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12/21/2006
Another awesome piece man :) |
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Tiki Shark Art
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12/22/2006
Swamp Fire, Isle Conch, Hewey, thanks so much! Aloha from the Big Island! |
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Tiki Shark Art
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12/26/2006
Hey TC hope everyone had a great holiday! So, this afternoon, we said a fond "aloha" to our X-mas guests, as they left the Big Island, and I could deflate the air mattress and get my art studio back into being a .. art studio. |
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little lost tiki
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12/26/2006
OCTOPUS? |
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12/27/2006
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hewey
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12/27/2006
Im getting excited already! :) |
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frostiki
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12/27/2006
I'm scared of snakes, even if it is a sea snake. Other than that I'm looking forward to seeing the progress. I only wish I had the time to create as much as you. |
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hodadhank
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12/27/2006
Sea snake venom is more toxic than the venom of land snakes...In fact Yellow Bellied Sea Snakes have the most toxic venom of any snake. There is no known antivenom for their bite. They are close relatives to the cobra and are totally adapted to marine life: they have modified lungs to help them maintain buoyancy and to remain underwater for a long time. Boo! Image Missing: http://www.susanscott.net/images/07-15_yellow-bellied%20sea%20snake%20by%20Hal%20Cogger.jpg |
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hodadhank
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12/27/2006
Brad I love the fish lei! What kind of fish are they? Will you incorporate shadows so the fish look raised above the surface of the submerged tiki? |
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GROG
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12/27/2006
Nice info about sea snakes, but it's an eel guarding the treasure. So, tell us a bit about eels. |
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Bora Boris
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12/27/2006
• There are Freshwater and Saltwater Eels. • A young eel is called an elver. • A traditional East London food is jellied eels. • A giant moray eel ate Louis Gosset Jr. in the 1977 film The Deep Image Missing: https://tikicentral.com/resize.php/uploads/3101/4592f046.jpg?w=1280&h=1280&fit=max&sharp=5&s=24cb3b5ac410b8ec6d58d247fa418fc3 |
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Sneakytiki
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12/27/2006
Cool piece TSA, there's alot of interesting characters populating this composition. Although painting smaller can be faster, I personally find it more challenging with painting detailed shapes and what not. I'm sure it's no problem for you. This composition has alot less neg. space than your last couple o' paintings which also makes for some cool variation within the series and also harkens back to your first painting in the series. Speaking of variety, are you going to do some horizontal/landscape formats in this series? Keep up the good work! ST |
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12/28/2006
Hodadhank, OMG! I'm never setting foot in the friggin ocean again! It's full of frickin snakes! Bora Boris, Thanks for the info, I think I feel somewhat enlightened. Nice Grog vs the eel! Frostiki, I'm still working out the light sources, but I hope I stick the shadows where they should be... if not tell me before it's too late. |
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12/28/2006
YEah, I think I got a horizontal composition in mind, thanks for asking Sneakitiki! Tiki Shark [ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2006-12-28 02:45 ] |
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12/28/2006
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hewey
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12/28/2006
:) |
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12/28/2006
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frostiki
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12/28/2006
TS the colorized proof looks great so far. you may want to add a little orange to the highlights of the sunken ship, very subtle to play on the luminence of the eel. BTW very happy to learn that it was an eel and not a sea snake. Can't wait to see more. As soon as we get our Digital camera to be able to take more that one pic with out going through the batteries we'll post some more of Mrs, Frostiki's paintings and our prints. Keep up the good work. Hodadhank, thank you for making me fear snkaes even more. I thought I freaked out after seein Jaws as a kid, but this tops that. Bora Boris, very informative. You both must be as bored at work as I am. |
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IsleConch
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12/30/2006
..great work, a pleasure to see...can't wait to watch the progress. |
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12/30/2006
Hey TC, I had some Tiki Shark beach towel work to get caught up on so was busy. But I got a few hours of painting in... |
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finkdaddy
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12/30/2006
Aloha Tiki Shark Art! Don't know if I've ever posted on here before, but I wanted to tell you that I'm a big fan of this thread and I think your work is amazing! I absolutely love the progress pics, and it's wonderful to see a piece come together in the end. Keep it up! |
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thegreenman
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12/30/2006
I have one question: Where the hell is the gallery on your website so I can at least buy some prints or something? I like totes and mats and all but where is the wall-candy? oops that's two questions. :wink: [ Edited by: thegreenman 2006-12-30 06:27 ] |
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teaKEY
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12/30/2006
I like the treasure guarded by a snake. When I was a boy, this is the picture that I could look at all day and dream about finding hidden treasure like that. I see in the last painting that you changed the way the blue looks in the nose and face but you still kept it blue. Great move. |
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GROG
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12/30/2006
Hopefully whoever comissioned this one will back out from buying it like your last painting, and GROG can buy it. Bastard! |
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12/30/2006
