Category: My Art

Another surreal painting that are so fun to make. Lots of earth tones with spots of color. I was being creative and weird. Not much else to say. Let your mind wonder. 🙂

My remake of “Love one another” by Georges Rouault. I added color and stuff. Love the composition and the expression of the figures and the title!

I can see a lot of Matisse influence and with color it looks a little like Cezanne’s “bathers”. It was a joy to paint.

Finished! As you can see I added more texture and made the line quality a little sharper. Hoping to do some more landscapes in this style. You learn or discover something new every time you  paint. It’s pretty addicting. 🙂

This is the first step in my painting of a picture I took in Monterey, California. Of course Monterey is gorgeous. I wanted to give it a very soft impasto feel. A little like Cy Twombly’s “Wilder Shores of Love”.

 

This is based on a picture I took from a homeless outreach I went to. Most of the homeless people there were very unique and expressive in how they dressed. Also most were very friendly and just liked to have someone listen to their stories, advise, etc.  I admire the volunteers who not only gave them food but took the time to get to know them and pray with them.

 

“A Seed Planted”  Acrylic on Canvas (don’t worry the skull isn’t real… bought one of the plastic ones from the pre med department in the book store at American River College :). I’ll leave you to sort out the symbolism. It’s an idea I had from reading a verse in 1 Corinthians 15:42. I don’t feel pressured into making every painting I do symbolic of the hope I have. But what I am thinking about usually comes out in my paintings some how. Mainly I wanted to send the message of a life after death.

Also I wanted to do a painting in earth tones. I appreciate all the brilliant colors in paintings these days but their is also beauty in the old school earth tones used in all the old paintings. They were used because these paints were very cheap to make… all you needed was dirt. Color pigments were of course harder to get.

Something beautiful can be made from dirt!

Thanks to all the people who encourage me to keep painting. This is for you. 🙂

It’s totally required that you do one of these. Thankfully you can’t see the 20 layers under it. ha ha

It is a really good exercise though. I tried to paint the real me and not the face I make when I’m looking in the mirror and straining to make myself look as “handsome” as possible in my own eyes.

Another painting from a bunch of pictures I took of Lake Tahoe. There was a storm coming in. It was amazing… but a little scary in an awesome way. 🙂

I worked to capture the light and it’s reflection and give the texture of the water.

Something very magical and beautiful about Lake Tahoe. I wish I could take a little vacation there and paint from straight observation….. maybe someday. 🙂

I used a lot of burnt sienna on this one with some prussian blue, cool yellow green (lemon yellow and prussian blue) and various other earth tones. I think the warm burnt sienna pops out nicely. I’m working on giving my paintings lots of texture these days. I think that makes a more interesting and luscious painting.

When I first began to paint I was just looking to give things volume and create a good composition. Now that I feel more comfortable with that I’m moving on to texture which is really fun. Usually I get it by going back over something and running my brush strokes the opposite direction. I noticed Van Gogh and Paul Cezanne did that a lot. And of course I love their paintings. – Jason Campbell