Post #750950 by RVICTOR on Wed, Sep 16, 2015 7:16 AM

Aloha,
Decided to pop in, share some news and randomly post this weeks work...well, part of it anyway...

This weekend I delivered the mugs to the "A Very Taki Tiki Bar" in Edmonds...I sure hope the owner likes them. Put more time and effort into them than they are selling them for but it felt great to have my work at a Tiki Bar. Kind of like completing a box on the Tiki Bucket List....

Based on the order from Taki Tiki, one of the good folks at Ooga Mooga contacted me to make templates for my mugs...so now you can do a search on Ooga Mooga and select RVTiki in the "designer" column. Cool.

Overall, it was a pretty good weekend and it felt, in a way, like the hobby is taking a step in the direction of being what I eventually want it to be later on. My plan in the next month or two is try selling a few mugs...either by people contacting me or selling on ebay. I will probably post on TC Marketplace as well. What I have available will be limited (as I have no plans on leaving my job for art) and sporadic...hell, not even that good imho. Not going to try competing with anyone...just happy to have some sort of a presence.

As of this moment, the only event I am planning on being at this or next year is Tiki Kon...too many family things going on...but I may it may be my rookie year vending. We will see if I can get it together by then. I have lots of ideas...pendants, mugs, masks, etc. I have no illusions of grandeur or anything, just would like to have fun with it and get my art out there...

anyways, sorry bout the rambling...this is what I worked on this week.

More mugs...

A hook (for hanging tiki lights at my brother's new house) and a mask (one of about 3 that I am working on). Went to the SAM "unmasked" exhibit, and save for a few artists, was extremely disappointed in the exhibit. Thought I would try to do it myself...we will see how that works out.

Monkey pendants - kind of like my tribute to Tiki Tony

Well, Mahalo for looking...