Animals · 2025
Oscar.
- Medium
- Fine art paper print
- Size
- 40 × 40 cm — 80 × 80 cm
- Year
- 2025
Oscar: small, loud, in charge. If you sit in his chair he will remember for the rest of his natural life.
Prints from
from £30
Fine art paper
The story
How this piece came to be.
Oscar came out of Mike's ongoing series of animals — hand-drawn characters that each get their own name, back-story and (usually) a slightly ridiculous personality. Every piece is finished and checked by Mike himself before it leaves the studio.
In the studio
The process.
Each work moves through four slow stages — from first study to the final surface.
01 — Sketch
Every piece begins with a rough pencil sketch on the studio floor — hunting for the character's attitude before any colour goes down.
02 — Colour
Bold flat colour is blocked in — pinks, mustard yellows, electric blues. Nothing tasteful is allowed in this stage.
03 — Line
The signature quirky linework is inked back over the top by hand — every whisker, feather and beard hair.
04 — Print
Each print is checked and rolled by Mike in-house before shipping worldwide.
Take Oscar home — shipped worldwide.