Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Feb 9, 2012, 7:50 pm
Here's the final (I think) image of Roller.  I have fought with this image and its still not correct.  I can't get the focus or colour correct on it, no matter how hard I try under artificial light.  I will try for daylight, but in the meantime here it is.  I may give a glaze of transparen...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Feb 8, 2012, 8:25 pm
I finished an oil painting last Friday of an apple, a challenge that was thrown out by one of the members of my local art group. I wanted to play around with other mediums for it and started the next version in pastel.  Pastel is not in my comfort zone, but I enjoy using it.  I started...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Feb 7, 2012, 8:27 pm
I should be painting water, but instead I'm caught up in marbles.  Why?  I have no idea, except that they're so appealing and so....round! I'm trying to create some pieces for a May exhibition of small works, and this may become one of them.  There's still work to be done on the marbl...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Feb 5, 2012, 3:45 pm
Well two hearts in fact. I've been turning a mistake into something different.  I printed a couple of photos the other day, but accidentally put the paper in the machine the wrong way.  As a result, it printed on the wrong side of the glossy paper.  This leaves a blurred mass of colou...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Feb 3, 2012, 8:32 pm
Available for purchase from my website A friend in our local art group threw out a little challenge to paint one of her photos this month. A beautifully red apple. The colour in it is irresistable. I started out with a sedate little painting last night then looked at tonight and it was...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Feb 2, 2012, 8:00 pm
The sea is on my doorstep and I can take it for granted, being so close. I see it every day, but more as a marker for weather than the body of every changing water that it is. As I drive past the ocean, I always look towards it and note the colour of the water reflecting the sky, the movemen...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Feb 1, 2012, 8:53 pm
This is a gyotaku print of yellowtail flounder before it has been mounted to another sheet of paper. Mounting gyotaku is rather like stretching watercolour paper but with rice or wheat paste adhering the 'sandwich' of the two sheets. Most gyotaku prints are mounted as the paper the fi...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Jan 31, 2012, 4:49 am
... too early, to fit in some painting. The challenges of juggling a full time ... as well as an art career all comes down to planning and discipline ... it badly enough, you'll create the time. So this morning gave ... had taken some reference images at the weekend using good light and g...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Jan 28, 2012, 11:22 am
Available for purchase from my website. I've been looking more closely at cut surfaces of fruit and vegetables and find them quite interesting. Heirloom tomatoes in particular are full of colour and are quite beautiful. I've been setting up still life pieces today trying to find just the...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Jan 27, 2012, 4:50 am
The Yearly Planner Bringing back the art of living in daily life by Jeanette Jobson | Make Your Own Book My life revolves around my daily planner.  If I didn't write things down, my life would be in chaos.  Meetings, appointments, art exhibitions, supply orders, birthdays, etc., etc. are all...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Jan 26, 2012, 9:28 pm
I think its time to create another ocean wave.  I'm trying to decide to go small, medium, large or extra large.  Decisions, decisions.  While I decide, I put a little paint on canvas in the form of a study of how I want the wave to look, more or less.  Yes, I do love my studies.  Sometime...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Jan 24, 2012, 8:17 pm
Insomnia has its drawbacks but also its benefits.  Up at 4am this morning, I gravitated to the studio and once some coffee did its work, I decided to do some painting. This is the grisaille start of a small boat.  The palette is mostly Caribbean Blue, Payne's Grey and white and in oils...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Jan 23, 2012, 7:57 pm
 In the Pink I've made a number of pieces available on my website with some pretty hefty price discounts.  I need some space in the studio (and a new one eventually) and would love to see these go to good homes.  The sale will be up until February 14th, so enough time to find a little...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Nov 1, 2011, 8:51 pm
 Eifuku chimneys - in progress10 x 10   oil Have you noticed the bloom fading from the blogosphere over the last year?  Is it me or is there a lack of postings, a lack of interaction, an overall malaise that's taking over? I know there is a lot more competition with blogs besides jus...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Oct 31, 2011, 5:32 am
 Unmasked 8" x 10" Watercolour/gouache Last month Chris Beck asked if I would like to take part in a Halloween Challenge along with some other artists.  I was thrilled to take part, as I always look forward to the challenges that Chris and Pablo Villicana Lara come up with seasonally, so I ...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Oct 29, 2011, 8:06 pm
Sea jelly 15" x 30"Mixed media I think I'm calling this jellyfish done. Its a departure from my normal style of painting and I have had such fun doing it.  The act of simply slapping on paint and paste without too much cerebral involvement is very freeing and quite satisfying.  I like ...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Oct 28, 2011, 8:51 pm
