YEAR END BLOWOUT! Tiki Dog - Canvas Giclee - Signed and Numbered

  “Tiki Dog” (2018) was part of “Mean Green Jelly Bean” my L.A. one-man art show at La Luz de Jesus Gallery. Years earlier, I painted what I wanted to be my ultimate “Kitsch” painting. Kitsch is art that appeals to popular rather than high art tastes. Researching, I discovered the first art to be named “Kitsch” was a late 19th century portrait of a cat wearing a ruffled collar. Thus, I painted “Tiki Cat”: a tiki cultured feline. This piece has consistently been one of my best selling art-prints since it’s creation. I always wanted it to be part of a set. However, I couldn’t find a dog that seemed “Tiki-Cat’s” proper other-half. I even started and stopped a canvas but abandoned it as “just not right”. One day, I noticed a friend’s Pug’ dog. It’s head was like the large square head I had on Tiki Cat. It’s big wet eyes were perfect matches to the cat’s enormous orbs. Finally I had found Tiki-Cat’s other half. I saw these two figures as low-brow Hawaiiana reflections of the set of