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Post #528125 by Robb Hamel on Wed, May 5, 2010 7:16 AM

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Grog - hopefully plenty of people will see it at Tiki Caliente 2.

Tiki Shark - Doing these series paintings can be painfully repetitive, but I'm trying to evolve this one. I think it'll look nice with Rory's flower suggestion.

zerostreet/tikigodz - thanks!

Here's the pics Wildsville Man sent me of the Palm Springs flower:

Here's my exploratory first brushstrokes:

This is a couple of days later after the paint dried enough to get more to stick:

I'm trying to keep the flowers impressionistic and mostly in shadow so that they don't take over the main subject. I think the painting is done, but I have to look at it after it dries and I brush off the chalk dust.