Fig 01. Final Artwork
Project Dossier Artwork
Robert Molenaar
Leyendecker-inspired Robert Molenaar portrait for The Square Ball Summer Special, translating cult-Leeds oddity through a Saturday Evening Post lens.
About the Project
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Figures 10
Client The Square Ball
For The Square Ball’s 2019 Summer Special, including a Leyendecker style Molenaar. manga fight between Garry Monk and David Wagner, plus a Galactic Davide Somma.
My main piece was the Cellino car park incident of... 2014? A while ago. You know who drove Massimo around that fateful day? Brian McDermott. Apparently.
April. 2019
Molenaar’s paunch, but Leyendecker.
Tried to jam Robert Molenaar’s face into J. C. Leyendecker’s style.
Surprisingly difficult to emulate one of the best painters who ever lived. He did most of his best (my favourite anyway) work for The Saturday Evening Post, which I thought might nicely translate to the equally splendid Yorkshire Evening Post.
Selected plates 9 figures
A curated image run built to let the print object, surface, and detail breathe on the page.
Arrangement Paired plates
Sequence Fig 02–10
Viewing Open still plates
Open any figure to inspect surface, print detail, and framing more closely without losing the overall sequence. Motion plates play inline at full page size.
Fig 02. Detail View
Fig 03. Material Study
Fig 04. Print Context
Fig 05. Detail View
Fig 06. Material Study
Fig 07. Print Context
Fig 08. Detail View
Fig 09. Material Study
Fig 10. Print Context
Sequence note
The closing plates are intended to read like a print-room pass: object, surface, and image held in sequence rather than treated as isolated uploads.
