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Bonbon - 9 x 12 - Oil on Canvas |
Jason Weeks art blog - Oil paintings & Pencil drawings - Portraits - Seascapes & Waves
Friday, August 2, 2013
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Portraits of the older generation
Thoughts of an old man
While I'm putting them on the page, I wonder what that person is like. What they've done, what they've seen, what they've endured.
What they did during the hard times and the good times.
As I develop the features, the realization comes that the story of their lives is reflected in their faces, in their eyes.
All of it makes a portrait to remember them by, a portrait of who they are.
14 x 17 Graphite on Bristol
Helping Hands Times of Need
14 x 17 Graphite on Bristol 14 x 17 Graphite on Bristol
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Tears of a king
One of my long time students wanted to paint a special project. So I said, "Pick anything you like!" A week had passed, and I wondered if he forgot about it. Then he presented my with a page torn out of a magazine. I began reading it. And he took it out of my hand and turned it over. A lion. We had not painted animals in class. And then it dawned on me that for the exception of a dog being held in a portrait, I had not painted animals -- at all. So I stalled a bit. My student reminded me that I did say, "anything." So we began, and this is the result. I wish I knew the original photographer to proper credit, it's a spectacular lion.
18"x24" Oil on canvas
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
The Wave Collection Series II

The ocean has always attracted me. There is a mystique about it: a calming, reassuring effect it has on me. There's also the fickle side: its enormous power and beauty in its movement. The longer people look at the waves, the more they see something. Perhaps it is the colors, maybe it is the sculptural or textural effects that attract. Others sense masculine and feminine traits. And, for some, the longer they look, the more they feel the movement of the wave... of the ocean itself. That's what I've strived to capture in this collection.
Take a look for yourself and tell me what you feel.
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