ART Happening Artistique's event TOMORROW!

See you all tomorrow for ART Happening Artistique's 'Art Feast' group show event! FB info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/673149682812139/

Image: the stack of all the drawings it took to create the final drawing of my latest painting, 'Gift of Folly'. Drawing on animation paper allows me to keep correcting the drawing. There is no magic, just hard work. You can see the final painting in the show tomorrow!

I also have many drawings for sale on my online store here: http://jonodoironstudio.storenvy.com/collections/30026-original-drawings 

Gift of Folly - last preview

Here is a shot of the new painting 'Gift of Folly' (still in progress). Hope to see you this Saturday at ART Happening Artistique's one day event!

'Gift of Folly' - underpainting

Here is the underpainting of 'Gift of Folly'. See the final painting next week at ART Happening Artistique's event May 30th.

Gift of Folly - first look

My next painting ‬ is about the mythology around the use of anvils in cartoons. The painting is called 'Gift of Folly'. The final painting will be revealed at ART Happening Artistique's event happening May 30th in Montreal. (fb event info: https://www.facebook.com/events/673149682812139/)

ART Happening Artistique - group show May 30th

My next group show is coming up soon in Montreal on Saturday May 30th. 'Art Feast' will be an incredible one day event organized by ART Happening Artistique.  I am working on a new painting that will be exhibited in the show.

You can find out more about the event here.

featured interview in The Main

Thanks very much to The Main writer Kelli Sturkenboom and photographer, Charlotte Guirestante-Ghomeshi, for the featured interview! You can read it here.

Bride of Boopenstein

Here is the whole painting I created for Slushbox Gallery's NERDCORE III group show that opened on Saturday. It was a fun challenge to create a painting with just black and white. It is a tribute to two of my favorite things to paint: cartoons and monsters. The cartoons are all from the era before color, some of the characters are rather obscure. The frame is custom as well

'Bride of Boopenstein'
acrylic on masonite, custom frame
10"x12" (image) 18"x20" (including frame)

 You can see all the works from the show here.

THAT LAUGH! - reference sculptures

Meant to share this with you all and then (I admit) I totally forgot about it, even after customizing a box for it and everything. While I was making the painting 'THAT LAUGH!', I had made small head sculptures of Daffy and Porky to draw them from tricky angles. With Daffy, I was trying to figure out what his bill would look like in an oblique angle (not often seen in cartoons). With Porky, I cheated a little bit - Porky doesn't actually have much of a neck, but in the painting he does, even though you don't see it.