A new series starts with this...

This December I'm curating an exhibition focused on Superheros and Super villains in room 116 at the Aqua Art Fair in Miami Beach.

As such, in addition to my "Naked Superheros" series, which has been well-documented in this blog and which past pieces hang in many US and European and Latin American collections, I've decided to start sort of a mixed media trompe l'oeil set of works that isolate interesting panels from existing comic books and refocuses the dialogue to make them slightly more interesting (at least to me). 

Below are the steps for the pieces... in the first phase, the panel has been done in charcoal; in the second phase, watercolors have been added to bring it closer to a comic book look -- it's important to me that they retain a "artsy" look and are not just a mirror replica of the original comic -- as a "true" trompe l'oeil would.

This is phase one of "The Caped Crusaders Discover International Terrorism," in this phase it is charcoal on paper, 3x2 inches. 

This is the whole piece of paper, showing the watercolor mixing marks on the top of the piece, searching for the right mix to achieve a close call to the comic book's original colors

And here's the finished piece, "The Caped Crusaders Discover International Terrorism," watercolor and charcoal on paper, 3x2 inches.

Future pieces in this series will have altered text in the dialogue bubbles and also embedded electronic mini LCD screens that run continuous dialogue between the characters.