Game Boy Painting by Ian Viggars: 15 cm x 21 cm (A5)
- Hand painted and finished - Includes the artist's signature and year of completion written on back - Acrylic paint and Posca pen on thick acrylic acid-free paper - The painting is a one-off, and comes unframed
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In the Christmas of 1989 or 1990, I received an original Nintendo Game Boy as my main present, and I was ecstatically happy with it. My family probably didn't get much attention out of me throughout the entire holiday, with me being engrossed in Tetris and Super Mario Bros. I was obsessed. Fast forward to me being an adult and I still love retro computer games and 90s designs, and so I chose to recreate the original Game Boy as a painting in my signature pop art style.
Here the Game Boy is presented straight on, with some of its features simplified, including a suggestion of a game of Tetris on the screen drawn with a shiny gold Posca pen giving it a shimmering screen-like effect.
I love presenting items in a simple, pop art style, opting for graphic impact rather than realism. The object is here set against my often used sky blue background.
Size - 5.7 inches x 8.2 inches 15 cm x 21 cm Roughly 1mm thick
The painting will be packaged in a thick envelope and sent with fully tracked postage.
My work, as ever, has been inspired by the classic pop artists like And Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, as well as modern day graphic artists, and food packaging.
