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Black Velvet Future - Gold Crown (2019) Original Mixed-media Painting by Bohdan Svyrydov
60 x 70 x 2cm (unframed)
£777.06
Original artwork description
Black Velvet Future is a medium-size street art inspired mixed-media painting on canvas, created with acrylic, alcohol-based graffiti ink and imitation gold gilding in matte black, glossy black and metallic gold tones. This contemporary artwork combines a dark monochrome surface, tone-on-tone graffiti line drawing, abstract faces, eyes, symbols, dripping marks and a central gold crown, making it a bold statement piece for a modern interior, studio, hallway, office or creative workspace.
The painting is built around the contrast between what is visible and what remains hidden. The background is matte black, while the drawing is made with glossy black graffiti ink. Because of this, the image cannot be seen clearly from every angle. Faces, eyes, mouths, bones, crowns, abstract heads and coded symbols appear only through changing light, reflection and movement around the work.
This visual effect is connected to the idea of the future. We try to look ahead, to predict and understand what is coming, but the full picture never becomes completely clear. The painting offers only hints, outlines and fragments: a face here, a sign there, a trace of movement, a possible direction. The viewer is invited to search the surface, but never receives one final answer.
At the centre of the composition is a bright gold crown. This single gilded element creates a strong focal point and changes the atmosphere of the whole painting. It feels like a small sign of power, irony, memory or fragile confidence placed inside a field of shadows, hidden faces and uncertain signs.
This is not a traditional portrait or a pure abstract painting. The work sits between street art, graffiti painting, symbolic drawing, figurative abstraction and contemporary urban art. The dark velvet-like surface gives the painting a quiet, dramatic presence, while the gold crown adds light, tension and symbolic weight.
This one-of-a-kind mixed-media painting works well in a contemporary living room, hallway, office, studio, reading corner, gallery wall or darker modern interior. Sold unframed. Signed on the back.
Materials used:
Acrylic, glossy black alcohol-based graffiti ink, imitation gold gilding
Details:
- Mixed-media painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 60 x 70 x 2cm (unframed)
- Signed on the back
- Style: Urban and Pop
- Subject: People and portraits
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Original artwork description
Black Velvet Future is a medium-size street art inspired mixed-media painting on canvas, created with acrylic, alcohol-based graffiti ink and imitation gold gilding in matte black, glossy black and metallic gold tones. This contemporary artwork combines a dark monochrome surface, tone-on-tone graffiti line drawing, abstract faces, eyes, symbols, dripping marks and a central gold crown, making it a bold statement piece for a modern interior, studio, hallway, office or creative workspace.
The painting is built around the contrast between what is visible and what remains hidden. The background is matte black, while the drawing is made with glossy black graffiti ink. Because of this, the image cannot be seen clearly from every angle. Faces, eyes, mouths, bones, crowns, abstract heads and coded symbols appear only through changing light, reflection and movement around the work.
This visual effect is connected to the idea of the future. We try to look ahead, to predict and understand what is coming, but the full picture never becomes completely clear. The painting offers only hints, outlines and fragments: a face here, a sign there, a trace of movement, a possible direction. The viewer is invited to search the surface, but never receives one final answer.
At the centre of the composition is a bright gold crown. This single gilded element creates a strong focal point and changes the atmosphere of the whole painting. It feels like a small sign of power, irony, memory or fragile confidence placed inside a field of shadows, hidden faces and uncertain signs.
This is not a traditional portrait or a pure abstract painting. The work sits between street art, graffiti painting, symbolic drawing, figurative abstraction and contemporary urban art. The dark velvet-like surface gives the painting a quiet, dramatic presence, while the gold crown adds light, tension and symbolic weight.
This one-of-a-kind mixed-media painting works well in a contemporary living room, hallway, office, studio, reading corner, gallery wall or darker modern interior. Sold unframed. Signed on the back.
Materials used:
Acrylic, glossy black alcohol-based graffiti ink, imitation gold gilding
Details:
- Mixed-media painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 60 x 70 x 2cm (unframed)
- Signed on the back
- Style: Urban and Pop
- Subject: People and portraits











