Commission painted for a friend. One of his favourite bands is The Who. He asked me to paint the famous album cover, and like I do I put my own little spin on it. I always try to individualize each painting, rather than doing a exact copy of the subject. Here I added the Union Jack, in a rough style to help identify with the era and the subject. There`s also some hidden(ish) things within the painting. Such as, the London landscape within the red on the Union Jack. You can see this particularly well just under the planes on the left hand side of the painting.
While painting this, I started getting a feeling of the Britain and the Great. So I wanted to add a little something to commemorate all the fallen and wounded soldiers that have given their all for the country. So I added the poppy on the license plate. and if you look closely, there`s a single empty bullet, with smoke coming out of it. Just as a little indicator to those lost souls.
50 ” X 70 ”
Oils on stretched canvas
This is really quite nice. It almost reminds me of the Mark Wilkinson covers for the old Marillion albums…
Great job. This is more around my taste, artwork with profound meaning incrusted subtly in the work itself.
Thank You Coquiunlimited. It`s important not to do too much, try to keep it as subtle as possible and not have it on the nose, so to speak. I`m glad you liked it. Thanks for the comment. 🙂
Amazing work! Thanks for sharing
Thank You MommyOfEli. Glad you like it 😀