Illustration: Michael Jackson portrait

I was one of those people that liked Michael’s music and video’s and saw him as an artist that lived and loved to create. I never took notice of what was going on in his private life I just wanted to hear more music from him but he never seemed to hit the heights of the great albums ‘Thriller’ and ‘Off The Wall’. When he passed in June 2009 it hit the world hard and he went from having a ‘freak’ status to being revered and missed.

I ran a poll on facebook asking fans of my Facebook page who they would like to see me do a portrait of next – Prince, Jay-z and Michael were the top three choices with Michael getting the most votes.

This piece took over 30 hours to complete, I began work on it 4th October 2011 and completed it 24th November 2011.

I posted progress pics of this piece up to the final outcome on Facebook and on my blog, all prints of this piece have sold out!