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Wed, Oct 29, 2014 1:02 AM
Aloha Tiki Tribe! |
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Wed, Oct 29, 2014 10:28 PM
Light that makes shadows is at times so confusing. I've had to re-work paintings too. I'm glad you saw the light at the end of the tunnel! Fun boards. I see them at Mahalo Tiki's shop. Your art sure makes them special. Congratulations, Wendy [ Edited by: danlovestikis 2014-10-29 22:29 ] |
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Thu, Oct 30, 2014 1:01 AM
Thanks Wendy! Aloha Tiki-Tribe! I was very happy when I saw them too! Ya never know how things will come out till they do…. these came out better than I was thinking. Here's something cool to watch if ya' got some time, and like cartoons. I had this on video tape back in collage. Was fun watching it again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7iLMsJOAxg Gotta get up early and going snorkeling with some friends - so can't stay up too late painting….but it's a DEAD-Line so Gotta get back to it! |
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Fri, Oct 31, 2014 4:49 PM
Happy Aloha-Friday Tiki-Tribe! [ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2014-10-31 17:00 ] |
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Fri, Oct 31, 2014 4:57 PM
HAPPY HALLOWEEN TIKI TRIBE! Happy Haunting! |
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Mon, Nov 3, 2014 12:50 AM
Aloha Tiki Tribe! |
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Tue, Nov 4, 2014 11:32 PM
That's one huge "Forbidden Island" print. And I really like these cool varieties of gecko's we have here on the Island. Here's a pic of my recent visitor. |
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Thu, Nov 6, 2014 4:10 PM
Aloha Tiki-Tribe! Cute! I love it when they get tame and hop around in your hands! Heres the next step… And a drawing of ALOHA |
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Thu, Nov 6, 2014 4:13 PM
Lookin good shark man.,.. |
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Thu, Nov 6, 2014 4:45 PM
Thanks so much for taking pics of the evolution of HHH Brad, very informative and it looks FANTASTIC! |
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Thu, Nov 13, 2014 7:41 PM
Aloha Tiki Tribe! My pleasure cy. Yeah - I know. Guess who grot a Go pro! more later! ALOHA |
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Fri, Nov 14, 2014 3:18 PM
Aloha Tiki Tribe… More laters! |
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Fri, Nov 14, 2014 8:06 PM
Aloha Tiki Tribe!
More Laters! |
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Sun, Nov 16, 2014 5:06 AM
Aloha! I'm working on the Mug and Skull… gotta get 'em perfect! an all-nighter….. Laters! |
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Sun, Nov 16, 2014 11:41 AM
Good morning Tiki Tribe, |
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Sun, Nov 16, 2014 1:57 PM
http://www.ovguide.com/tv/hawaiian_eye.htm An episode of "Hawaiian Eye" with a VERY young Jack Nicolson as "Tony"…check it out! [ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2014-11-16 13:59 ] |
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Mon, Nov 17, 2014 11:09 PM
Aloha Tiki Tribe! |
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Tue, Nov 18, 2014 12:24 AM
What Rewards you are reaping from your art and hard work! |
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Tue, Nov 18, 2014 12:52 PM
LLT - It took me a while to digger out. I read the entire instruction book, and still didn't get ti. Then I went on you tube and watched a few tutorials, and that helped a lot. It's easy once you learn the secret way it works. What the cryptic symbols on it's tiny screen mean. It's actually fun to play with - with that sacked fish eye lens. You never know what you got till you down load the thing. A feature it has that will be a lot of fun for you and me, once we learn it, will be the Time Lapse feature. We can set it up and let it take time lapse photos of us painting, then I think the small movies are easy to up load to you tube or suck, and we could link to them from TC, and the tiki tribe could watch us paint… once we figure out how our Go Pros work! Like these: Later on Tiki Tribe! [ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2014-11-18 13:49 ] |
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Tue, Nov 18, 2014 8:04 PM
Aloha Tiki Tribe! |
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Wed, Nov 19, 2014 6:56 PM
Aloha Tiki Tribe! |
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Wed, Nov 19, 2014 8:44 PM
hang10tiki just did this for me after I carved a mug for him. Looking at your painting I would like to put it here for you because you painting is so fine! |
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Thu, Nov 20, 2014 4:24 PM
