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The "Lurid" Tiki Art of Brad (Tiki Shark) Parker |
Tiki Shark Art
Grand Member (6 years) 
Joined: Aug 31, 2006
Posts: 2761
From: The volcanic Big Island of Hawaii
|  Posted: 2013-01-19 5:55 pm Permalink
Mankind figured out how to do this with chalk boards and note paper and pencils. Makes you wonder (and scared) what is being designed now... that we may or may not know about.
A hui ho Bikini Atoll!
Sorry fer being so moody, but, guess I'm listening to the audio book Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson and it's got me thinking about the crazy things that came out of the war in the Pacific.
I wrote a (bad) Haiku book review about Cryptonomicon:
pearl harbor cold
a godzilla enigma
world war two much gold
aloha
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Tiki Shark Art
Grand Member (6 years)
Joined: Aug 31, 2006
Posts: 2761
From: The volcanic Big Island of Hawaii
| Posted: 2013-01-19 8:05 pm Permalink
Aloha Tiki Tribe!
Still drawing out tiki mugs... a set of 3. Body Glove Sea Creature tie -in. Tiki Farm working with me. Designs not quite ready to show yet....so here's this ....
ALOHA!
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Tiki Shark Art
Grand Member (6 years)
Joined: Aug 31, 2006
Posts: 2761
From: The volcanic Big Island of Hawaii
| Posted: 2013-01-19 11:08 pm Permalink
Aloha tiki-tribe!
Wow! Dig this really beautiful and amazing Tattoo of "Hula Baby" an art patron has done - one of the best tattoo versions of my art I've seen yet. his tattoo artist is really darned old - it looks as good as the painting! Check out his work... http://jeffhoustontattoo.blogspot.com
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danlovestikis
Grand Member (8 years) 
Joined: Jun 17, 2002
Posts: 3561 | Posted: 2013-01-20 09:08 am Permalink
Wow. So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde and that's it hangin on the shed. I hope he wears shorts for the rest of his life because it would be a shame to ever cover that up. Wendy
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Tiki Shark Art
Grand Member (6 years)
Joined: Aug 31, 2006
Posts: 2761
From: The volcanic Big Island of Hawaii
| Posted: 2013-01-21 8:28 pm Permalink
Aloh Tiki Tribe!
In the chaos that is my art studio, here's one shelf with some real-deal tikis, and some not so real tikis...and Hell Boy guarding them.
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Brad (Tiki Shark) Parker
"Brad Parker creates lurid paintings that pull in influences from tiki, comics, and rock."
- Honolulu Magazine "The Best Of" 2012 Issue
www.tikishark.com
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Tiki Shark Art
Grand Member (6 years)
Joined: Aug 31, 2006
Posts: 2761
From: The volcanic Big Island of Hawaii
| Posted: 2013-01-24 7:37 pm Permalink
Aloha Tiki Tribe!
So... FINALLY we are down to getting another set of tiki mugs done! ...well, the first steps of the design. ...which is based on a "tiki-Art" painting, ...which is then based on an award winning short monster/surf film by writer/directer/surfer Greg Browning.
Here's the mug design in step one (there abouts) with Tiki Farm.
Here's a cool behind the scenes on the making of the sea creature movie you might dig...
http://surf.transworld.net/1000151677/videos/imaginarium-behind-the-scenes-with-body-glove/
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Tiki Shark Art
Grand Member (6 years)
Joined: Aug 31, 2006
Posts: 2761
From: The volcanic Big Island of Hawaii
| Posted: 2013-01-24 7:58 pm Permalink
Aloha Tiki Tribe,
For those of you out there who like to see the smuggy pencil original art work, I'm am going to post the drawings (before Holden had to stay up all night and clean them up). Here's the BODY GLOVE SEA CREATURE in the first pencils...
ALOHA!
B~
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tigertail777
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 25, 2004
Posts: 504
From: Oregon
| Posted: 2013-01-24 9:19 pm Permalink
WOW! That mug looks awesome! I really like how menacing and otherworldly he looks!
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Tiki Shark Art
Grand Member (6 years)
Joined: Aug 31, 2006
Posts: 2761
From: The volcanic Big Island of Hawaii
| Posted: 2013-01-25 1:47 pm Permalink
TIGERTAIL - THANK!
ALOHA TIKI TRIBE! HAPPY ALOHA FRIDAY!
SO - YES TIKI MUGS ARE A COMING!
The "SHARK-TIKI" tiki mug!
