TSA
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ALOHA Tiki Tribe!
Original Pencil Study for SALE.
“The Mummy’s Mai-Tai” Original Pencil Study.
Please use this link to purchase "The Mummy's Mai Tai Original Sketch":
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Dimensions:
Pencil / graphite & white acrylic paint on heavy rag paper. Framed.
Art area -11 1/4” x 8”
Frame - 16” x 13”
Description:
Torn from the artist’s sketch book: an original pencil on paper study for the painting “The Mummy’s Mai-Tai”. Following the first four classic monsters: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Werewolf, and The Creature, here is the design of monster number five (5) for the on going series “Monsters on Vacation”.
Brad “Tiki-Shark” Parker places the low-brow spot-light of his character driven painting on the mummified Egyptian high priest Im-Ho-Tep as portrayed by Boris Karloff in 1933. The Mummy reflects the Universal horror films that so heavily influenced his childhood, and continue to be part of Parker’s art.
As a small boy, Brad watched the black & white creature-features every week-end in gleeful terror.
“I remember Karloff was buried alive for 3700 years, til the tomb was opened, the seal broken, and the mummy came to life to fulfill it’s dreadful mission.” Brad says.
“I also remember the Midway at the Nebraska State Fair an’ trying to win these silly-looking inflatable monsters. I had them all in one form or another. As a kid, my room looked like a miniature Madame Tussauds wax museum chamber of horrors. With these paintings I suppose I’m still perfecting my own ultimate collection of monsters.”
Mahalo ~
Brad "Tiki-Shark" Parker
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