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Hi. My name's Rob Schamberger. I'm that guy who paints rasslers. And other stuff. Am I the weaker man because I understand that love must be the master plan?

The moment Mina Shirakawa signed with AEW I started planning my first-ever painting of her. She has an incredible look and energy to her that I knew would fit perfectly with my approach to art. I used a lot of pinks and ‘sparkles’ to get the feel I wanted with this. I actually flecked masking fluid onto the paper before I started painting to get that sparkle effect and then pulled them off to reveal the white of the paper beneath. It gives a fun texture to the piece that’s not too common with watercolors.

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‘Moulin de la Galette’ by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1889

Toulouse-Lautrec’s paintings tended to focus on Parisian nightlife of that era and this work in particular speaks to that. There’s a combination of style and technique that gives the figures in the foreground a stillness while the figures on the dance floor have a frenetic motion to them.

He commonly worked with washes, thinning his oil paint with turpentine to then build up layers while maintaining his sketch lines beneath them. In this closeup shot you can see how the foreground figures are more defined with those sketch lines mostly covered by thicker layers of paint while the frenzied background has only a few thin layers over them.

It’s a fascinating technique I haven’t seen much with oil paints as it’s more common in watercolor and illustration. Traditionally with oils and acrylics you want to cover up as much of the sketching as possible but Toulouse-Lautrec found a unique way to incorporate them into his work.

Last year Katy and I started making a point of getting a magnet or two from every museum we go to. We keep ‘em on the fridge, naturally. They’re fun and beautiful and are nice mementos of our times visiting each institution.

So far, we have magnets for: The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the National WWI Museum, the Kansas City Museum, the National Toy and Miniature Museum, the Chicago Institute of Art, the St Louis Art Museum, the Beyond Amazing: Spider-Man exhibition and the Oz Museum.

The look pretty fabulous on the refrigerator, too.

Love you more,
Rob