Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/05/14/first-official-portrait-of-king-charles-iii.html
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When you only bought the paints you need for the foreground and then realize you need to do the background too.
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Apparently, the first thing the artist asks his subjects is “what is best in life?”
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Mixed Media: Acrylic and collage on raw ground beef.
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Is he the King of Shitty ‘60s Pulp Novel Covers, now? Or is it Atari cartridge box art? Both would be accurate as the depiction vs reality was always a massive let-down.
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This will provide fuel for royal conspiracy theories for decades.
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Reminds me of when we got a glimpse of the palette for the artist painting Hugo Weaving’s portrait in Captain America (before the mask reveal scene showing Red Skull’s true face).
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I kinda like it? 
I don’t care for the Monarchy or Chaz himself, but the composition and texture of the painting has something appealing to my eye.
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It’s blood,isnt it?
And its probably supposed to be blood.
The blood of monarchy and empire, covering everything apart from the man himself.
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I think it looks nice.
the monarch butterfly is a nice symbol. he could have done the traditional lion or whatever but he chose something pretty and delicate.
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Wait…is this a joke? “…a fine mist of his enemies blood”? Almost fell for it. 
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Scarlet Rot? He’s been hanging around with Melina too often…
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The blood of Princess Di and covering how the man helped transform her into Princess Die himself.
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Bloodclaat!
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I mean yes… but…
No…?
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It’s like one of those portraits that Vincent Price would show an unwitting guest, while describing the demented ancestors who lived in that very same haunted manor, in a Roger Corman or Hammer Horror film.
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