Post #753042 by Tiki Shark Art on Fri, Oct 23, 2015 6:23 PM

ALOHA TIKI TRIBE!

Hey, you remember when I woke up in the middle of the night and had to run to my studio cause I suddenly knew what was wrong with my "A Black Cat Crosses the Path of the Night Marchers" painting? (yeah, that's just a working title I will have something shorter by the time it's done… I hope). WELL sir, it happened again! This time it was over this Skate board. I painted one miss printed board, it came out great …

Well I had another one. I had an Idea how to repaint it, but as soon as I started, I knew it just wasn't going to work. I hung it back up on my studio wall, and there it dangled. Unfinished. Then, early just as the morning sun was a glimmer over the Volcanic Peak of the island, I was suddenly wide awake I knew what I needed to do to that second Skate board.
It's another miss-print & is too dark. So, I had painted out everything but the tiki, which itself will be repainted.

It's going to be about a very brightly glowing skull at the tiki's feet. That will give the tiki a eerie under-lighting (that kind of lighting I LOVE on a tiki). I sort of knew this was what I wanted instead of what I had started. It was going to be a re-do of the "Glowing Skull" image that was lost. Explain? OK.

I painted a canvas , long ago with a tiki that had a glowing skull at it's feet. It sold to an Art collector who lived way over on the other side of the island, The wet side, below Pahoa Town, in the jungle close to where the lava flows - this guy got the old joint cheap (!)

This painting was like the 5th Acrylic painting I had ever done. It was stolen out of his house, never to be seen again. It was an early piece and had never been professionally photographed so there are no giclee art prints of it. I wanted to recreate this cool idea. But I didn't know what to do with the rest of the board. It's a very tall narrow space, too small for the big sunset of the "Glowing Skull Mystic Tiki #5 painting. I need something…with texture… I scrawled out this:

Skulls! This is about a magical mystical glowing skull, perhaps the tiki is in a whole cave of skulls on an remote mysterious island some-wheres?

"That's da' Ticket!"
Made sense to my inner "Low-Brow Art Muse", who looks exactly like Ron Perlman.
"Hey, I keep telling' da' kid: Paint Skulls, Hot-Rods & Tikis, they always work. But does he listen? Huh!"

I even grabbed a brush and started slapping some paint… Painted out what I had started.

Stared roughing in the first skull.

A very good Aloha Friday Morning!