End of Summer Update

Hey Bloggers,

I've been pretty busy this summer ... and NOT just making sandwiches.

I've started a series of portrait paintings of people of not much personal significance; people I see on the street, imaginary people and the like. I've also gotten a huge illustration assignment to illustrate 12 greeting cards for WYO-Cowgirl.

I made some samples of what the product could look like. My art director and I have talked about it and they'll be changed, but this work is still worthy I believe on posting here.

I'm slowly drifting into a polished style. I don't think I'm fully there just yet, but progress is gradually being made.

I will post paintings when I get back to Providence (in a couple days, I've been home dealing with family matters).
<3,
Jack

PS-
I'll be on the cover of Watershed this fall!

Recently I had a wedding commission to make a painted family tree. The groom was Indian and the bride Italian-American, so thus explains Gandhi, Ellis Island, the elephant and the pilgrams (well, that doesn't explain the pilgrams. There's a lil' of that in her, too).

So ta da ... a month's painting. I'm happy with the result and I learned from the process. I think I am done with museum board and am going to go back to gessoboard as my surface. I am DEFINATELY continuing with the acrylic gouache with a final layer of oil.

Update

It's the end of the school year and like everyone else, I'm busy. There was a gallery over in Pawtucket a few days back, I'm trying to move out of the old apartment, I have a few freelance jobs lined up and through it all I'm finding time to paint and getting a handle of acryla gouache, paint medium of the gods.

I've limited my pallet to the following colors below and the effect is really exciting. They're sort of Santa Fe looking ... I'm trying to throw out earthy tones because I see enough of those as is (maybe I'll go back to terra verte and burnt sienna someday).

So below is a picture of the opening I had at the sight of sound and my pallot!

Happy summer guys!

Alright!

http://www.jackturnbull.com

Ready to rock and roll.
Still some kinks to work out on the links page and you have to access my resume through the biography page, but it's all there now!

Working on a new piece and adapting a more painterly style. I am using Acrlya gouche and oils and applying it to board in a manner similar to Rebecca Guay, who came to RISD a few weeks ago to do a painting demonstration. Here it is ...

PIRATES

New pirate illustration that may potentially go in Plansponsor magazine. I'm up against my classmates, who are all VERY talented, so it's a longshot this will get in, but ... let's just say if this was "Project Runway", I'd definately not be getting kicked off on tonight's episode.

OH YEAH ... I have a gallery up at Carr Haus. You should come. Pictures soon.

Star Wars

Here's the newest portfolio piece. It still has some things to be worked out, but once again I'm going with this ink/acrylic painting/mono printing photoshop collage technique. I'm thinking of replacing the princess with a princess Leia from an old Star Wars comic I found at the Rhode Island Mall (Jennie and I stopped by chance to see if we could get our photos taken with a supposed Leprecon, but as it turned out, you had to BRING a Leprecon, AKA a baby, which we lucky don't have).

I also feel that the monoprinting in it is a bit understated ... I really wanted to have it be a main part of the piece.

I'll run it by Robert tommorrow and get feedback. Night everyone.

Oh yeah, and here's some process paintings that didn't make the final cut. (Sigh)