Comic Strip: Art Talk Gone Sideways

Have you ever wondered what happens when art meets pseudo-science and art speak? This seven-panel art comic strip explores exactly that.

Black-and-white comic panel showing an artist, explaining a stormy abstract painting with bold brushstrokes.

Artist's Explanation Begins Panel 1. I've always found something hilariously ridiculous about how some artists talk. You know the type in  this world of artistic gobbledygook.


Sketch-style panel featuring an interviewer questioning the painter’s experimental storm scene and swirling colors

 Tonal Plains and Vibration Theory Panel 2. I’m genuinely trying to understand what's happening when an artist speaks in what can only be described as pure nonsense.


Illustration of a humorous interview scene with Pigment gesturing toward an effervescent art piece

Landscape Fizz and Gesso Primer Panel 3. Interviewer asks if the painting is like a "fizzy" soda. The artist takes it as a moment of profound artistic validation of his completely over-the-top explanations. 


Artistic dialogue revealing the absurdity of art world language

The Controlled Art Experiment Panel 4. The visitor realizes they're witnessing an experimental technique in art while the artist admits he might accidentally summon a small weather system.


Comic strip panel showing artist and interviewer discussing a bizarre painting

Engaging the Glazing Finder Panel 5. An exchange revealing the artist's exaggerated technical approach to observing chromatic effects in his experimental painting.


Close-up of the artist's intense expression as he "squints with precision" at his abstract painting, revealing the simple truth behind his technical language.

The Serious Squint Panel 6. A revelation that the artist's specialized "glazing finder" technique is actually just precision squinting at the canvas.


The final panel where the visitor asks for advice for aspiring artists and receives a warning about color wheel chaos.

Wisdom for Aspiring Artists Panel 7. A concluding exchange providing artistic advice, that makes no sense, warning against using complementary color mode unless prepared for chaos.


The actual abstract painting in this comic strip that the comic characters is speaking about is a real one titled “Between Me and the Stars” and available for sale here on my site.

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