Mospeada

[jenius]

That one gets rid of the crazy-sized Legioss that looks like it's half buried in the ground.

[davidwhangchoi]

6 hours ago, Shawn said:

Looks like there is a bidder, so it will be sold. B2 size as well...that would be a very nice addition to any collection.

Can I crowd-fund $2k for a painting real quick? 

looking through my poster collection, they took elements from it to create another variant too

are you going to bid on it?

[akim]

15 hours ago, sh9000 said:

Looks like an illustration done on illustration board and not a print.  I've kept some of mine from the early 90s in a portfolio and they age over time the same way.  I recognized the masking tape around the board for the standard white border.  There is a coating or fixative over the artwork.

Awesome..

 

So...fellows...What do you think ?

 

Is it possibly an original illustration ?

 

Thanks for this discovery and your help...

 

 

[captain america]

8 hours ago, akim said:

Awesome..

 

So...fellows...What do you think ?

 

Is it possibly an original illustration ?

 

Thanks for this discovery and your help...

 

 

Just like with high-end watches, you buy the seller, not the item. Were this an original, I would think that anyone with above room-temperature I.Q. would have made a greater effort to demonstrate the authenticity of the piece, and in so doing fetch maybe 5X the asking price. Without better info, I wouldn't chance it... But that's me.

[akim]

Thanks Captain...it makes sense....

[Big s]

2 hours ago, captain america said:

Just like with high-end watches, you buy the seller, not the item. Were this an original, I would think that anyone with above room-temperature I.Q. would have made a greater effort to demonstrate the authenticity of the piece, and in so doing fetch maybe 5X the asking price. Without better info, I wouldn't chance it... But that's me.

Do Mospeada items like what this may be go for that kind of money. I could see a bigger property going for quite a bit, but I gotta say that I am a bit ignorant over the value of Mospeada items like this painting. I could see something like Macross or Gundam going for quite a bit more and maybe something like Battle Star Galactica or Star Wars going for and extreme amount more, but I’ve never really priced these items.

[26662]

6 hours ago, captain america said:

Just like with high-end watches, you buy the seller, not the item. Were this an original, I would think that anyone with above room-temperature I.Q. would have made a greater effort to demonstrate the authenticity of the piece, and in so doing fetch maybe 5X the asking price. Without better info, I wouldn't chance it... But that's me.

Shutting down the competition to score this at a bargain price for yourself?  Loki would be proud.  /s  🙂  I took a look at the item but I'm not sophisticated enough to weigh in.  

[Shawn]

The seller added a few more closer up pics. In a world of gigabit ethernet and terabyte personal drives we still live in a world with jpeg compression. Ugh.

Also-someone above mentioned it might not have been painted by Suzuki-I would strongly disagree as that is his regular signature logo on the bottom to the left of the Artmic label.

 

[akim]

Thanks for these new pics...

 

Original ?

Printed illustration ?

 

Your opinion ?

 

 

Thanks by advance

[captain america]

5 hours ago, akim said:

Thanks for these new pics...

 

Original ?

Printed illustration ?

 

Your opinion ?

 

 

Thanks by advance

The problem is the seller keeps putting up pictures of the illustration taken from mostly head-on. He would need to post pics of the illustration at an angle with the light reflecting off the surface, so that we can see if there are any masking lines, brush strokes and other hints discernible in an original illustration. That would be the ultimate tell.

[akim]

Ok...

 

So true...

 

I completly agree with you...

[Shawn]

I personally believe its the original. 

I dug out my original VF-1J Takani Milia Gerwalk board, and I don't see brush marks.
And I think that is the dilemma-I don't think these were created in the normal sense of brush and paint-they look very flat, almost like it was done with markers (I know nothing about this btw).

The paint is very thin and flat, there is not a thick build up of layers of paint from what my mind thinks of with an old painting with hills and valleys to the naked eye.

[rematron]

7 minutes ago, Shawn said:

I personally believe its the original. 

I dug out my original VF-1J Takani Milia Gerwalk board, and I don't see brush marks.
And I think that is the dilemma-I don't think these were created in the normal sense of brush and paint-they look very flat, almost like markers? (I know nothing about this btw). If paint it is very thin and flat, its not a build up of layers of paint from what my mind thinks of with an old painting.
 

That looks like an awesome piece!  Can we see the whole thing?!

[Big s]

1 hour ago, Shawn said:

I personally believe its the original. 

I dug out my original VF-1J Takani Milia Gerwalk board, and I don't see brush marks.
And I think that is the dilemma-I don't think these were created in the normal sense of brush and paint-they look very flat, almost like it was done with markers (I know nothing about this btw).

The paint is very thin and flat, there is not a thick build up of layers of paint from what my mind thinks of with an old painting with hills and valleys to the naked eye.

I have a feeling that it’s watercolor. The watercolor paints can be much more difficult to spot raised brush strokes. Oils can tend to have more of a texture to them.

[sh9000]

1 hour ago, Shawn said:

I personally believe its the original. 

I dug out my original VF-1J Takani Milia Gerwalk board, and I don't see brush marks.
And I think that is the dilemma-I don't think these were created in the normal sense of brush and paint-they look very flat, almost like it was done with markers (I know nothing about this btw).

The paint is very thin and flat, there is not a thick build up of layers of paint from what my mind thinks of with an old painting with hills and valleys to the naked eye.

Same here.  Your painting looks like it's done in watercolor.  Watercolor or thin layers of acrylic paint can be applied to illustration board and have no brush marks.  I used to use acrylic paint and prismacolor pencils on illustration board.

[Chas]

I would guess it's  a multi media piece too. Likely water colour with alcohol based 'art' markers. Those have been standard illustration tools since at least the early 70's

(Ok back then they weren't  alcohol based they were Xylene) but same idea.

Edited 7 hours ago by Chas

[26662]

4 hours ago, Chas said:

I would guess it's  a multi media piece too. Likely water colour with alcohol based 'art' markers. Those have been standard illustration tools since at least the early 70's

(Ok back then they weren't  alcohol based they were Xylene) but same idea.

That’s my guess as well.  Was figuring it’s a mixed media piece.

[sketchley]

Thanks for the close up picts!  This is what I was able to glean from it:

Red:  raised ink ("hills and valleys").  Looks similar to the results I get when I used oil-based manga ink.  Appears to be added last.

Purple:  dust artifacts.  Some (black bits?) were added after the fact (paint transfers?), but there is some mixed in with the white/light grey (note the specular highlights in the lower right part of the triangle).  Also appears to be some paper distortion when thin paints (like watercolour) soak into it (it's especially visible in the black area to the right of the yellow circle).

Green: what appears to be a bubble artifact most likely in the darker grey layer under the top whitish colour.

Yellow: parallel scratch marks.  Indicating that the material used in the black layer didn't bond with the paint under it.  I've heard that Japanese artists use "sumi" (the black ink used in calligraphy) to fill in large black areas.  If the underlying layer is an acrylic or otherwise water repellent layer, it makes sense that the sumi wouldn't bond and be easily scratched off.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by sketchley

[davidwhangchoi]

so the mospeada monolisa is real?

 

anyone getting it?