My pleasure cy. At first glance, I thought you put a tiny photo of your four Monsters in the current painting. The ceiling lines of your room match with the painting's. |
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Thu, Nov 20, 2014 4:43 PM
My pleasure cy. At first glance, I thought you put a tiny photo of your four Monsters in the current painting. The ceiling lines of your room match with the painting's. |
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Sat, Nov 29, 2014 3:06 AM
Thanks danlovestikis & Teakey! I came back from a business trip to da mainland… and saw what was bugging me about |
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Sat, Nov 29, 2014 11:56 AM
Aloha Tiki Tribe [ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2014-11-29 11:57 ] |
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Sat, Nov 29, 2014 6:06 PM
Dig this snip of painting "Scardy Cat"… |
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Sun, Nov 30, 2014 10:22 PM
aloha tiki tribe! I can't tell you how easy I thought this was gonna be… it seemed like a great idea. However I felt troubled through the whole thing. It never felt right…then I was done, but still felt wrong. I was in danger of over-working it. but didn't know what to do. …and I had to go to the dive show DEMA in Vegas to see some clients, meet an art Patron, and have a meeting with a writer who I'm working with to bring you a illustrated mystery-history-novel that takes place in Hawaii during the end of WWII - & the Birth of Exotica. Fun stuff! Well the trip was great. It brought me a fresh perspective when I got back to my island studio, and I took one look at the painting and I knew what was wrong. I forgot the first rule of Saint Tim Hildebrtandt (Patron saint of all fantasy artists) "Thou shalt not forget where thy light source is cometh-ing from!" Sure enough I needed the full color sunset to touch the black and white world inside the hotel room. Hit the cat and the ghost and a few things with a rim back-light of yellow/orange. I jumped to it, and now it feels right. (HOO-RAY!) |
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Sun, Nov 30, 2014 10:45 PM
I watched your drawing of the shark on facebook today. That was terrific. I have my 2015 calendar to enjoy too. Good job. |
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Tue, Dec 2, 2014 4:25 AM
Thanx Wendy! |
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Fri, Dec 5, 2014 10:21 PM
Aloha Tiki Tribe! You can find out if any of that really IS the story... in MARCH, when... WELL, ...that's the story I hear… [ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2014-12-05 23:50 ] |
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Sun, Dec 7, 2014 3:15 AM
Aloha Tiki Tribe, |
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Wed, Dec 10, 2014 4:40 PM
aloha tiki tribe! More Laters…. Thanks! |
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Wed, Dec 10, 2014 11:45 PM
Mele Kalikimaka Tiki Tribe! The things you hear about "ALOHA" are all true. We have it in the Tiki community in So Cal. But I'm glad to say it's Maybe not on the big hustle and bustle of the Honolulu all the time, or the uber-rich Maui hipsters rock-stars and movie stars all the time, but here in this "sleepy fishing village" of Kailua-Kona, I've been made to feel so welcome, that this kid from 25 years in LA just didn't know what was going on at first. Now I cannot leave my house, go to the post office, the store, the beach, with-out people who to me are strangers, coming up and saying "HI!, gosh I love your art, and have it all over my house after I framed all the sheets out of the calendar (I never have the heart to tell them that the calendars are cheaply printed and they that might fade) and they ask, "What are you painting on now?" These thing never happened when I went to the store in LA or the Post office. This is a very small town. I rethink it's really helped my art. I hope I can life up to all the aloha and support and create some really great stuff for my next big art show …back in Los Angeles at La Luz de Jesus Gallery. Cause, big island or not, the "swank west coast Art Scene all happens in LA baby!" Don't know if you read this or not, but, I was surprised, and thrilled, then scared half to death when I read this… "Scared?" you ask? "What do ya mean?" See when I paint, it's like I feel like I reach into my rib cage, and through my guts, through the very fiber of my being, and pull forth something that HAS to be better than what I've painted before. Like, at the end of Ray Bradburys;' "The Halloween Tree", I feel like I am giving up one year from the end of my life to create each really "good" painting. It takes a piece of my soul or life-force right outta' me. Then, I gotta brush that blood and sweat and tears onto the canvas to really