Well there you go “M Gold Eight – Original” is the actual acrylic painting originating all the Variations digital works I made from this.

It features real 24k gold leaf in two fashioned squares. The eight is not a planned number reference. It is purely chance through my amalgamating the two gold squares. It was made in portrait over landscape from the beginning.

Yellowish painted ‘track‘ lines were added in whimsical focus. ‘Must make it beautiful.. must make it nice’ went my robot thoughts, possibly, haha. I literally went around the eight track with the brush multiple times in my own tranquil art world.

Lots of fun.

I was like, ‘everyone is going to think this is an 8!’ So I titled it with an eight to go along with perceived perception. Is that even a thing perceived perception?

The M at the top completed the piece. One to fill canvas space. Two since I believed it would look awesome, particularly including my own version of Basquiat famed iconography. Which as an artist I cannot write enough regarding my admiration for their secular achievements and natural artistic abilities.

I let light onto the canvas for this photography shot (above).

Today, following my up-to-date photography of the piece I noticed a Frankenstein-like head in the lower gold ‘square’. A humanoid figure to its right can also be imagined. Pure chance I promise. Especially as I only noticed these today lol.

The shapes only occurred through the process of varnishing. A quick indoor photograph (unpublished) on the 18th March shows the two gold leaves near intact upon the canvas.

I put so much effort into professionally cleaning this piece of loose brush bristles from my heavy varnishing. Awake through the hours so I was. Early up working at not much past 0430hrs cleaning into 0705hrs having worked on the piece after midnight (19th March) prior with the varnishing itself!

Necessary since the varnish would dry solid.

Sacre bleu..

.. then joyful after meticulous canvas brush bristle cleaning and daytime working to add the black and green around the ‘eight’ for strong visual definition.

The earlier opaque light paint (to the black and green) surrounding the ‘eight’ was primarily palette knife work by the way. Calming the overall Pop Art piece to how I envisaged it.

Stylistic.

“M Gold Eight – Monochrome” now makes for the seventh Digital Variant.

Namely (1) “M Gold Eight – Collage of Four” (click to see the other Variants), (2) “M Gold Eight – Blue/Red”, (3) “M Gold Eight – Goldish-Brownish/Cyan”, (4) “M Gold Eight – Black/White Sketched”, (5) “M Gold Eight – Green/Magenta”, (6) “M Gold Eight – Burgundy/Bright Green” and this latest version here (7) “M Gold Eight – Monochrome”.

I know, I know, they art all freakeh! Probably love all these as much as any of my other Painted or Digital works.

Am I layering movie themes into the wordology of this article? Yes.

Hope you enjoy these works too.