Sustained Investigation 10

Wanted Dead or Alive

12x12

Acrylic Paint

This is my 10th Sustained Investigation where I painted a "Wanted" Poster of the former president of the United States. I decided to make this project after the criminal charges and lawsuits were being brought up after his presidential term ended, and I believe his presidency will go down in history (good or bad to some people) and making a painting that sort of recapped some things from his term felt appropriate. For the whole painting, I started with sketching with pencil and later going in with acyrlic paint. I mainly focused on his silhouette and background to paint because I felt like adding more of a collage aspect as I've been doing with my other recent sustained investigations. I looked at what was actually on a wanted poster, and It was details about a person, the "reward" money and a description on why they are wanted. I was orginally going to paint out all the words and only print out a few things to stick on, but I thought it would look way more clean If I printed out the words instead. I spent a majority of my time researching article headlines to include that would highlight moments from the beginning, middle, and end of his term. I also thought it would be funny to add his last seen location as NOT inaguration day because he was the first president in 150 to not attend one. Although I was expecting myself to paint more in this project, I'm still pretty happy with how It turned out and think it looks really clean, just how I imagined it looking.