After taking my Modern Art History class at American River College by Ken Magri, I was really challenged to spend more time with my paintings. Some artists would spend a month on a painting. Although Van Gogh boasted he did a painting in a day and of course it look GORGEOUS, I don’t want to use that as an excuse to not spend more time with mine. So this is the start of spending more time with a painting. It may be making it realistic or just experimenting like de Kooning. Not that I’m at ashamed of the rest of my work. Each painting is part of the journey so I love them all.
Category: My Art
“Night Owls” (Sculpture Painting)
Instead of doing a separate sculpture I decided to carve into a piece of wood. It gives it the look of thick impasto with out using a ton of paint. Also from far away it is hard to tell what is carved and what is a 3D effect from the paint. They say paintings are “lies” in a way (tricking you into believing it is a window into another world) … so this is only a half “lie”. A little white lie. 🙂
Painting Sculpture “A Finger in Reality”
The Decision
My first sculpture/painting “The Decision”. It’s on display at this show!
“Dreams: Real and Surreal Visions of Pleasure, Pain, Joy, and Dread” a group exhibition which runs from October 17th through November 9th, 2011. Opening Reception Tuesday October 18th at noon. Photos coming soon. Also, look for the “End of the World” calendar created by Mick Sheldon’s students which will be on sale in the gallery shortly.
Tears
This painting is dedicated to the victims of Sex Trafficking happening in the US and around the world. Be aware and help out how you can. I’ll give a link and I am sure there are other organizations out there.
I consider it important to bring awareness to issues in some of my paintings. William Blake depicted the horrible mistreatment of slaves in some of his paintings. So it’s not an original idea but one I want to help carry on.
The Fall
A surreal landscape using a few objects in my room and the old imagination. I think the red-violet background gives it and interesting mystical atmosphere.
Don’t strain yourself to much on the “deeper meaning”. I like what a professor of mine told us in my graphic design class “Lead people down a path but don’t make everything obvious”. I enjoy songs that I don’t know the full meaning of… so why not a painting. The title will get you started. 🙂
Ocean (abstract)
I had the abstract bug again. Something really cool about just being able to paint whatever you want. No limitations. However I did name it “Ocean” because toward the end I started to think about an article I read about the discovery of new sea creatures. It also mentioned that submarines can only go down so far so we don’t know what other creatures could be down there. So I thought “Hey maybe a creature like this cute little chubby guy could be down there” …. at least I think it’s cute. 🙂
Have an amazing weekend!
-Jason
Cogs and Threads
A surreal still life I guess you could call it. A collage of things I found around the house and laid out on my desk. I started out with the idea of traveling. Ended up kind of thinking about destiny.
It may be common knowledge but the secret ingredients to making things metalic is.
-White
-Black
-Raw Umber
There I saved you a lot of money on buying metallic paint. 🙂
Also I began to play around with alignment in this one. As humans we like things that are grouped and aligned (e.g. reading text)…. food for thought!
Portrait of Crystal
My friend commissioned me to do a portrait of her. I just bought a tube of Yellow Ochre which worked out perfect for her hair and high lights on her face. I had to hype up the colors a little to give it some life. As my teacher Mick Sheldon said I’m a “Natural born expressionist”. Red and red-orange against the blue-green back ground gives it excitement and Crystal has that in her personality for sure!
Meeting of the Magestic
I always come back to surreal landscapes sooner or later. So fun to go off of almost 100% imagination. I’m tired of starting with a horizon line so I decided to paint what you would see above it in this mysterious world.
As far as the idea. I was thinking of very important people meeting in a simple natural place that was much more “bullet proof” then any building that could be built by man. This place isn’t accessible by anything motorized just a simple humble air balloon.
Yeah… and thought it would be a cool painting. ha ha