“Sandpapered Green with Dark Purple in Black & White” is the image you might know from my social media pages.

Here is the original artistic composition of two sandpaper pieces aligned together in colour:

Here is my earlier quotations in bold and brackets:

[ Working on a Pop Art piece through two days of 6th and 7th September I used two pieces of fine sandpaper on the latter day to mix red and blue, making deep purple paint. I made 100% random brush motions whilst mixing the two paints in readiness for my Basquiat style Pop Art piece.

After finishing the Pop Art piece on the 7th September I then pressed the two wet sandpaper pieces together and noted very interesting patternization.

Quickly I arranged these into a curved structure onto cardboard placing a rag canvas underneath.

Photographing this in colour I commented to myself the piece honestly reminded me of Mount Rushmore!

I didn’t realise exactly why until the following day when I made this black and white digital artwork (see foremost image above) without any changes to the random brushwork itself. ]

For clarification the same paper piece was folded against itself to make two prints (shown left and middle). Then for some reason, I don’t know why, I thought I should make a third acrylic image (technically the second print) on another P400 sandpaper piece.

I was amidst making a complex pop art piece “UN noise dash dot” in between this process during its multiple drafts.

Now we get to my own visual interpretation of the completely random mixed paint images..

left: a chimp-ape like those we see in Planet of the Apes! Did you think the same?

[side profile, left eye visible facing to our left, looking rather sullen]

middle: an alien not unlike a creature from Star Wars.

[forward facing front-side profile looking to the right, partially facing towards the viewer, two far placed eyes discernable]

right: Queen Elizabeth II. Clearly this is pure chance, if it does bear any resemblance whatsoever. You decide as the viewer. You could equally say it looks like someones Grandma. Personally I love this image, its beautiful, strong and expressive.

My random mixed paint works are self-interpreted by you. There is no idea for or against in any perceived concept, person or idea. It exists as an artwork devoid of particular reason.

The intellectual artistry is creating something from ‘nothing‘. I literally looked at these green acrylic prints and said to myself ‘I will let these dry and see what I think to them. They do look cool!’

That was it. I was too busy working drafts on the pop art piece to place much thought into any composition at the time. I should say the vivid lime green I used in the pop art piece did settle somewhat darker, both on the pop art canvas and the P400 sandpaper shown in the image above.

Upon producing the black & white digital the following day I could not believe the incredible contrasts! For me as an artist anyway. I fine tuned these in my usual way, as per the digital image you see.

At the time of publishing these two acrylic sandpapers are loose from the other in storage. If anyone wishes to buy the artwork I would make the composition permanent in a deep frame installation. Cast iron molten moulded from a sand furnace then attractively painted would be my high quality choice.

I have further ideas regarding a frame installation for an art collector interested in science-fiction and unusual modern art design imagery.

Uniqueness is valuable of its own making.