Or should it be the stick and the carrot?  Either way, the idiom remains the same. I seem to have more stick than carrot lately, and am taking most of it in stride.  Occasionally one comes across a mean spirited person with a chip on their shoulder.  I have learned that the chip is th...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Oct 27, 2011, 7:26 pm
Yes, I'm still on my quest to conquer the elusive jellyfish, or at least a decent painting of one. I started with a loose study in watercolour a few days and have now advanced onto a mixed media piece.  This is a 15" x 30" canvas panel that I gessoed then put scrunched up tissue over, with mo...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Oct 25, 2011, 9:43 pm
 Toronto to Vancouver I've spent the last week travelling and working, which gives me little time for drawing or painting.  However, while trapped on long flights, on on layovers in airports, it does give me time to sketch.  I've found it fairly easy to sketch in these situations as people ...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Oct 24, 2011, 4:11 pm
I worked on a jellyfish image previously in oil paints and still am not happy with it and its at the 'trash it' point.  I have some ideas about reviving it but perhaps through multimedia, not just oils.  Jellyfish speak light, colour and texture to me.  The smooth bell and long rippli...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Oct 17, 2011, 10:24 pm
Its time to choose a design for the 2011 Christmas card!   Which of these two images do you like best?  Click 'Like' on my Facebook page to comment on your favourite and to enter the draw to win an 8 x 10 reproduction of the one that is chosen. You have until October 23rd to make your choic...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Oct 16, 2011, 8:21 pm
 Rorschach VIIIOil, stretched canvas    8" x 16" I worked off and on today on a painting that I started yesterday of rocks and the sea.   At 8pm I wiped the painting.  It looked insipid and boring.  Very, very boring. So left with a smeared, stained canvas, I played with a palet...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Oct 15, 2011, 7:56 pm
A fine day and a walk along a favourite and pretty much deserted beach last weekend led me to some on site sketching and the start of a study back in the studio.  I want to go much larger and likely will if time allows me to do so.   This is done with watercolour in a kraft paper sketchbook...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Oct 11, 2011, 8:53 pm
 On a cold, wintry day last January I looked out the window at work just as the sun was setting and the sky was full of gold and pink and blue.  I grabbed a quick shot of it with my cell phone camera, but it isn't til now that I've had a chance to try to put it down onto canvas. Clouds...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Oct 10, 2011, 11:03 am
  I spent most of the morning being frustrated with the printmaking process, but believe the 'aha' moment has arrived and most of it is to do with paper choices. After yesterday's etching process, today was the printing.  I do not have a printing press so need to use a baren/brayer to achie...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Oct 9, 2011, 8:35 pm
Well, they're not quite ready yet, but I'm heading there. I was reading The Printmaking Bible and learning more about the process of etching, drypoint in particular which does not involve acid baths.  Perhaps that will come at a later date.   Since the concept of the idea the other da...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Oct 7, 2011, 9:45 pm
I am slowly working my way through unfinished pieces.  My goal is to have them all complete before the end of the year.  What is it about my inability to complete paintings sometimes?  Easily distracted perhaps.  I always see something else that I want to get down on paper or canvas and th...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Oct 4, 2011, 9:07 pm
My painting time has been limited this week, as I prepare for the exhibition which opens on Thursday.  This evening after work, all the pieces were hung, ready for the opening on October 6th.  If you're in the area, I'd love to meet you there.  Great art, nibbles and drinks will be on hand ...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Oct 2, 2011, 8:41 am
Ideas for paintings come to me at odd times.  Driving to or from work, in the shower, or when I wake in the middle of the night and can't sleep.  In my internal struggles in art there are rewards and setbacks.  Paintings that didn't go the way I want, paintings that sell, rejection and acce...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Sep 29, 2011, 9:29 pm
I love flying when its dark or the sun is just setting.  Its as if you're suspended between two worlds, with a perfect sky above and hints of life seen below the clouds. This little painting was from memory, flying over a headland, getting ready to land.  Little breaks in the cloud all...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Sep 28, 2011, 9:13 pm
I keep trying with this jellyfish and am very slowly making progress with glazing and layers of colour.  The head of the jellyfish still isn't the right shape, but its moving into the place I want it.  Its in oils on gallery canvas and looks so much different in real life.  I know I always ...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Sep 27, 2011, 9:54 pm
  A pale self-portrait looked out of the mirror with the serious eyes of all self-portraits.  Vladimir Nabokov A few more dabs of paint while I experiment with a looser style and a simply laying down of colour as opposed to blending paint.  Pointillism to a degree, but larger.  There is no perf...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Sep 26, 2011, 8:38 pm
