Firstly for this blog article there is some replication [of words] from my Instagram profile. However I promise you there is definitely worthwhile additions here for you to learn more about these three individual works.

From my Instagram social media:

“The central piece entitled “Mud Tiger Rectangle” started as an intricate orange background with 21 plus 5 black palette swipes on the paper. Three rows of seven with one row of five. Next day (25th May) I put intense effort to finally make happy with the result.

Afterwards I could see a ‘tiger face’ within the central totem rectangle. I don’t know how this got there. It’s far too ridiculous for me to believe, even myself. Please note the photograph is particularly dramatic with light cascading off the wet paint.

“Yellow Gold Rectangle in Tiger Nation” (base of Totem) was a breeze of joy and ease to make. Its background derived from my additional “Mud Tiger” paint. It required careful palette working.

“Green Gold Rectangle in Tiger Nation” (top of Totem) was immensely difficult for me to make, much as “Mud Tiger Rectangle” also needed multiple palette knife alterations, to make happy.

‘Green’ had palette and brushwork for the rectangle. The gold added is palette work for interest. I thought exclusively of trees making this :]

Very proud of these pieces especially with my meticulous working over individual alternated drafts.

On the 23rd May I made a beauty artwork in just 20 minutes. None of these three pieces in the Totem were twenty minutes each to make. Oh my goodness the effort for these beauties!”

Here is new commentary and photos of the individual works including the first draft for those who have already seen my Instagram:

Kind of cool this one isn’t it? (see photograph immediately above). Swipes of the palette knife on the paper. By the way am I the only artist who doesn’t like the term ‘palette knife’? I would much prefer ‘palette trowel’.

Every artist out there.. ‘palette trowel.. PALETTE TROWEL.. NEVER!’

Honestly though gardeners don’t typically say ‘Spread the soil evenly and ever so gently with your pruning knife’.

Perhaps the ‘palette till’ and ‘palette tilling’ or something to this effect?

To the artwork. I loved this first draft, nearly wishing to keep it as the finished work! Only thing I didn’t appreciate artistically is my garish use of orange. I’ve done a similar thing in a draft before, click the link here for my oil painting: Human Heart.

Interestingly the first draft of “Human Heart” received a lot of social media likes. Likewise I do feel there is something innovative with the concept. Paw swipes, tiger swipes in a patterned formula.

Anyway by 100% pure chance can you believe the four central paw swipes actually become the face of the tiger?! It’s true.

Did I plan this? No! I promise you I had no idea of this myself until afterwards viewing the artwork.

I would not expect anyone to believe this unless they viewed works like “Pure Chance Portrait #2 in Portrait” for themselves.

Whenever these ridiculous chance elements occur I instantly perceive them as my own personal masterpieces. Whereby I cannot replicate their individual uniqueness. They’re all one-of-a-kinds. Freaks of art.

Enough self-gratification, let’s publish the individual works within the totem for your viewing pleasure:

“Green Rectangular Mud Tiger with Three Golds” was originally photographed on quite a bright day. I guess you would need to see the artwork physically to appreciate it’s entire loveliness. That said, please do click on all the images for a closer look.

Gold is always a difficult colour to represent digitally. The light plays with gold even in the image you see.

The tiger face within “Mud Tiger Rectangle with Tiger Face” is perfectly pure chance placed in the centre of the rectangle.. *laughs*.. since I couldn’t have placed it better myself!

In my opinion this is one of the most beautiful brown-black combinations I have seen. Obviously I’m completely biased with this opinion being as this is my art, my artworks.

I’m supposed to be all very modesty.

Instead I shall share one of my witticisms, a fun saying I have in the style of a famous comedy genius:

“do you like it?, i like it, do you?, oh marvellous, isn’t that marvellous?, splendid marvellous, oh i like it, splendid, oh really?, wonderful, marvellous, oh we like it, that’s it then, marvellous.”

I laughed even just re-reading this fun saying to myself.

“Sunshine Yellow Rectangular Mud Tiger” is a rectangle representing the Sun, that is yellow.

*LAUGH*