, right? Absorb everything around them in and filter it through their own "artistic vision" and, I hope, create something new. I always try to approach my subject matter with a strong accent to only paint about modern pop culture, not historical Hawaiian Culture. This image came to me after Thanksgiving Dinner at a friend's house and a long talk afterwards about the Night Marchers - I then went home and had a night mare about them: so it was in fact a new, (modern) personal experience. Dennis suggested taking the words "Night Marchers" out of the title. Since it's already an extremely long title, I thought shortening the title to "Nightmare #1" might make it a lot easier on the gallery staff, my printer, art patrons, and everyone else. Then I could use the long title as a sub-title. Any thoughts?

Post #744550 by Tiki Shark Art on Tue, Jun 9, 2015 8:19 PM