This one's about 7
it's been a real dream project. I threw my all into designing them. Tiki Farm is putting alot of effort into it also. It all started with the short surf / monster movie by Greg Browning
see that here:
http://surf.transworld.net/1000151561/videos/imaginarium-body-gloves-the-disappearance/
Here's a cool behind the scenes on the making of the sea creature movie you might dig...
http://surf.transworld.net/1000151677/videos/imaginarium-behind-the-scenes-with-body-glove/
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TikiFool
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Apr 09, 2007
Posts: 28
From: Connecticut, U.S.A.
| Posted: 2013-01-26 08:33 am Permalink
You remain the God of pencil sketches.
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Tiki Shark Art
Grand Member (6 years)
Joined: Aug 31, 2006
Posts: 2761
From: The volcanic Big Island of Hawaii
| Posted: 2013-01-31 3:08 pm Permalink
ALOHA TIKI TRIBE!
Tikifool - THNAX so much! Howzit , I've been thinking of you a lot lately. Hope all is well on your side of the enchanted island.
Here is the this mug isn the BODY GLOVE SEA CREATURE tiki mug set - coming in 2014 from Tiki Farm.
front & side view of the Body Glove Anniversary tiki mug
Side & Back view of the Body Glove 60 year anniversary Tiki Mug
These mugs are from elements from a tiki-art painting I am doing.
Working on the palm trees and ground.... this painting will be used in the box packaging for the tiki mug set...
some changes are being made on the mugs a little . Mostly just verbiage. Like where the words go or don't go...
all this is based on the surf/monster film by Greg Browning - check it out http://surf.transworld.net/1000151561/videos/imaginarium-body-gloves-the-disappearance/
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Tiki Shark Art
Grand Member (6 years)
Joined: Aug 31, 2006
Posts: 2761
From: The volcanic Big Island of Hawaii
| Posted: 2013-01-31 3:10 pm Permalink
Aloha Tiki Tribe!
Here's writer/.director/surfer Greg Browning & the big Green guy & yours truly...
Painting and mugs to be a coming....
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Brad (Tiki Shark) Parker
"Brad Parker creates lurid paintings that pull in influences from tiki, comics, and rock."
- Honolulu Magazine "The Best Of" 2012 Issue
www.tikishark.com
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Tiki Shark Art
Grand Member (6 years)
Joined: Aug 31, 2006
Posts: 2761
From: The volcanic Big Island of Hawaii
| Posted: 2013-01-31 3:17 pm Permalink
ALOHA TIKI TRIBE!
I heard a weird rumor that Face Book is killing Tiki Central. Think that's true? ! Huh? I donnuo. I remember almost going into a cold-sweat panic when TC was down for a while - I felt so cut off from the tiki tribe! I'm way out here on this island. This is like a connection to civilization...or the tiki underground.
I post thing on fb, in a careful way. It's almost a commercial area for me. Tiki Central is more hard-core "Tiki Tribe", and I can post more stuff without seeming too weird. And I think I will now, after hearing that rumor, gon out of my way to post more on TC.
Here's the tiki Shark art studio - it was hard getting back to work on the acrylic painting after doing all that pencil work on the tiki mugs. Changing gears...tricking. Color! Layers!
ALOHA!
Tiki-Shark
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Brad (Tiki Shark) Parker
"Brad Parker creates lurid paintings that pull in influences from tiki, comics, and rock."
- Honolulu Magazine "The Best Of" 2012 Issue
www.tikishark.com
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Bowana
Grand Member (4 years) 
Joined: Nov 10, 2006
Posts: 1117
From: La Mesa, CA
| Posted: 2013-02-01 07:35 am Permalink
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On 2013-01-31 15:17, Tiki Shark Art wrote:
I heard a weird rumor that Face Book is killing Tiki Central. Think that's true? !
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Unfortunately, I think it is true. I tried to keep my FB friends and TC friends in separate tribes, but it could not be done. I'm guilty myself of posting more on FB and than TC anymore. The problem was the gratification. Post something on TC nowadays and maybe you'll get a reply or two. Post something on FB and you'll get replies for days. Gotta post more on TC to keep it afloat!
Anyhoot, fantastic work, Brad! I really like how the Body Glove mug is shaping up. Can't wait to see it and the movie when all is finished!
Bowie
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danlovestikis
Grand Member (8 years)
Joined: Jun 17, 2002
Posts: 3561 | Posted: 2013-02-01 08:28 am Permalink
The art is incredible so much detail to enjoy.
I love Tiki Central and hate facebook so the news I read here is horrible. Wendy
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