“Abstract – i don’t know [original]” is the product of multiple painting sessions, goodness knows how many hours.

Firstly this is not a political artwork. I wish to make this clear. I am a humanitarian, impartially. Yellow and blue is a colour scheme I use often in my works, see earlier sketches with sun yellow and sky blue.

Red/yellow, green/blue – these are natural hues I enjoy.

I chose yellow/blue to brighten the canvas. Simple as that.

Van Gogh referenced his own perceived art failures. Even Monet mentioned problems with his canvases, in terms of technical elements he disliked with some works in progress.

Aside from Malevolence upon Trees [click to view] I cannot think of an artwork causing so much difficulty! Sacré bleu. Yet, can you imagine the beauty now of “Malevolence upon Trees” in a silkscreen print? The grass alone is amongst the greatest I ever drew! I made it to appear as Shakespeare writing to you.

Purely for documenting my work I would like to note the paint in “Abstract – i don’t know [original]” was not acquired by myself personally. A non-artist very kindly bought paint on my behalf. Yes, I did pay for the paint. I was just happy to have new paint to work with lol.

Anyway whether this is successful as an artwork, i don’t know. Hence the title. Since I put so much effort in to the canvas I decided to do some digital versions.

I just hope you enjoy something, anything from the hours upon hours and days I put into this canvas:

Nice, I like it.

Vibrant, oriental.

Perspectives.

Mirror.

Pretty jolly.

Funky.

First draft of the artwork, immediately above.

Second draft of the artwork prior to adding yellow, blue and black, immediately above.

By the way the canvas paper got so wet it melded into the cardboard of the pad, this being the last page.

The ISBN on the reverse is now part of the artwork :]

I cheekily included the tag ‘NOT fine art’ for this article 🙊<speak no evil monkey> emoji.

Hope you enjoyed.