Recent content by Johnem

Stunning! Thank you for the progress pics, this is really wonderful work.

Thank you all for taking the time to look and comment. I seem to have two styles, either loose and expressive when painting alla prima, or rather careful and somewhat… classical? Mannered? Something like that, when I plan things out and spend several sessions on a piece. I’m enjoying both, and...

Something completely different…

@Nikki thanks, hair is something I’ve struggled with and this is one of the few times that it worked out. I’m working on it…

@Nikki I couldn’t imagine a higher compliment, thank you.

Thank you all for the encouragement.

I’m only a part-time (part of a part?) working artist. I’d have starved long ago if I counted on art sales. I have been self employed for the past fifteen years though, so I can assure you it’s not just artists. Anybody self employed will quickly find that in the minds of friends and family...

Thank you, @ZenDruid @CaliAnn @Artyczar @Triduana @Terri I’m glad the intensity/emotion/haunted look works for you, it’s what I was most trying to get across with this. I don’t have the reference handy, but something about her gaze makes her seem like she’s seen hundreds of years of hardship...

Zombi 2, 9” X 12” oil on panel, from photo reference (movie still from Zombi 2, 1979). Well, it’s a grisly subject and not everybody’s cuppa I’m sure, but I like how this one turned out. C&C welcome, thanks for looking. John M.

Thank you all for the comments, very encouraging and much appreciated.

Eugenie, 9” X 12” oil on panel, from photo reference. Need a better picture of this one, the camera makes the blending of the skin tones harsher than in person. C&C welcome!

My most recent purchase was a bunch of tubes of “vintage” oil paint via two different eBay sellers, mostly Grumbacher and Shiva. Lots of my staple colors like cad reds and yellows, ultramarine, cobalt and Prussian blues, viridian, earths of various types, mars and ivory black, plus a bunch of...

Thanks to you all for the welcome! I’ll post some work soon; I’m planning to take some better digital photos of a few recent paintings this week.

Hi, born in New Jersey in 1975, drawing since I could hold a crayon, New Yorker from 1987 to 2014, moved to the country then and not going back. Eastern shore of Virginia now and quite like it. High Schools of Art and Design, some SVA classes but consider myself self taught; I took photography...