PAINTING STORY
The Lion, in Loud Colour
Some paintings observe an animal. This one declares one — flat colour, hard edges, a stare borrowed from print more than from the wild.
Painted in the studio — waiting to find its home.
The Realism Trap
The problem: A lion almost has to be painted 'realistic' — mane, fur, savannah. The brief wanted to break that reflex and treat the lion as a graphic object, not a nature study.
The buyer wanted range on the wall, not another faithful animal.
Repetition as the Mane
The solution: The mane was built from repeated stencil-like shapes rather than drawn strokes — the pattern itself becomes the subject, and the lion becomes a poster.
Free-drawn manes kept drifting back toward realism. A fixed repeated unit forced the graphic read.
Four Colours, No Apology
The body
Loud, flat, the colour you notice first.
The negative space
Pushes the orange forward and keeps the poster feel.
The mane accents
Adds the third pop so it never settles into two tones.
The hold
Hard edges keep every shape graphic, never painterly.
Keeping It Flat
Masked flat fills
How: Each colour blocked in clean, no blending across boundaries.
Why: Blending would betray the print language.
Uniform outline weight
How: Every edge gets the same black line.
Why: Equal weight is what makes it read as a poster, not a sketch.
A Place It Could Belong
We imagine it in a young person's room or a studio corner — somewhere that wants energy more than calm.
Potential settings:
- Teen room
- Studio wall
- Entrance pop
For Someone Who Likes Loud
This piece is for someone who wants the wall to speak first — bold, graphic, unapologetic, a deliberate break from the rest of the collection.
Ideal owner traits:
- Likes colour
- Wants energy
- Enjoys a statement
EXPERIENCE IT
See it for yourself
Signal Orange
The body
The first colour the eye lands on.
Interested in this painting?
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