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[ I pre-doodled the letter ‘M’ in pencil on card and then set to work on a new painting.
“Comic Book Series [Letter M]” took two drafts each within approximately one hour. The first draft completed prior to 1550hrs, then the latter draft finissimo prior to 2235hrs. In the latter draft I carefully added the Mars Black outline for definition, finely adjusted the gold detailing and made ultra-finite balancing perfections to the lettered area.
Van Gogh-like impasto brushworking, vibrant comic book tones with stylistic fine art emotion in an artistically precise Pop Art piece.
There are six beautiful digital versions to compliment the Original acrylic painting. The six digital versions are individual works along with one six-grid collage in a three-across two-rows configuration. ]
Kind of awesome Pop Art isn’t it.
With my work I’m always requiring professionalism, high quality and artistic value as an artist. I love amazing you! I love amazing myself.
Would you like to know a secret?
The face in the centre is pure chance! True.
I only noticed this the next day (3rd November) after I photographed it academically. That is to say, not a quick draft evaluation photograph.
I made two palette knife scores in the style of the heavy impasto gold surround from “Golden Whale with a Voice”. An artistic decision I made for two reasons. Firstly, I love my palette working in that piece! Secondly, I had made this style of palette work in the prior draft to “Comic Book Series [Letter M]” and wanted to restore something from this in the gold.
The majority of the gold texture in “Comic Book Series [Letter M]” is produced through brushwork ‘fluting’, after careful palette knife placement of the gold.
Let’s take a look at my Collage 3×2 Grid here:
Be honest, this blows your mind, I hope.
The co-ordination of tones is my compositional choice to wow you✌🏽.
It certainly wows me!
Some time after making my works I often say to myself ‘Did [I] make this!?’ 🤯.
– ‘I did. It was me. I love art I do.’
You can see the individual Digital pieces BLUE, YELLOW, PINK, ORANGE, GREEN & PURPLE (corresponding to the background for each artwork) here:
BLUE is brightly-dark.
YELLOW is cheerily-sombre.
PINK is vibrantly-sad.
ORANGE is mellowy-unhappy.
GREEN is vividly-distressed.
PURPLE is interestingly-mooded.
These artworks were made to cheer our day no matter our circumstances. This is how I interpreted my subconscious feelings finding their way onto the canvas.
