ArtistAnd Dominos
Bringing In The Old And The New
Back in 2016, I created this painting for Domino's Pizza who asked me to paint the iconic oil painting of Mona Lisa, but with one caveate... she needed to be eating pizza. This was no easy feat, I had to get the correct angle of the slice, the right tone, and make it blend in with the right style as the OG. But, we pulled it off!
Master Pizza
The Mona Lisa is a masterpiece, I'm sure we can all agree. So when I needed to change her, there was a lot of pressure. I had to do her justice! Oil painting is so special and I wanted to make sure she could shine in both a pizza place, as well as the louvre.
The brief was to turn the master pieces into master-pizza's which is so awesome. Not only did the Mona Lisa get a get a make over, but so did other oil paintings from the renaissance period.
We were approached by Dominos to paint a series of iconic renaissance replicas that were altered to focus on the new product launch - Master PIzzas.
The Mona Lisa was painted in classical Renaissance style, using the same techniques as old masters of the time; being a full oil painting, painted as though she was eating a slice of Pizza.
The other 4 paintings were edited in acrylic which allowed us to paint on top of prints and add additional narratives, allowing us to create a lot more work within the time allowed and budget. For example, the hand of God shows the saint handing pizza over to God, the boy with basket shows the model carrying ingredients that would be found on the Pizzas.
Oil Painting Live Auction
Once the paintings we're made, they were displayed in the Domino's establishment to turn it into a gallery and display the ingredients through renaissance art. Then, they invited me down for a photoshoot. You can see how tired I was!
The next stage in these commissioned artworks was to auction them off! You can see in this video what happened to the artwork and how the public had a chance to win one.
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