I recently finished a series of northern animal paintings, all for Christmas presents.
Each are about 12″x16″ oil on board. People always say that it’s hard to make homemade gifts, and it is, I struggle alot with painting myself. But with persistance and a simple idea they are extraordinary and often more memorable.
The kind folks at Risen Magazine came across my work, and were nice enough to interview me about my work a few months ago for their November / December Issue. You can check out a PDF of the interview and spread below.
LINK: Jon Keegan Interview in Risen Magazine (PDF 1.2mb)
You can see more of my work at jonkeegan.com.
Nuclear power seems to be spreading. This painting was hard to complete. I’ll probably destroy it for my own well being.
This is a painting from an ongoing suburbia series. This is an earlier one. Lately I’ve been interested in entertainment, like trampolines, playgrounds or swimming pools.
This painting is from a suburbia series. They’re bushes with snow on a “front yard” next to the driveway of a house in Pittsburgh. The house is up there, but not in the picture. To me, these manicured shrubs are a wonderful example of how each person has their own way of bringing a little nature into their lives.
I had a nice art-filled weekend, despite the torrential rains. I logged some serious time welded to my drafting table just playing around with some different materials that I don’t often work with in my normal course of business. Really felt a nice loose freedom with a super-fat graphite pencil on vellum, which produced the above image, among many, many others…
Also, I saw some amazing art…
Last weekend my three older brothers, Stephen, Phil, James and I gathered at a cabin near the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania (I know, you’ve never heard of the place). It’s a beautiful, mountainous region where we fished, hiked and drew pictures. Before grilling up some tasty shish-ka-bobs we sat on the porch and each brother spent 4 minutes working on a drawing. After 4 minutes we’d pass around the art until everyone had worked on it. Its’s always a fun and fascinating experience doing art lodges and you can see some of our results above.
This is an oil painting inspired from an advertisement. I was inspired by the complexity of chrome reflections and the humor in the sounds of those horns.
With the help of Photoshop, I’ve been transforming some photos and doing paintings of them. This one is 24″x 36″.
