Famous Painting Parodies
Limited edition fine-art Giclées.
copyright © 2004.
View the entire series of Famous Painting Parodies:
The Starbucks Series
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New Art Book
Several paintings from my Urban Action Abstractions series were selected for the latest edition of New Art International (Vol. XII 2007-2008). The annual features 70 artists from around the world and is published in both hard and soft-cover editions. The soft-cover retails for $9.95. I’m told it can be found at Boarders and Barns and Noble book stores. The book’s publisher is Book Art Press of New York.

Why Mona Smiles

Painting Parodies:
The Starbucks Series

It all started in the Spring of 2004 while I was painting a copy of Vermeer's “Girl in a Red Hat.” I decided to do something silly, so I added a cup of coffee, a muffin and Starbucks logo to the painting. Since then I've painted more than twenty parodies featuring work by my favorite artists, and my favorite coffee. The paintings are my homage to works I admire, so I keep them true to the original compositions, while introducing my little twist. Issued as fine art Giclèes in a limited edition are the twenty most popular in 11" x 14" on deluxe archival watercolor paper (edition 50 ea), signed and numbered by me. They are also available in boxed sets of ten for $2100, or individually at $250.
Volume I contains versions of
Da Vinci -Mona Lisa
Rembrandt-Self-Portrait
Toulouse-Laurtec -Eldorado Bruant
Degas -L'absinthe
Renoir -Boating Party
Whistler -Arrangement in Gray & Black
Gauguin -Cafe Arles
Picasso -Three Musicians
Rockwell -Triple Self Portrait
Lichtenstein -Masterpiece
Volume II contains versions of
Vermeer -Girl with the Red Hat
Edward Hopper -Nighthawks
Grant Wood -American Gothic
James Montgomery Flagg -Want You
Edvard Munch -Scream
Van Gogh -Terrace Café
Dali -Persistence of Memory
Manet -Bar at the Folies-Bergere
Cezanne -The Card Players
Kinkade -A Cottage

Gauguin Parodies
A series of paintings satirizing the work of Paul Gauguin that chronical his Pacific Islands period done true to Gauguin's original compositions but introducing 21st century elements into each scene.



Five paintings from my "Cosmic Series" were chosen for exhibit in the 9th Annual Painting, Drawing, Photography Juried International Art Exhibition which runs through October 31 2008.
See them on my web site gallery 1, room 3