Self-Portrait. A R C A N U M
Partly Air-brushed, Partly Painted, Partly Cartooned Graphic Works & Illustrations
Some of these pop-ups lead to pages of a story.
ENJOY!
Most of the work was commissioned for personal or commercial use. Some
was sold by exhibition.
Rendered in acrylic paint, poster paint and ink.
The pop-up images have been deliberately "degraded" to sabotage the attempts
of 'art thieves'.
Images with a red border are available for purchase as Hi-Res Digital
Prints on: https://www.artmajeur.com/moreno-franco
OR: Contact me directly.
The Painterly Style
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Mix of painting, airbrush, inking and crayons
Her Garden Galaxy
Water color & Airbrush.
Personal Collection
L.V.242 - Departing for Sirius 6
Pen 'n Ink + airbrush.
Personal Collection
Tango with Donna Darkwolf
Paint + airbrush.
Personal Collection
'Spente le Stelle' with Donna Darkwolf
"The Stars are Out" by Emma Shapplin.
My Life living with Magick. . .
Airbrush and painting worked over enlarged photo.
For Donna's up-coming book
The Goddess of The Sun -
天照大御神
Starship "Amaterasu Ōmikami"
The beauty and the terror. The sublime and the inevitable.
Inspired by Japanese mythology.
Airbrush & acrylic. Personal Collection
My Barbarella Peligrosa in Red
Painting, Pen 'n Ink & airbrush. My good Wife takes shots at the artist
while I capture her wild, crazy, beautiful spirit. (And she sips her red
wine.
"La Peligrosa" means 'The Dangerous'.
Personal Collection
Borbaletta in Her Secret Garden
Pencil crayon, Pen 'n Ink & airbrush.
Personal Collection
Could Be One or The Other
Wife Barbarella at the beach.
Paint + airbrush.
Private Commission
All The Things She Said
The Illusion of Time and Space
All The Things She Said - Illusion
Detail
Private Collection
How Many Cities Do You Want
I must have been on a losing streak. . .
Water color and Airbrush
Exhibition Sale
Dreaming It Is Almost Her
Pencil crayon, Pen 'n Ink & airbrush.
Personal Collection
Resting Dancers
Pencil crayon and water-color.
Private Commission
1933-SJ Dusenberg
Pen 'n Ink & water-color. And airbrush.
Commercial Commission
The Arrival of The Vasche
No one would believe it. Stunned and disabled.
No one
COULD believe it.
"The Aliens Have Arrived!" No invading armies,
No blazing guns. And NO secrecy!
The quiet arrival of the Vasche diplomatic delegation that presages WHAT?
No one knows. But there are parties and silly celebrations. For what?
We are dying to find out.
Maybe we die WHEN we find out?
Future Primitive
Pen 'n Ink & water-color.
Private Collection
Moonlight Drive to Babylon
Look at how easily you slipped into this Babylon of a city...What's in this The Dirty Diary?
Private Commission
Mundo do Suenas
Pencil crayon & water-color.
Commercial Commission
My Teddy Bear Goes to War
The secret life (and horror) of Plush Toys.
Airbrush, Pencil crayon, Pen 'n Ink
Commissioned Private Joke
Borbaletta in Her Secret Garden
Pencil crayon, Pen 'n Ink & airbrush.
Personal Collection
Lobster Cuisinha Radicale
Private Commission
Heather at Home
Pencil crayon & air brush.
Personal Collection
Mechanisma
Pencil crayon, Pen 'n Ink & airbrush.
Private Commission
The Graphic Style
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Comic-stryle graphics with paint, ink or airbrushed color.
Captain Kream Ice Cream Label
Pen 'n Ink, and Stabilo color pens.
Ice cream packaging.
Even Though I Had Said to my Donna Several Times in a Day . . .
Pen 'n Ink + digital color fill.
Wall hanging for my Shiny Wife
Sofia's Pizza
Pen 'n Ink + digital color fill.
Pizzeria Signage Logo
The Thinly Veiled Threat
A poster I created for my wife's office.
Based on something she said on the odd occassion when someone was trying
their luck.
Pen 'n Ink.
Masked Lady's Wicked Games - Bostich
Where Flamingos Fly - or make up your own story
Pen 'n Ink, and airbrush.
Self-indulgence. (Reflected)
Saturnina
Pen 'n Ink, and airbrush.
Magazine Cover
Sunset Acid Trip
LSD acid trip based abstract sunset
I can paint while I am HIGH!
Wanted Poster
Pen 'n Ink + photo, digitally combined.
Self-Promo Art
Fashion Summer
Pencil crayon and water color.
Women's clothing Boutique Poster
Aqua de Beber Poster
A behind-the-bar-counter poster for a beach pub
Aztec Android
Private Commission
The Secret Life of Cats
Water color / Gauche. Magazine Commission
Human Body A
Pen 'n Ink + airbrush.
Shop Poster Art
Human Body B
Pen 'n Ink + airbrush.
Shop Poster Art
Jet-Assisted Take Off
Pen 'n Ink, and airbrush.
Poster for Magnum Motorcycle Co.
Estudia Portrada
Pencil crayon, Stabilo pen & water-color.
Self-Promo Art
"Das Model" - The Spanish Stairs
Pen 'n Ink & water-color. Song by Kraftwerk.
Commercial Commission
Marylin Monroe Noir
Mixed media. Magazine Commission
Yellow Flowers
Pencil crayon and water color.
Women's clothing Boutique Poster
Machine Dreams
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
Pen 'n Ink, and airbrush.
Marketing Mix magazine cover.
Sasha
Pencil crayon. Magazine Commission
3-D Installations
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Some graphic illustration combined with hardware, fabric or clothing
Pink Shirt - 3D
Self-Promo.
Illustrated stomach - with actual piece of tied blouse and actual piece
of denim jeans waist band
Prêt à Porter 3-D Wall Hanging
An actual sequined mini-dress, molded into shape on a shop mannequin, cut off and mounted onto Masonite base. For a clothing boutique.
Framatome
Personal Collection - 8ft x 8ft in THIS Shape
Five Pieces With ACTUAL fire hose
Lucky 13 - Badge
Self-Promo. There is no Fate. Only Destiny.
For my biking jacket. Applique fabrics on drab olive screen-printed drill.
Pub Decor
Based on the front cover of Playboy Magazine's July 1973 publication. Airbrush illustration WITH REAL ZIPPER.
Before Ghost in The Machine
Based on a short story in Omni Magazine, Jan 1978 publication. If you
look carefully you will see a part of the Hidden Program.
Pen 'n Ink illustration
with real, cut-out aluminium butterflies.
About Studio Franco
Saffron Road
Bracknell
Berkshire. U.K.
RG12 7BS
Design Freelance
My Mobile: +44 799 011 3314
WhatsApp: +27 76 129 9265
morenofranco.design@gmail.com
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