I take my depth of canvas to a different level believing a canvas has 5 sides, and should be painted as such. This painting, like all of my pieces, arrives stretched, ready to hang on a quality 40mm frame, with a triple gloss coat and gallery finished edges (there is stuff along the edges also). I spend ALOT of time on these!! But they take me back to my graphics roots. This has been used in places such as the 'Weird Al' Yankovic song 'Canadian Idiot'.

The most common is by countries that have traditionally had monochromatic currency banknotes (such as the United States) to refer to countries that have colorful banknotes (such as Canada). Pieces are created by hand and can, using acrylics, sugar sprays and often multi piece detailed stencil work. 'Monopoly money' is also a derisive term used in multiple senses. a bit sexy sometimes, a bit naughty, a bit of fun and hopefully a few memories. These pieces are intended to be nothing too serious. Like all Pop art, it touches on “Popular Culture” and will feature all kinds of things from our youths and experiences thruout life,and the things we buy, watch, love and feel. Layering is an integral part of all of my art, be it abstracts, Abstract Realism, Book clubs or Urban Pop. I use alot of this for balance, layering and colour within the canvas as well. Thruout these pieces you will see disingenuous tags like “Genuine Romance” “ 1800-True Love” “Never seen before” “This will change your life” “Genuine Taste” etc etc to poke a bit of fun at the constant bombardment we all get of things that are bordering on truth and can be a bit disingenuous. I use some forms of Brandalism once again to replicate advertising on walls.

I create all of my “Urban Pop” pieces with a partial textured base, and in a grungy manner to replicate something of a wall type look. Reds, oranges, yellows, greens, blues, pinks, purples, greys, whites, creams, blacks and metallic gold are featured as well as heaps of layering and texture! I have been back at it again with the Mr Monopoly Men!!! This particular piece features throwing Australian bills into the air with Kermit the frog leading the way in the background!

Monopoly money rules