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\u201cCadmium Red & Mars Black Untitled #1\u201d [26th December 2024] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, acrylic painting on A4 250gsm mixed media paper, 5000 x 6879 pixels.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cCadmium Red & Mars Black Untitled #1\u201d whilst made very quickly in portrait orientation is in fact an abstract. I only noticed the side profile head shape afterwards upon photographing the wet painting. My own focus 100% on making contrasts with the red, black and palette knife textures.<\/p>\n

The work is subconsciously inspired of Frank Auerbach.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I photographed this piece on a black cloth vest with light blocking-surrounds excluding camera flash. In effect the piece appears to make its own light since I photographed this completely under shadow.<\/p>\n

If you view the work in portrait at 180 degrees you might distinguish a squirrel (in side profile), perhaps a rabbit or some other cute fanciful like-creature facing the viewer.<\/p>\n

nb Produced in one draft with my favoured palette tool. One tidying draft millimetres around the edge with brush only. I carefully retained the entire main abstract working seen here from the first draft exactly as spontaneously made.<\/p>\n

I do not know how the human portrait formed from an abstract.<\/p>\n

Next we have \u201cFragments #1\u201d:<\/p>\n

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\u201cFragments #1\u201d [19th December 2024] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, acrylic painting on A4 250gsm mixed media paper, slightly cropped paper, 5566 x 5934 pixels.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Do you see Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

On 19th December I utilised two A4 papers on the same day with random paint scrages from an as yet unpublished mixed media piece on A3 (\u201cConker Lots\u201d<\/a>).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

These became \u201cOrange & Violet Untitled\u201d<\/a> and this work \u201cFragments #1\u201d.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOrange & Violet Untitled\u201d featured a predominantly Mars Black ground, inadvertently influenced by the formation of \u2018guitar pegs\u2019 around the portrait head.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFragments #1\u201d also features Mars Black, somewhat already preplaced randomly.\u00a0 To this I added orange with an umber acrylic mix, carefully balancing colours on the canvas paper.<\/p>\n

My intuitive brush scrapes of \u201cFragments #1\u201din a Cy Twombly style unintentionally collaborating with the Jean-Michel Basquiat style purposed in \u201cOrange & Violet Untitled\u201d.<\/p>\n

As an artist I\u2019m immensely intrigued to how viewers respond to \u201cFragments #1\u201d.<\/p>\n

Next is \u201cPitchfork Hands Man\u201d:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cPitchfork Hands Man\u201d [20th January 2025] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, acrylic Pop Art painting on A3 250gsm mixed media paper with one lined Notepad paper as a painted central collage, 5000 x 7087 pixels.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I made \u201cPitchfork Hands Man\u201d on 20th January 2025. On 8th February 2025 I read a CNN article<\/a> (you can click the link to see the article) detailing a man knocking over a 19th Century candelabra at St Peter\u2019s Basilica at the Vatican!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s give more information about the artwork itself.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The lined Notepad paper with lovely textured inner cadmium-red paint looked rather arty. It\u2019s paint scrapes originated from another recent work.<\/p>\n

I began to paint play with sap green, cadmium-orange and then cadmium-yellow on the lined Notepad paper ensuring I retained all the beautiful red premarked paint.<\/p>\n

Whilst making this I randomly scraped a brush loaded with yellow onto slightly premarked A3. With this separate A3 I began making hair, eyes and a face for fun.<\/p>\n

Seeing potential I decided to intuitively place the Notepad piece centrally to produce a Pop Art character. I painted around the Notepad-body in gold to make the lined paper part of the A3 artwork.<\/p>\n

Intriguingly if you turn the A3 anticlockwise 90 degrees to the left, the yellow eyes at your lower-left, I perceive a large authoritative head and face from the lined Notepad paper. This new character is not planned, merely a result of my retaining the premarked textured red paint.<\/p>\n

Pitchfork hands each with seven prongs were added to complete the piece.<\/p>\n

Finally for this blog article we have \u201cLaughing Lion Eye\u201d here:<\/p>\n

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\u201cLaughing Lion Eye\u201d [6th to 11th February 2025, wet paint photography] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, acrylic painting on A3 (42cm x 30cm) 2mm white gesso primed wooden board, with border for social media publishing only, 8000 x 8000 pixels.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Personal quote on 11th February 2025:<\/p>\n

\u201ci genuinely made this in landscape with what became an eye at the upper mid centre-right. Seeing potential i turned this 90 degrees into portrait, et voila. i mixed red, green, blue (this afternoon) as i am out of pre-mixed black, making the definition outlines you see. this kind of piece is immensely exciting to me for its spontaneity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u2018laughing lion\u2019 in the eye is 100% chance. I didn\u2019t notice this strange animalistic formation until photography again on 11th February.<\/p>\n

I had no intention of making a portrait character prior to turning the painting 90 degrees.<\/p>\n

Hope you have immensely enjoyed a flurry of portrait publishing to my blog in this article.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n