Bert Ernie

I am Bert Ernie. I paint beauty and madness.

Sea slug – Nembrotha Purpureolineata

Sea slug – Nembrotha Purpureolineata

A photorealist painting of a poisonous sea slug

Photorealist painting - Sea Slug
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One of my very earliest paintings. This cunt of a friend of mine asked me to paint it. Then when I had done it, he didn’t want it. What the fuck is wrong with people? When people would ask for me to create something just for them I would always be reluctant to do so because what’s in it for me? Oh we’ll pay you. Yeah right. So many times have I been fucked over by people with no fucking ethics.

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Dimensions: 51x61cm.
Painted: 1999.
Materials: Acrylic on canvas board.
Availability: For sale $25.

The story behind Sea Slug

I painted this for a friend, who subsequently didn’t want it. It’s a very early painting and was rather easy to do; it required some imagination in terms of enlarging the hard-cropped source image.

Photorealist painting - Sea Slug - Source image
Photorealist painting – Sea Slug – Source image
Photorealist painting - Sea slug - Wall mockup
Photorealist painting – Sea slug – Wall mockup

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