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We're celebrating America over here! This is our home landscape, love it or hate it. And RGB is a very American kind of guy, he fits in perfectly here. He's part of this commercial suburban purgatory, grown out of it, but he's also dominant over it at the same time. I love making these scenes (like those in the Coach Dad series) that both idolize everyday Americana but also twist and rewrite it, and rebel against it through the eroticism.

Hope this painting resonates with any Americans among you guys, or even with people who might have visited here and gotten a taste of this slice of our world. Happy 250 America πŸŽ†

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John

You did such a great job with the typical main street businesses. It feels very America. And of course, RGB is super hot.

Blewd

Yeah man this is genuinely an incredible painting. Great job capturing that stroad hell of strip malls and broken down everything.

Brian Campbell

Happy Canada Day ! Seeing RGB today is a treat.

Cordial

Not only is this hot, it looks hot. You can almost feel the sun, the heat rippling off the pavement. Industry and pride and of course the stripping down of our individualism. Love it.

Satyrion

Gas is only $4.49 a gallon!? πŸ˜…

N K

This is so good! Represents so much and also damn hot!

Ted Gideonse

You on California, too? πŸ™€

Ulysses Illustrations (on hiatus)

It’s a testament to your skills how you captured this very uniquely American aesthetic here. And RGB fits right in.

Satyrion

Washington State. It's about a dollar more per gallon than that.

Celery Man

thanks man!! I really enjoyed trying to design a palette of businesses and signage that felt authentic and maybe juuuust a touch exaggerated

Celery Man

thank you sir!! he really does fit in, haha, not coincidentally this intersection is vaguely modeled after one near the gym where I originally saw the guy who inspired RGB in real life πŸ₯΄

Celery Man

thank you!!! happy you like how it turned out πŸ’š

Celery Man

hahaha yeah I guess it's even worse for you guys out west!! πŸ™ˆ

Celery Man

I was really hoping that uncomfortable summer hazy heat would come through!! beautiful blue skies and asphalt baked scorching hot by the sun.

Celery Man

right back at ya, northern neighbor!

Celery Man

thank you man!!! I really really enjoyed getting into all the details of this one πŸ’š

aurinkossa

I'm so amazed RGB managed to stand on Route 1 in Saugus with no traffic whatsoever! I hope he goes to Kowloon after this

Celery Man

hahahah YES!!!! total route 1 saugus vibes. the kowloon might be too classy for him though πŸ₯΄

Cordial

The "Injured?" billboard is killing me and I zoomed in, not for the peen, but to try and see just what was for sale on that whiteboard. lol. This is an amazing piece, and instantly recognizable from any number of rundown towns in America barely holding themselves together.

Toadsevelt

The personal injury law billboard activated something primal within me

Celery Man

lol we've all seen it!! we've all been bombarded by endless personal injury lawyer billboards on every highway

Wayrocket

This is really well done! I like the inclusion of the jet trails among the clouds. There's no part of the image not touched by artificiality, not even the sky. I respect as an artist trying to find the beauty in the ugliest images but I am conflicted over this one. I feel like the beauty in this one was something you added with your artistic skill rather than something uncovered. This is possibly just because as an American I'm too close to the subject matter to give it any grace lol.

slf-unt

I love the whole concept. Personifying America’s postmodernism, RGB dude is the perfect specimen (and he’s a definite specimen 😁)! He really draws the whole complex composition into a focus. πŸ‘