The Parade Hits

Paintings

Oct 13

THE PARADE HITS

The star of “The Parade Hits” is the epitome of calm, cool, and collected. She leans against her classic car with a single knee raised in a fashionable full-length dress, crossing her arms and smirking nonchalantly, unbothered by the cop car hurtling toward her.

Impasto is used here to highlight her afro and dress folds and creases. Mengle mixes acrylics and flashe on palette to leave visible blended brushstrokes, using the underlying gray gesso to modulate the final saturation and value of paint applied with varying thinness. Her hoop earring is made from a touch of iridescent copper to draw the eye and create an effect that can’t be replicated digitally.

Updated in October 2025.

The Parade Hits
Advay Mengle (b. 1989)
2025
oil stick, acrylic, and flashe on linen
24 × 24″ (~61 × 61 cm)

https://advaymengle.art/catalog/id/AM-215

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Artist:
Advay Mengle (b. 1989)

Details:
oil stick, acrylic, and flashe vinyl on linen canvas stretched on wood stretcher

Type:
Painting

Exhibitions:

The Essential Figure 2025: 16th Annual Fine Art Show. Bothwell Arts Center, Livermore, CA (March 21–23, 2025). Organized by Livermore Art Association. Group show.

Primary Media:
oil stick, acrylic, flashe

Additional Media:
acrylic gesso, brush

Support Materials:
linen, canvas, linen canvas stretched on wood stretcher, wood stretcher mount, canvas stretched

Date:
2025

Dimensions HxW in:
24x24

Subject Matter/Type:

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Marks:

By artist, signed recto lower-right in white: [AM monogram] // ADVAY MENGLE

Catalog ID:
AM-215

Selected Associated Works:

AM-216: Study 70, Advay Mengle (b. 1989), 2025, digital reproduction of acrylic gesso on linen, 24 × 24″ (~61 × 61 cm), from the series Ephemera, earlier state of The Parade Hits, WIP of AM-215
AM-217: Study 71, Advay Mengle (b. 1989), 2025, digital reproduction of flashe on linen, 24 × 24″ (~61 × 61 cm), from the series Ephemera, earlier state of The Parade Hits, WIP of AM-215
AM-219: Study 74, Advay Mengle (b. 1989), 2025, digital reproduction of flashe and acrylic on linen, 24 × 24″ (~61 × 61 cm), from the series Ephemera, earlier state of The Parade Hits, WIP of AM-215
AM-220: Study 73, Advay Mengle (b. 1989), 2025, digital reproduction of flashe on linen, 24 × 24″ (~61 × 61 cm), from the series Ephemera, earlier state of The Parade Hits, WIP of AM-215
AM-768: Study 223, Advay Mengle (b. 1989), 2025, digital reproduction of acrylic and flashe on linen, 24 × 24″ (~61 × 61 cm), from the series Ephemera, earlier state of The Parade Hits, WIP of AM-215