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TikiMango
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From: Satellite Beach, FL
|  Posted: 2008-11-27 3:25 pm Permalink
I hope everyone's had their share of turkey or tofurkey, whatever floats their canoe. My tryptophan-induced visions lead me to try to paint something that coupled surf culture and the tiki lifestyle. So I present the Surfer's Tapa Cross. A tapa pattern covered with sharks and dolphins, surrounded by a bamboo border.
12x12, acrylic on canvas.
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VampiressRN
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From: Sin City Lincoln Hills (NorCal)
| Posted: 2008-11-27 6:43 pm Permalink
Wow, that is nice, it really pops off the page...looks like gravel art.
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TikiMango
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From: Satellite Beach, FL
| Posted: 2008-11-27 8:58 pm Permalink
Thanks VampiressRN! Man, I haven't thought of gravel art since I was a kid, till you just mentioned it. My parents use to have a gravel art sail boat panel that hung in my mom's sewing room. As a kid I use to pick-off individual pieces of the gravel. Can't remember what I did with 'em though. 
The texture you see is done with a sea sponge dipped in soupy paint, about 3-4 layers of different colors.
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TikiMango
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From: Satellite Beach, FL
| Posted: 2008-11-29 7:31 pm Permalink
It is so nice to have a 4-day weekend! I decided to try something a little more cartoony than what I normally do. This would have probably turned out better as digital artwork, but I like da brush. The Leno Tiki Surfer.
16x20 acrylic on canvas
Close-up
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TikiMango
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From: Satellite Beach, FL
| Posted: 2008-12-04 6:51 pm Permalink
I have moved images of my 24" Ku to my new carving thread.
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kirby
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Joined: May 04, 2005
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From: SoCal
| Posted: 2008-12-04 8:05 pm Permalink
It looks like a tiki carving to me... and pretty good for a first attempt, I think it deserves its own thread...
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tikisbytyler
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Joined: Sep 16, 2008
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From: Neptune Beach, Florida
| Posted: 2008-12-04 8:18 pm Permalink
Very NICE!
This definitely deserves to be with the carvings.
Say what you will, but looks like you are a carver to me.
Really dig the broad grain, too.
WAY better than any of my first carves - kind of sad there aren't any pics of those beasts!
Keep it up. Hope to see more.
Tyler
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Sneakytiki
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Joined: Mar 31, 2003
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From: Boise, Idaho
| Posted: 2008-12-05 03:23 am Permalink
Wow! Mango,
The Wooden tiki and the Surfer's cross are OUTSTANDING!
I whittled a douglas fir walking stick once and it is NOT user friendly.
I tried carving a hardwood once and it was quite frustrating.
I can't wait to see what u do with some soft wood.
Uh, that sounded bad didn't it....
Anyway great work(s)!
S
T
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TikiMango
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From: Satellite Beach, FL
| Posted: 2008-12-05 07:43 am Permalink
Kirby, thanks for the comments and creative pushing, and the use of your torch. Did you get your money back?
Tikisbytyler, thanks for the encouragement and good luck at the Creeks Art & Music Festival tomorrow (6th).
Sneakytiki, thanks for the positives. Douglas fur is a pain, very chippy, breaky, and splintery. Unfortunately, I'll probably carve more of it since I seem to enjoy torturing myself.
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IsleConch
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From: Satellite Beach, FL
| Posted: 2008-12-05 1:11 pm Permalink
I love your Leno surfer...the cartoony style gives it a retro feel.
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TikiMango
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From: Satellite Beach, FL
| Posted: 2008-12-10 7:29 pm Permalink
12x12 acrylic, The Cannibals.
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little lost tiki
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From: Orange,CA-right near the Circle!
| Posted: 2008-12-11 08:45 am Permalink
Very cool Mango!
I like the colors and the concept
and the contrat of tight and rough brushstrokes
graphic and a little loose!
These guys would be great as an animated cartoon...
is there a sort of
"big fish eat little fish eat..."
message here!
great seeing you and your pals at the Tonga!
Keep painting and carving and creating!
Florida's lucky to get your talent..
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FeekeeTiki
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From: Palmdale, CA.
| Posted: 2008-12-12 10:00 am Permalink
Looks centered to me! Very cool, man.
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OceaOtica
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Joined: Sep 29, 2003
Posts: 869
From: la, home of Tiki Ti
| Posted: 2008-12-12 4:48 pm Permalink
the new piece is lookin sharp! sorry we will miss you at teh show tonight, but i will have my pendant to represent you.
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TikiMango
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From: Satellite Beach, FL
| Posted: 2008-12-16 8:27 pm Permalink
I was doing a study for a painting, and got a little carried away with the pen. Based on a hybrid Auguste Rodin's The Thinker and a Darwin's Thinker. What would apes ponder if they came across a vintage bottle of Barbancourt rum and a tiki mug?
Pigment pen on paper, 4x8
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