greenman - Thank you so much. I'm honored. |
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TikiLaLe
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12/31/2006
Guess 'shit' doesn't move to fast on the big island !!!! |
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Stiki Tiki
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12/31/2006
Hey Tiki Shark, been drooling over your work for some time now myself, awesome! I'm waiting for the card decks to come out, anytime soon I hope? my poker game will never be the same! |
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hewey
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01/01/2007
Coming along very nicely man. The "under" painting thing is new to me. Gave me an idea - what about a vintage looking print done in sepia tones? And there's one cool lighting element I am yet to see in your paintings - lightning! One of my favourite threads :) |
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01/01/2007
I'm with Hewey on that one! if you look at old thrift store paintings with the faded prints on wood all yellowy from coats and coats of lacquer! Your graphic precision shows before the colors are put in! Beautiful! And the ripples on the surface are coming along! remember that the light is all straight and smooth roaming from the sun to the earth,BUT when it hit's water, it's like a liquid mirror/reflector/lens... water has been described as a liquid crystal before-YUP! Have fun! Glad I'm not painting that! It would drive me mad in a frenzy to accurately depict it! Good job man! Happy New Year! |
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Paipo
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01/01/2007
Seeing you're on a moai kick you should do a version of the pics I posted earlier - I would love to see how one of you artist types could interpret that! Back on topic, this one is going to have a quite a different feel to the others I think TSA...I'm really interested to see how the underpainting is going to affect the outcome. |
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01/02/2007
tikilale - yeah things move at the speed of lava here, or at least I do. |
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hewey
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01/02/2007
The surface in the second pic is tops |
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foamy
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01/02/2007
TSA, your skill and talent disgust me. Keep up the great work. (from Hawaii, no less, arrgh!) [ Edited by: foamy 2007-01-02 07:04 ] |
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frostiki
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01/02/2007
The underpainting is great, I like the way the surface light is coming through. I just have to keepsaying, it's an eel not a snake. Eel not snake. |
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Sam Gambino
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01/03/2007
Hey Tiki Shark - very cool piece. I love the use of a hammerhead too. Those things are outright bad and kitschy.... Image Missing: http://www.samgambino.com/w%20assets/link%20logo.gif |
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01/03/2007
Thanks Hewey, the surface was daunting, but sokay now. |
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frostiki
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01/03/2007
I can live with a sneel, they are only mildly creepy. The details in your close ups are great, very smooth transitions. Nice and subtle colors. Thanks for posting, you help keep me motivated. |
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hewey
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01/04/2007
I love the feeling of depth in your art :) |
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little lost tiki
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01/04/2007
Moving along great Brad! that hammerhead close-up is pretty nifty! rock on! |
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hala_kahiki
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01/04/2007
your work is so amazing!! the detail is just gorgeous! |
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01/04/2007
Thanks everyone. Oh hey, if you go to http://www.coconutwired.com, I'm the current featured artist on Chongolio's podcast. He let me pick the band and the song to get played while my art is being shown on that tiny itty bitty i-pod window. I sent many e-mails to my favorite surf band, and secured my favorite track off "The Ghastly One's" latest CD. I listen to coconut wired alot while I paint, and it was totally cool to be a part of it. Thanks Chongolio, and thanks Norman!! |
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hala_kahiki
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01/04/2007
nice! The Ghastly Ones are so awesome! |
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01/06/2007
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hodadhank
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01/06/2007
Looking wonderful TSA! Don't bother changing the lighting from above on the shipwreck. The light waves you are thinking of are more common in shallow water anyway. A suggested solution or your mermaid... Image Missing: http://www.tonyhowell.co.uk/angelwidcombeiiii.jpg |
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GROG
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01/06/2007
This one is definitely going have to go to GROG. Whoever commissioned it will have to wait for next one. |
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01/07/2007
WOW! Thanks hodadhank! That helped ALOT! As my old illustration teacher used to say, "you're only as good as your ref scrap." |
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jpmartdog
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01/07/2007
Hey Tiki Shark, Not that my painting should grace this thread - for that I am sorry. [ Edited by: jpmartdog 2007-01-07 08:06 ] |
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teaKEY
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01/07/2007
TS Your showing us a underwater painting and your big chance to show us one and you don't. Where is the "Tiki" Shark in this painting?? Just kidding but you do have a tiki and a shark like the one you posted a couple back. I see the process shots and I still don't know how you do it. I see the underpainting and different objects but you showed you tiki looking great in the second to last photo and the looking totally different color wise in the next. The only thing that I can imagine is that you are putting major time in between rounds. The eel, bam! polished and knowing you probably a couple more extras to it. Like watching Bob Ross move his brush across the canvas and things appear, but that stuff is only suggestive and looks good from afar. Yours looks to fly with color and detail with ease. Tikishark, do you hang out with Thor? |
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