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Star Wars IS Forever

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This is a large 36 x 18 inch oil painting featurung 54 Star Wars characters from both Trilogies set up with the light sabers framing the different trilogies. Jack and I painted this in less than a month which was lots of late nights. Used as an official Star Wars Celebration Japan limited edition print of just 250 copies for the show in the summer 2008 and only for sale in Japan where we were invited as Lucasfilm artists to appear in the artist's alley.

Later, George Lucas bought the original painting (ahem, brag... cough!) What an honor and a high that is hard to come down from. Now in the Lucasfilm art collection in California although not sure if it's at Skywalker Ranch or the Lucasfilm Campus. Jack and I would love to visit and see it hanging there someday.

I think George also changed the title of the painting too. I named it Star Wars forever! And when I got an email back the title was now "Star Wars IS forever.
Image size
1200x2308px 1.02 MB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Shutter Speed
1/501 second
Aperture
F/2.7
Focal Length
6 mm
Date Taken
May 30, 2008, 5:05:03 PM
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I like how Anakin is on top with his pointing his lightsaber downward and Vader is on the bottom, pointing his saber upward, creating a divider between the sequels and prequels, very clever. It also helps signify that Anakin and Vader are the same person and how important he was to the series.