Tube Painting (acrylic and spray paint on 18"x24" panel)
Artist: John Potter
This painting fits into a series of paintings exploring the use of custom linear halftones I have been working on.
This painting is inspired by the quote "Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's awfully hard to get it back in" popularized by H.R. Haldeman during the Watergate scandal.
This is the same image in it's black and white form and the initial halftone pattern. These are some of the stages of development of the image.
Koi Fish
Siren of the Sea
Buddha
Study for a mural
Scarlet Macaw
Iguana
Study for a mural
Volodymyr Zelensky
Thalassophobia painting
Relaxed girl figure painting
Shipping Container Mural
Lines Portrait
Study for a mural
Tongue
Tube
Brutalism 01 and 02
Robot
Archers
Bubblegum Machine
Andy Warhol
Thrive
Shipping Container Mural
Iguana Mural
Bee Mural
Color Pattern Mural
Abstract Pattern Mural
Astronaut Farmer
Skateboard and Scooter
Book cover portrait
Astronaut illustration
Sushi painting
Painting
Conquistadors illustration
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