Blog entry April 18, 2013 #NKOTB
So I did a pretty funny illustration for Valentine's day of Adventure Time Characters and switch out some identities, that sparked a commission offered from a collector of mine who's wife is a big New Kids fan, never in my life would I ever expect to do something like this so I jumped on the idea, not because of the money ( never hurts) but because NO ONE would ever expect to see it done by me. And those are the things I love to do... So above is the end result, I had to pic references from a certain period of their career, obviously they went thru a young kid phase and now they're doing a come back so they're on the older side in pictures. I was informed her favorite in the band was Donnie, so I made sure he was in the middle, a bit more stylized than the rest and he was holding one of these "Teeny Bopper" mags autographed to MAE.
Check the full piece in the ILLUSTRATION section. Stay tuned for more wacky shit as I am working on about 8 other commission pieces currently. And feel free to drop me a line if you think youre interested in a piece. In regards to turn around time you would be much better off picking up something that is already painted in my opinion because I painted it purely for the love.... When someone says " I have $5,000... the entire time Im painting it and listenin' to music in my studio relaxing, its annoying to keep hearing that money in my head.... there's a fun side to doing a new piece with a new idea, but I prefer not to be thinking about dollars when Im in the creative place....
here's a couple other pics I had on the camera.... Check it out... more to come later
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________