Original artwork description:

Launched in the late 90s during my teenage years, the phenomenon of the Furby was briefly inescapable. Some loved them, some found them creepy, but for a period it felt like everyone I knew had one of the electronic robotic toys.

With their wide eyes and owl-ish appearance, the Furby was unique in that it would speak it's own language, "Furbish", that would then evolve more into the user's language the more you played with it, like machine learning. Naturally lots of playground rumours abound, with some claiming the Furby would talk away at night even with the switch turned off. Some, like me, simply enjoy how mad they look.

Here the more rare blue-grey Furby is presented straight-on against a bright yellow background, all painted in acrylic paint and Posca paint pens, on high quality thick paper. I love revisiting retro items from the past, much as my hero Andy Warhol did with his Campbell's soup cans. The final image shows some of the other A5 paintings of 90s albums available in my shop.

This is part of a series of works done on standard UK paper size A5, hence the lower price. The series depicts smaller, more detailed objects. It comes unframed on high quality paper, but I've taken photos of the piece in a white frame for display purposes.

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.

Materials used:

Acrylic Paint, Posca Paint Pen, Acrylic Paper (Acid Free)

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