create something special that will make people pause and go "Hmmm, wow, there's something you don't see every day. That's cool." Please, don't get me wrong, I am so excited about this chance. I am numb. However, I am also terrified I will blow it. What if I am all out of Art-Life Stuff? I've never understood what makes the creative process work. I have things I do, that are guidelines for me to know if I'm making art or making ka-ka-poo-poo, I'm not posting these thoughts on FB. FB is a TV commercial where I have been lucky enough to sell my stuff. I keep my real thought for you guys, my hard core Tiki Tribe on Tiki Central. Big Mahalo to all the tiki tribe, Merry Christmas, Mele Kalikimaka! - no matter where you live, Thanx for all your support and Aloha! |
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Thu, Dec 11, 2014 10:08 PM
Mele Kalikimaka Tiki-Tribe! ALOHA! |
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Fri, Dec 12, 2014 9:06 AM
Brad - Really like your idea and sketches redoing the Tiki Shark...Even though you said that some of the sketches may be "too much", I really like the one holding the treasure chest. Your right, it has allot going on...but it's extremely cool and I think would make a top notch mug. Not that you need any ideas (creativity is one of the defining characteristics of your art that we all really appreciate), but I had a thought while I was checking out the sketches...I started thinking, wouldn't it be cool if instead of the shark taking a bite of the head, it had a hammerhead shark coming over the top and the brow of the tiki was the hammerhead sharks head? Maybe flowing down the back to represent either a spine or more flowing like hair? I started imagining how it would look if you drew it...and thought I may want to just throw it out there. Just an idea. Love your art. Look forward to seeing what you come up with next. Robert |
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Fri, Dec 12, 2014 1:36 PM
RVICTOR - that's brilliant! |
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Fri, Dec 12, 2014 6:15 PM
Brad your AWESOME! |
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Mon, Dec 15, 2014 3:35 AM
THANX! Really, very much. |
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Mon, Dec 15, 2014 4:42 AM
Mele Kalikimaka Tiki-Tribe, I know, it IS WORK. And, as artists, we should be very happy to even have work in this VERY difficult and VERY competitive field. And I always change something….. ACTUALLY, Truth is I CAN'T seem to recreate perfectly any of my own stuff… I TRY to maintain a nice consistency and CAN'T! At least in my eyes! the same image over and over in my search down this path for true "Tiki" perfection. It's quite cool to think you've made a "mark" on pop-culture … Wow! Guess he's my tiki version of the ever popular: "Angry Wood-Pecker smoking' a cigar" . At least, so far…. Happy Holidaze…and happy Holiday shopping! ALOHA! |
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Tue, Dec 16, 2014 6:59 AM
Mele Kalikimaka Tiki-Tribe!
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Wed, Dec 17, 2014 6:37 AM
Brad - Love the direction you took your sketches in. I think your onto something with the hammerhead face. How many hammerhead tiki mugs are out there? I don't recall seeing many. I'd be first in line to buy one of those. Very cool man. Mahalo for sharing your work with us all. |
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Wed, Dec 17, 2014 7:24 AM
Brad - Love the direction you took your sketches in. I think your onto something with the hammerhead face. How many hammerhead tiki mugs are out there? I don't recall seeing many. I'd be first in line to buy one of those. Very cool man. Mahalo for sharing your work with us all. |
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Wed, Dec 17, 2014 12:26 PM
Sketch books of artists are treasures. I love watching your facebook videos as you work in yours. Thank you for sharing in both places. Wendy |
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Thu, Dec 18, 2014 2:13 AM
Thanks so much! |
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Fri, Dec 19, 2014 11:02 PM
Mele Kalikimaka Tiki-Tribe! Funny, but getting the Tiki-Art out there is starting to happen like , in ways I never expected. Well, it is nice you can still find Todd's work out there in books, if you look for it, it's in some great books! Books So important! It'd be a crime if no one could see Todd's Art except for a a few select uber rich folks! Guess that's how it was in the OLD days… If more eye balls roll over a piece of art does it loose it's value? I'm so proud to be in books like "Surf Graphics" with Big Toe and "Tiki Pop" with Ken Ruzic! That feel's really important. [ Edited by: tiki shark art 2015-01-12 18:01 ] |
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