NOTE FOR ROB: The price is my way of reserving the artwork for you. In case my email went to spam, you’ll receive an email from my business account instead of the one displayed on my website. If you want to grab it just use your email address, all lowercase, as the coupon code to reduce the price to $550AUD. After varnishing the earliest postage date could be June 19th, 22nd to play it safe.
This artwork was requested as a non-commission based on a previous artwork I created, ‘ROMSOM’ which is an acronym for reflection of my state of mind and created based on a study which showed that the more greyscale a persons instagram was, the more depressive symptoms they exhibited. I’d say I’ve improved in painting clouds so this request ended up being a really fun challenge. This time I didn’t include black in the clouds and approached them differently which I think worked out really well! There were other challenges that were interesting to paint, like the motion of the propeller and the tiny figures.
This time round, since it’s a non-commission, I’m allowed creative freedom and in the era of my career I’m in right now I’m really enjoying painting tiny figures in my artworks, like the artwork ‘Surrealists and Psychology’ and ‘Running Wild with Still Life’. So I included tiny figures that pop up in my other artworks, like horses in poses you’d never be able to photograph, bunnies floating around, cacti like my main artwork ‘Trauma’ and my cowhide pears. I see it as you’re in the sky scape of your imagination and these items are zooming around doing their own thing.
What was really fun about this artwork was the request for a biplane somewhere, once I looked up examples it became a really interesting part of the artwork to paint as I’ve never painted one before.
In the end I decided to name the artwork ROBSOM as a play on the prequel’s title but instead it’s Rob’s state of mind.
This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
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