This series started out (without intention) in December 2017 with the K2SO painting, a tribute to Thomas Blackshear and also inspired by Star Wars Rogue One.
Years later, I misheard a sentence at a convention as a "Mandalorian playing the Mandoline" and imagined how funny that would be to picture!
Since the idea stuck, in early 2020 I experimented with A.l., the results were funny but lacking.
So I decided to paint them instead, with one eye on the inspiration, and another eye back on the classical themed T. Blackshear inspiration that was the motivation for the K2SO piece in the beginning - and these are the results.

It became clear that this was going to be a series.
Most pieces took me around 25-35+ hours.

This is rather a work in progress and when I see something that I can do better based on what I learned, I will do so.
Most artists would write it off as a funny meme concept, but I see a project that can evolve over time by adding a new character to the *band* or by revisiting a particular piece. Remastering helps me to push and get better, to apply what I have learned over the course of the last 20+ years.

This series is important to me, because it gives me the freedom to do what I want to do because it is obviously satire, but by doing so, it also shows my personal humor and ability to bring ideas to canvas and add value to it by improving the series over time.