Post #777181 by danlovestikis on Sat, Jun 24, 2017 8:10 PM

hang10tiki you know how much I love this because I'm a ham. Thank you. I wrote Bullet a note so that he could go look.

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I am posting tonight rather than tomorrow morning. We have company coming.

In addition to ceramics the Wish List #7 has requests for 3 black velvet paintings like the one I did for the Tiki Oasis 16 art show. I also want to so one for this years art show as well. So I did the first one during this past week. It is for Psycho Tiki D.

I set up all the bright hot lights to shine on the velvet so I can see what I'm doing.

I got out all the colors of paint that I would need. I needed even more than these by the time I finished.

Each day that I painted I set up a plastic lid with all the colors.

I cut out a stencil to make the first lines easier. I used a ruler. This is a mirror image of the set up for last year. I need to change them enough that you can tell its an original painting.

Then I did the outline and then I removed the cardboard.

So these are the tikis.

After that I work on all the flowers. With velvet you paint from the front to the back, just the opposite of an oil painting.

I did a bunch of random flowers.

Then I tie them together with leaves.

When I did the bird I was able to pull a pin through the paint to make the thin line of the beak.

I started to work on the bamboo.

Here's a close up of the plants. Photos of black velvet don't look very good.

At the end of each day my paint looks like this.

Now it's tiki time.

I painted outlines to help myself.

Then I worked on detail.

I took some dark blue paint and added water so that it would be transparent when I used it.

I went around each tiki so that they looked more 3-D.

Dan said you need more bamboo so it was back to work.

These are the best two photos I took. This one with a flash and

this one without.

So much fun to be had and so little time. I try to stick to 8 hours a day but I forgot and did 12. But I'll take some time off tomorrow.

Cheers, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2017-06-24 20:12 ]