Bombstract coming in June

933pm

New painting. Its small. 14" X 10". The title is "933pm". Working smaller I had to pay a lot more attention to detail to acquire the level of closure I can be happy with. It was challenging, but I have ideas for more similar works.

Hooked

New painting. The beginnings of this painting came from sketching on the iPad. Then I eventually abandoned the sketch and just let the paint do its thing. Its pretty good at it.

Here is the sketch.

The Latest

Thrills


Wiz

These are my latest two works. There is another that is almost finished. Wiz is a sibling to Pinko. I will display them together. Thrills is an experiment. I worked from a sketch. I usually don't do that. I prefer to have no plan and just let the composition come out on its own. Nonetheless it was succesful and I'm very happy with the out come of these two paintings.

Sketches

I've been doing sketches for paintings on my Ipad using the Procreate App. It is pretty powerful as a drawing tool. With layers and brushes. Here are a couple.

new works

Pinko

Iced

I'm working on stuff for the show in June. Trying to really grab some inspiration from graffiti. These are really fun. The colors really jump off of the canvas. I took a look at em with 3d glasses earlier. Woah. Enjoy!

Come On Up to the House

Sorry it took me so long to post this one up. This is a very special painting commissioned by the Staton's. Taylor Staton and I began work on this painting about a week before he passed from this world. I had the task on my hands of completing a collaboration alone. Acting as two separate people, and carefully listening to Taylor, I used the notes he left and the color palettes we had chosen from his mother's living room. It was difficult, yet one of the most therapeutic things I have ever done. I delivered the painting to the Staton's a few weeks ago, and it looks amazing in their living room. The decor and the painting match so well that he painting seems to spit the living room right out of the wall's mouth. Intentional and deliberate sofa painting may be a genre to explore.
I miss you a lot Taylor. I hope you like my end product. I'm sure the chroma is too high in the blue.
Love everyone,
Jonathan Ryan