Miles “Mac” MacGregor began acrylic painting and doing graffiti in the mid ’90s. His main focus is the life-like rendering of human faces and figures. He has since developed his own unique style of rendering – utilizing repeating contour lines that look like ripples and evocative of Turing patterns and indigenous North American art.
No Doubt is an American rock band from Anaheim, California. Formed in 1986, the band achieved mainstream commercial success following the release of Tragic Kingdom in 1995. Push and Shove, their sixth studio album, is set to be released this month. EL MAC expertly lent his hand in the creation of the album cover.
The artist did four wood panel acyrlic painting of each band member from photo references. Each panel makes up the entire cover.
According to Mac, he locked himself in his studio for about six weeks to work on the wood panel portraits. The challenge in his technique is getting the lines to work both up close as harmonious abstract shapes and from a distance, forming realistic images.
From the final result, it is safe to say that he was successful in overcoming that challenge.