Post #747398 by Tiki Shark Art on Sun, Jul 19, 2015 1:00 PM

Aloha Tiki Tribe!
I'm re-painting a printed TIKI-SHARK Skate Deck. It was a bit too dark, so I'm brightening it up, and adding in a character - to stand in front of the Looming Tiki, give it some scale and some depth.
(Yes that is my X-tremely messy Art Studio - forgive the hurricane that just went through it)

It took a few tries to figure out how to set up a Skate Deck to paint on it.

At first I lay it down, but that hurt my bad back and I soon figured I had to hang it up and paint on it like a canvas.

So the first few slaps of paint went on just to cover the finish, which I took a fine grain sand paper to, to rough it up, give it a tooth that the acrylic could stick to. It was still tricky, and took several layers to properly cover the slick printed graphic.

It also took several hours to "get into the groove" on this project.
Now... it's finally starting to look like something … More laters!

Big Mahalo for watching the paint dry!