thank you. thank you very much.
las vegas style diptych for a wonderful patron.
each 14 x 16in, oil on velvet, by gil corral. summer 2024 .
black velvet art
new work . 007 /
custom portrait. 16in x 20in Fall 2024. oil on black velvet
apparently this was this fellow’s dream for many years, to have a black velvet portrait done. his wife made it happen and her words are some of my most favorite:
“He loves it! He was so surprised and stoked when he opened it. He has been tell ing me for 20 years that he needed to have a velvet painting of himself. My husband loves it so much - He’s just disappointed that it’s not life sized.”
new work . louis /
serious business indeed.
custom portrait 14in x 16in. spring 2024. oil on velvet.
new work . matadora /
a very very large canvas. a nod to the old skool for sure.
Fall 2023 . 48in x 25in, oil on black vevlet
Matadora by Gil Corral
new work, spring 2024 /
commissioned dog portrait. by gil corral oil on velvet. june 2024
latest projects - july 2024 /
a project from Summer 2024.
custom commission, 24in x 36in velvet canvas - oil on velvet.
black velvet painting by Gil Corral, 2024. Chiaroscuro Monk Meditating on the easel
boy from michigan via biddeford, part ii /
it’s HERE! in all its amazingness.
john, it’s really beautiful. and such an honor to see your vision realized, and to work with you to help realize this vision. check the blog post just prior to this one for more details.
and the trading cards even come with a puzzle to assemble on the back and BUBBLE GUM ! no nostalgia was overlooked ♥️
boy from michigan via biddeford /
gil corral - painting john grant on black velvet, summer 2020. photo by lauryn sophia
last spring. spring of 2020, we had a really wonderful series of phone calls and texts with artist/musician john grant. we talked about black velvet paintings of course, and also growing up the midwest (coco’s formative years were in iowa and indiana), growing up an outsider, growing up going to state fairs and other common experiences we shared. within all of that he shared his vision for the album he was working on and the album cover art that he just knew gil would be the one who could do it with the quality he desired. the result of all of this is not only four pieces of super beautiful, rich, FULL of feeling velvets on one super incredible musical oeuvre d’art, but a warm friendship to boot.
the album releases june 25! can’t wait to get our hands of a physical copy. check out some of what john and his record label did with the images and packaging and all of it, i won’t even try to describe - truly a picture/black velvet painting is worth a thousand words….!
oh and last august, when the lauryn sophia of decor maine magazine was here at the hogfarm taking photos for the upcoming article, gil was working on the finishing touches of john - you can see it in the article - and i’ll add more behind the scene peeks here:
at gil’s easel - in biddeford maine, right before sending them to reykjavik iceland
gil corral - painting john grant on black velvet, summer 2020. photo by lauryn sophia