Isaac's paintings

Isaac's paintings
Several of Isaac's paintings are assembled to form a prophetic narrative.
First mentioned:	Genesis
Current status:	Most of Isaac's prophetic paintings are at Isaac's apartment.

Isaac Mendez's precognitive abilities take the form of paintings he completes while high on heroin. His paintings are considered prophecies, and many have been fulfilled. Along with the 9th Wonders! graphic novels, Isaac has produced the following paintings:

See Also

For more of Isaac's work, see 9th Wonders!.

For a comparison of Isaac's work with the realization of his prophecies, see Prophecy.

For detailed discussions of particular paintings, see:

• Exploding Man
• Hiro and the Dinosaur
• Homecoming Series
• The missing painting

Gallery

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  At the Deveaux Gallery, Isaac is confronted by a woman he has painted being hit by a bus.
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  Simone prevents Isaac from destroying this painting of the eclipse.
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  A hand holds a glass of boiling water in front of a red background. Originally intended as a depiction of the engineer, this now depicts Ted Sprague. Isaac paints over this canvas with black paint.
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  An unfinished painting shows a girl possibly holding yellow pom-poms or a yellow coat. (See the original painting.)
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  Simone stands in silhouette with her portfolio in Isaac's doorway, exactly as she does when she later arrives.
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  This depiction of a burning bus is confirmed to be a suicide bombing in Israel.
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  The depiction of a fiery train wreck in Odessa, TX proves prophetic. Claire Bennet saves a man from this incident and the story is seen by Isaac on the news.
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  This portrait depicts a man jumping off a building and seemingly flying. This is the painting that encourages Peter Petrelli to do the same thing.
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  The depiction of a large explosion and the resulting mushroom cloud in Midtown Manhattan is painted directly on the concrete floor of Isaac's apartment.
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  The Symbol (in the future timeline)
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  The Symbol (in the future timeline)
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  The Symbol (in the future timeline)
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  A girl walks away from a boy in a school hall. A previous scene indicates these are Claire Bennet and her classmate Zach, respectively.
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  Isaac keeps a notebook of unfinished sketches.
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  Isaac sketches women.
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  A couple kisses under a red umbrella. A previous scene indicates that the couple is Peter Petrelli and Simone.
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  Isaac sketched a portrait for Charles Deveaux's seventieth birthday.
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  Isaac paints Uluru the Invincible, a giant rock monster. This painting would become the cover of 9th Wonders!, Issue #13.
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  Claire climbs the stone bleachers at Union Wells High, with a shadowy figure looming over her.
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  Hiro and Ando stand under a blood-soaked homecoming banner.
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  Peter is surrounded by flying locker doors. He is later attacked by Sylar in this fashion.
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  Claire looks frightened.
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  Isaac didn't finish this painting of a menacing figure.
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  The same painting, completed by Peter, shows the figure standing over Jackie's brainless corpse with red paint dripping from the canvas. The body was once thought to be Claire's, referencing the message, "Save the Cheerleader, Save the World".
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  Several paintings assemble to form a comic book page with a panel missing.
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  A painting shows Mohinder Suresh scattering his father's ashes.
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  This painting at first seems to depict Niki Sanders with a large sum of money.
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  Isaac rubs a layer off the same painting to reveal the Symbol, indicating it is a painting of Jessica, not Niki.
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  A car explodes. This is later revealed to be a car destroyed by Ted as he escapes from FBI custody.
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  A painting of a busy redheaded waitress is later revealed to be Charlie Andrews.
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  A digital image of a painting shows Peter Petrelli, dead at Union Wells High School. Nathan purchased the original from Mr. Linderman, but then destroyed it so Peter would not see it.
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  At Primatech Paper Co., Isaac is coerced into painting this depiction of an exploding figure with raised arms (much to the chagrin of Mr. Bennet). Later in a vision, Peter comes to believe that he is the cause of the explosion.
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  A sketch depicts Charlie Andrews greeting Hiro Nakamura and Ando Masahashi, and then Hiro and Charlie conversing.
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  Isaac drew Charlie and Hiro conversing, as Ando waits.
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  A closeup of the same sketch shows the two deep in conversation at the Burnt Toast Diner in Midland, TX.
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  For the first time while not under the influence of heroin, Isaac paints Hiro Nakamura confronting a dinosaur while wielding a sword. Upon seeing this painting, Hiro worries about stepping on a bug.
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  New York, post-explosion, is seen from Charles Deveaux's rooftop.
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  A woman's purse seems to fly through the air.
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  A street corner appears empty.
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  Isaac and Simone embrace on Charles Deveaux's rooftop.
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  An unseen object rushes towards a parked taxi cab.
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  Peter Petrelli, half-invisible, recovers next to the smashed cab.

Trivia

• Isaac's paintings are produced for the show by comic book artist Tim Sale. Because he is colorblind, Tim illustrates his images with black ink, sometimes diluted for greytones. The drawings are then digitally scanned at 11" x 17", colorized by Dave Stewart, and then manipulated to make them appear as if they were painted. The finished product is then blown up and printed on canvas. The exception to this process is the painting of the explosion on the studio's floor, where the final "painting" was printed in pieces on moveable rubber mats.
• In a forum post, Tim Sale said that oftentimes, a lot of his art "sits around for weeks waiting to be used." At other times, the whole process — from assignment to execution to color to scanning to printing and stretching the canvas to filming — is less than a week (though the production staff tries to avoid a rushed pace).
• In an interview, Santiago Cabrera said that he suggested Francisco Goya's period of "dark paintings" as an influence on Isaac's paintings. Tim Sale said that Goya's influence can most prominently be seen in the painting of Mohinder.
• In a forum post, Tim Sale said he gave the production staff his personal sketchbook, and thought they would return it to him as soon as they gleaned what they needed. He was surprised when they made larger copies of the sketches and pasted them into a new sketchbook to be used as a prop.
• Tim Sale said that the sketch of Peter and Simone kissing was made using charcoal pencil, some wash, and colored ink. In an interview, Tim Sale said that he is not great at likenesses, so when it came time to create the sketch, he told producer Jeph Loeb, "Maybe I'll Eisner it." It was determined that rather than perfect likenesses, the important thing to get across was the mood, the red umbrella, and to see that it is two people being intimate with each other. Incidentally, Jeph's daughter, Audrey, asked to get the sketch, so Tim gave it to her as a gift.
• In an interview, Tim Sale noted that the image of Claire being chased is "very existential/German-expressionistic and it looks like Nosferatu coming to get her."
• Tim Sale said he created the sketch of Charles Deveaux in graphite. Likewise, the sketches of Hiro, Ando, and Charlie at the Burnt Toast Diner are done in pencil.

Fan Theories

Please refer to Theory:Isaac's paintings for fan-created theories and other speculation.

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