Michael's artwork/paintings/drawings

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This is the first time I've ever seen this one.



Marina Ivanova
@MarinaaIvanova
Her Majesty, painted by MJ in 1997. This portrait of Queen Elizabeth II was inspired by the official portrait at her coronation in 1953.

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Michael's sketches of his costumes to one of his designers Dennis Tompkins.

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Mourad Mesellaty
#StoryOfTheDay...The Jackson-Strong Alliance was a creative partnership between Michael Joseph Jackson and Brett-Livingstone Strong. Their aim was to establish the world's most dynamic arts enterprise, promoting the power of imagination, not just for creativity sake, but for the sake of important world causes. Michael and Brett focused their creative expression in support of the arts, international charities and protecting the environment of our planet. Herein is a brief history of the Jackson-Strong Alliance as well as Michael Jackson's little known private life as a fine artist

#MichaelJackson signing the Constitution, 1787...Initially Michael focused his attention on the early U.S. Presidents he admired. Brett ordered the custom-made paper for Michael and for the White House, with embossing of the Presidential Seal in gold foil on many large archival sheets. When Chief Justice Burger passed away, Michael’s hope to have his presidential portraits exhibited in the White House for the bicentennial celebration also ended. Michael eventually completed many U.S. presidential portraits including masterworks of President Abraham Lincoln and President Washington, two of his favorite subjects. Also in 1987, President Ronald Reagan and California Governor, George Deukmejian, honored celebrities Bob Hope, Jimmy Stewart, Muhammad Ali and Brett, for his patriotic monumental sculptures, with the American Spirit of Freedom Award. Michael celebrated the event with them all and later created portraits of the award recipients to honor them further.

During 1988 and 1989 Michael created many of his first originals, including abstracts, landscapes and sculpture designs, using wax pencils and oil pastels, of red and blue shades. Several of these were created on the custom-made paper that Brett had produced in France in the early 80s for Michael’s artworks and the White House’s commemoration of the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Presidency. Some of the first photos and videos of Michael creating on this special paper was taken with Brett and Mr. Bill Bray, who was the executive director of MJJ Productions and Michael’s Office of Special Services and Security for many years, along with other MJJ employees seen in some of the photos. Also shown in the photos is Michael holding one of his special feather-capped wax pencils he often used for presentation photos and videos to create the art along with his cotton work gloves. In this 1987 photo he is shown creating and signing his original art on the custom made Presidential archival paper which included the special JSA security mark. Soon thereafter Michael started creating his first large paper and sculpture works in their Culver City studio.

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MJJJusticeProject #1Billion4MJ
@MJJJusticePrjct
“The Girl is Mine,” Michael’s duet with Paul McCartney from #Thriller , reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 on January 8, 1983. .. This is Michael’s drawing that accompanied the liner notes in the LP of Thriller."

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January 26, 1990. #MichaelJackson attended the presentation of his portrait ′′ The book ′′ by the artist Brett-Livingstone Strong at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
In 1990 Michael and Brett started creating two fine art collections. One Michael titled his “Magical Works” – comprising of landscapes, seascapes, sculpture designs and his MJJ logo. Several of these were created in their Pacific Palisades studio where Michael was always enthusiastic about his creations. He often worked late into the night and the early mornings masterfully perfecting each of his cherished works of art, and when finished, he kept the works in his own bedroom there. Brett’s collection was titled “The Artist’s Formula” based on the portraits of some of the world’s most prolific artists. For “The Artist’s Formula” collection, Michael purchased antique books that were published when those historic artists were alive. One portrait was of Michelangelo for which Michael purchased a book published in the 1500s in Florence where Michelangelo lived at that time. From this book Brett had taken an unprinted 500-year-old page upon which he created his portrait of Michelangelo.
Michael then shaded the portrait in purple. Over the three following years Brett completed many portraits which Bill Bray framed for Michael and had displayed in Michael’s home. This collection was to be published as fine art prints signed by both Michael and Brett. Brett also worked to publish a book titled “The Artist’s Formula” with the significant endorsement of many major international museums that he acquired in the early 80s. This book, though near completion in the 90s, still awaits a time to be finally published to showcase both Michael and Brett’s respective and collaborated JSA art along with a selection of works by the historic artists that inspired them. Michael and Brett decided to initially complete twenty-two original contemporary works of their art on the JSA embossed archival paper. Eventually, over the years, approximately 260 separate custom paper sheets were created on by Michael. He used both sides of about three dozen of the works because the custom-made blank sheets were limited. A few works were also left by Michael unfinished and unsigned. 100 of these sheets, representing 120 original works, that were selected by Michael for exhibition in museums as his “Treasures Collection”, have survived over the years in the JSA studio, along with other originals that Michael divided into his “Private and Personal Collections”. Several have been sold that were not included in Michael’s collections, while others have either been given away as gifts by Michael, misplaced, or destroyed by Michael when he was not pleased with them. Michael’s original JSA fine art collections include the “Historic Works”, which consists of his compositions of the Statue of David, the Getty Bronze and several others such as his tribute to the historic first flights of the Wright Brothers, which he hoped would be popular amongst the aviation industry near their hangar studio at the Santa Monica airport. Michael often left voice messages for Brett about his interest in the art projects, particularly the Michelangelo inspired works. Michael also wrote and left recorded quotes about Michelangelo and others for Brett to help inspire them both as they created, which are still in the studio to this day.
Other collections include ‘The Electric Past and Future Happy Chairs, Doors and Gates’. The sketches of these artworks were conceived by Michael as he documented them in his book of creations and lyrics where he wrote and sketched in the 80s and 90s, and from which Brett helped transcribe Michael’s designs to assist Michael in creating his original works of art. This book of Michael’s ideas was called “The Book” by Michael and Brett, and was later portrayed in the official Michael Jackson portrait titled “The Book”. This title was also embossed on the custom-made paper especially for Michael’s original art. In this painting the actual book is depicted at Neverland Ranch on Michael’s lap. The leather-bound book has one of Michael’s magic keys on its cover. The key also become a subject of Michael’s original works in 1991. During this year Brett was working with Michael on his Dangerous Album cover design and organizing the exhibition of the JSA originals at their Santa Monica airport hangar studios. On the various MJJ concert tours Brett encouraged Michael to create many other original works of art, including watercolor paintings while on the Dangerous Tour. Brett set up Michael’s London painting studio in which Michael completed several works in 1992 and gave them to his Royal and VIP guests who visited with Michael before his concert performances.

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Julien's Auctions

SOLD for $11,520. A 1985 blue pencil illustration on paper, titled Me. Signed and dated by Michael Jackson to the lower right.
Sold in our "Icons & Idols: Rock 'N' Roll" auction taking place at the Hard Rock Cafe NYC and online at www.JuliensLive.com

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Michael Jackson’s love for sketching started at a young age. One of his oldest known sketches is of comedian + filmmaker Charlie Chaplin. On the HIStory album, Michael covered "Smile", a song Chaplin wrote for his movie "Modern Times" https://youtube.com/watch?v=tQTHBlf-Tvw