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Sometimes you want some great art on your walls, whether it be in the home or the office.
and cheap department store posters just won't cut it. 

Before any of the team at Imagine Nation became commercial art professionals, we were all artists, that's our first love and we still produce art in our happy time.  And truth be told, there's nobody better to get your art from than the artists themselves. 

Our artists are happy to offer you something from their existing collections or accept a commission.

You may even like to rent or sell art on consignment.
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Celebrate Something

posted Jan 3, 2010 12:27 PM by Ulysses Newkirk


Celebrate Something
18x36in Acrylic on Canvas 
Commissioned by Michael Woo for the 2008 Dally in the Alley
It ended up being a lot more fun than I thought.

the prints and t-shirts produced by The Highway Press really impressed me.

I treated the paint like watercolor and glazed and drew inside the scape of my memories of the early Dally which was originally held as a fund raiser to fight the construction and opening of Detroit's already obsolete incinerator.

I am still honored to have been allowed to join the ranks of some of my favorite Detroit artists.

Time: A face of God

posted Jan 3, 2010 12:06 PM by Ulysses Newkirk



Graphite and mica in acrylic suspension on unprimed canvas
6x6ft 

This is one of the most inspired pieces I've ever painted. I has been a source of joy and heartbreak.
I look forward to working like this again.

The execution of this painting was only about sixteen hours, but the process of producing the finished work took a little over seven years.
The image that inspired it came from a National Geographic article about Nubian grave watchers.
the image is constructed of studies of dozens of people, family and friends.  
I work in composites a lot but what took so long was developing a language for the painting technique, that was three years at the feet of the great muralist, Hubert Massey
then creating my own painting medium and technique of suspending finely ground graphite and mica powder in glazes of transparent acrylic with glycerin to slow the drying.

    
It has always been my dream to design the painting of a basilica (a grand public space). If you have one hanging around doing nothing and would like to sponsor me spending a few years painting your ceilings, please let me know. I'm not doing anything too important for me to stop and create some art.

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