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 Wed, Oct 7, 2015 1:10 AM Aloha Tiki Tribe! Well, as requested I am posting more step by step process shots. I am working on a huge epic piece - huge in scope, and idea, the canvas isn't THAT big. 30" by 40". (I usually work 24" x 30"). This painting came to me in a dream. I was over a friend's house for dinner. She told me her house was built on the path of the "Night Marchers". The Night Marchers are a local Legend about a ghostly procession of ancient Hawaiian Spirits that march across the islands at night. Much like the Wild Hunt in England and Ireland, you do not want to be caught in their path. It's considered Very Bad Luck. So, my friend told me she had to take certain precautions to protect her from invading spirits. The main part of this was a huge and striking portrait of the Volcano Goddess PELE in her entry way. I asked about the painting, and that's what brought up the whole topic. Anyways, later I go home with this thought bouncing around my head and I have a dream about it. I don't recall the whole dream, just pieces. Being in her house. Knowing, and hearing the Night Marchers coming. THEN… in some weird Low-Brow twist the thought pops up "What happens if another form of Bad Luck intersects with the Night Marcher's path? Like… a Black Cat Crossing your path, or in this case What would happen if "A Black Cat Crossed the Path of the Night Marchers"? I wake up, ...and think, wow, that's one weird, Low-Brow idea! Long ago, another friend who is a writer told me he keeps a pad next to his bed as most of his best and strangest story ideas come to him in dreams, and he immediately writes them down before they disappear the way dreams do. I grab my sketch book and scrawl down as much as I can recall. I started painting this a while ago, but have had a lot of commercial work stop it's progress. However now is the time to focus and finish it. The Night Marchers "path" is based on M.C. Esher's "Ascending and Descending" lithograph of the un-ending stairway. I am seeking to make this structure look like it was built out of Lava rock by the Menehunes. I got stuck for a while on just what the Night Marchers would look like. I choose a "Tiki-fied" skeleton. But I think each Marcher will look slightly different. They carry glowing "Torch flowers" which grow in abundance here on the Big Island. Now I'm working on placement of each Marcher on the stairs. This one will be starting up the stars closest to the viewer. Looking down at the Black Cat crossing his path. I'm starting them all as sketches of just Skeletons, and bringing in the "Tiki" as I go. More Laters!

Aloha Tiki Tribe!
Well, as requested I am posting more step by step process shots.
I am working on a huge epic piece - huge in scope, and idea, the canvas isn't THAT big. 30" by 40". (I usually work 24" x 30").
This painting came to me in a dream. I was over a friend's house for dinner. She told me her house was built on the path of the "Night Marchers".
The Night Marchers are a local Legend about a ghostly procession of ancient Hawaiian Spirits that march across the islands at night.
Much like the Wild Hunt in England and Ireland, you do not want to be caught in their path. It's considered Very Bad Luck. So, my friend told me she had to take
certain precautions to protect her from invading spirits.
The main part of this was a huge and striking portrait of the Volcano Goddess PELE in her entry way.
I asked about the painting, and that's what brought up the whole topic. Anyways, later I go home with this thought bouncing around my head and I have a dream about it.
I don't recall the whole dream, just pieces. Being in her house. Knowing, and hearing the Night Marchers coming.
THEN… in some weird Low-Brow twist the thought pops up "What happens if another form of Bad Luck intersects with the Night Marcher's path?
Like… a Black Cat Crossing your path, or in this case What would happen if "A Black Cat Crossed the Path of the Night Marchers"?
I wake up,
...and think, wow, that's one weird, Low-Brow idea!
Long ago, another friend who is a writer told me he keeps a pad next to his bed as most of his best and strangest story ideas come to him in dreams,
and he immediately writes them down before they disappear the way dreams do.
I grab my sketch book and scrawl down as much as I can recall.

I started painting this a while ago, but have had a lot of commercial work stop it's progress. However now is the time to focus and finish it.
The Night Marchers "path" is based on M.C. Esher's "Ascending and Descending" lithograph of the un-ending stairway.
I am seeking to make this structure look like it was built out of Lava rock by the Menehunes.
I got stuck for a while on just what the Night Marchers would look like. I choose a "Tiki-fied" skeleton.

But I think each Marcher will look slightly different. They carry glowing "Torch flowers" which grow in abundance here on the Big Island.

Now I'm working on placement of each Marcher on the stairs.

This one will be starting up the stars closest to the viewer. Looking down at the Black Cat crossing his path.
I'm starting them all as sketches of just Skeletons, and bringing in the "Tiki" as I go.

More Laters!

Post #752142 by Tiki Shark Art on Wed, Oct 7, 2015 1:10 AM