Post #795956 by danlovestikis on Fri, Jun 28, 2019 8:40 PM

Hamo, noooooooooooo I need to work to keep a healthy brain. Actually we are just back from a quick trip to Oregon to see my sister and her family. I just caught up on posting photos at night when in the hotel. Oregon is beautiful. We toured the Harry and David factory and saw them making a packing up all their terrific food products. We like factory tours.

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Continuing on with the Black Velvet Steps. There's been a change. This will be my entry into the Tiki Oasis 2020 Art Show. It had been a friends wish but I'm so slow that things have changed. It worked out beautifully for both of us. I'll do another for him at a future date.

These steps occurred between 1/8/19 and 4/25/19.

Here are the tikis that I am attempting to copy. That's the hard part and none are spot on, just close.

I keep on taping the tiki photo of the one I'm working on very close to where I'm painting.

One color and layer

at a time as it builds up.

Flash photography makes the velvet look muddy. It's really stark black.

Finally it's time to start on the last tiki.

Layer after layer

as it lightens up.

Some areas require more layers and colors than others. I just

Keep checking all the tikis against the photo.

I may still need to do more but now is the time to move on to other parts.

Cheers, Wendy