Ten years ago, I painted Michael Jackson.  Now, here we are 2026.  I recently went to see the biopic “Michael” in a movie theater.  Jafaar Jackson, Michael Jackson’s nephew played MJ in the film.  And let me tell you — I was stunned.  This is probably the best biopic of any artist I have ever seen.  Jafaar’s abilities in his portrayal was simply phenomenal.

Needless to say, I was motivated.  I have been working away on my TmagikNation project pretty steadily and thought, ‘you know, I haven’t painted in a few months’ — so without any preparation, I started to paint.  I had no idea what I was going to paint.  But as I begin to, the movie ‘Michael’ popped into my head and well,  this is where I landed — a brand new version of my own Michael Jackson.  I went through several versions before I landed on this one.  

For those of you who would like to see my painting process, I have included a ‘time-lapse’ of this particular painting.  I paint in Procreate — which is NOT an AI tool — I simply paint.  Some find that interesting and I also like to look at it later to remind myself of how I went about this painting.  I’ve posted the YouTube link below.

Enjoy!

Terry Kuder Jr.

aka ‘Tmagik’