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Philip Lynott Maxell Portrait Canvas Painting

This new artwork is painted in acrylic paints over a printed canvas of my line drawing of Thin Lizzy frontman, Philip Lynott.
The painting is on canvas and mounted on a heavy wood frame block 2.5” deep and is size 40” x 28” and is one impressive piece of work. It was fun to revisit too and brought back many happy memories. I hope it goes to a real Lizzy fan too. Bon voyage.

The pictures show the detail of the new painted canvas and also the new artwork beside the original.

I have made a blog post with videos and explanation of how it was done. You can see it here!

What’s the story?

This image was created with the permission of the man himself, Philip Lynott, and the image was derived from my own artwork for the back cover of Thin Lizzy’s album Black Rose. (show).
Philip was a bit stuck for money at the time so this opportunity was welcome and he got a good laugh from it too.
The poster was part of a huge ad campaign and was my own idea.
I was a freelance consultant Creative Director in a Dublin ad agency at the time and when I ran it by Philip he was chuffed so we went ahead and produced colour ads, leaflets, posters and even giant bus side hoardings.

This one was for Philip himself and we did it for a commissioned series of bus sides for Maxell Tapes, a major Japanese company back then. The first version was in black and white and used as a promotional poster for Maxell, the colour version was for the bus side had had a copy line I wrote:
‘Maxell are the best, youknowharramean.’

Check out the Original Vintage Poster here!