I've toyed with the concept of virtual exhibitions for a few months and it is available is several forms of software at varying levels of sophistication and pricing. Its a step up from static websites or blogs, going from two dimension to three dimension views. VirtualGallery.com is a meeting ...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Sep 25, 2011, 7:11 pm
Its been another really busy weekend and only tonight that I've had much time to concentrate on any painting. Today the exhibit at Masonic Temple was taken down and now another one is looming which opens on October 6th. While I deal with the flurry of things that must occur to make...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Sep 22, 2011, 7:17 pm
 Woods Road 6 x 12 oils More and more I find myself dissatisfied with what I am producing in art.  Yes, the pieces are technically sound, but really quite boring. I create snapshots of the world around me on canvas or paper but inside I want more. They gyotaku moved me into different direc...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Sep 21, 2011, 8:58 pm
On the long, traffic ridden drive home today I listened to a podcast as I often do.  This was a Conversation with Dan McCaw by Leslie Saeta and Dreama Tolle Perry on the Artists Helping Artists Blogtalk radio site.  I really have to recommend that you take some time and listen to this conver...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Sep 18, 2011, 1:42 pm
I break rules.  Like the one that says you're not allowed to paint on the walls. In my studio, over time, various little rodents are appearing in various mediums on the wall next to my work table.  This wall has been classed as the 'Rodent Wall', though other species may appear eventua...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Sep 17, 2011, 7:44 pm
Ever the frugal artist, I was at the end of my palette after finishing up a few oil paintings, and used what colours were  left to do a quick study of my youngest daughter when she was 3 or 4 years old. I'd put out a tub of blackberries to thaw on the kitchen counter and found young mad...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Sep 16, 2011, 9:32 pm
 18" x 24"oil I've spent some time finishing up details on a few paintings and Vertigo is one of them.  This is the final view of a Northern Gannet soaring over the ocean.  They dive like rockets, straight as an arrow, into the water to catch fish and its quite amazing to see them. Th...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Sep 12, 2011, 8:47 pm
Anyone who follows my blog knows that I don't paint flowers.  I try now and then, but lose interest in them very rapidly.  Why?  I have no idea. Painting animals, fish, water, rocks...I tackle them all happily.  But present me with a flower and my mind instantly thinks 'yuck'.  I gu...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Sep 11, 2011, 7:17 pm
 8 x 10oils Here is my fuzzy friend again, complete this time. It a bit unnerving studying insects very closely, but fascinating at the same time.  The construction of insects, like humans, is quite remarkable and never truly appreciated until an intimate study is completed. I've...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Sep 9, 2011, 8:47 pm
I am toying with which paintings I will put into the next exhibition and what needs to be framed - or created.  Waiting for layers to dry on one piece, I played around with this bumblebee balancing on a flowerhead.  I've not done many insects close up and, truth be told, I do have a fear of ...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Sep 8, 2011, 9:16 pm
  Flatrock14 x 21watercolour There really aren't enough hours in my day to fit in everything lately, but I'm trying.  As a result some things have gone by the wayside, such as the blog.  But I haven't forgotten you!  I'm just behind the scenes working furiously and getting ready for the next exh...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Sep 4, 2011, 8:00 pm
 Classic Martini8 x 8 on masonite panelacrylic I think I deserve a martini after trying to photograph this predominantly black painting.  It really does look much better in person, despite my best efforts at adjusting in my ancient PS program. Although I did use Payne's Grey for the backgrou...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Sep 3, 2011, 8:57 pm
Martinis.  You either love them or hate them.  There are endless stories of who created them and endless recipes for different varieties.  This is a classic martini - gin, vermouth, ice, shaken or stirred.  The garnish can be a lemon or lime twist, olive or cherry. I've started, tras...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Sep 1, 2011, 9:26 pm
As with all things done quickly, errors occur and this was no exception.  However, a crop or two sometimes saves the day. This is a gyotaku piece of ocean perch printed with Caligo white ink on blue silk kozo paper.  I was pressing the paper to eliminate a few wrinkles and a little smu...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Aug 30, 2011, 8:23 pm
 Zucchini blossomwax batik on unryu paper5.5" x 9.5" After a horrible summer, the weather's finally cooperating a bit and plants are springing to life at the unexpected sunshine and heat.  The zucchinis are taking full advantage and galloping ahead, setting endless blooms and fruit, well veg...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Aug 28, 2011, 8:03 pm
  Koi16" x 20" Unryu paper, wax batik/watercolour After my first experiment with wax batik on paper, I knew I wanted to do more.  This weekend I remembered that I had a design purchased ages ago from Kathie George who produces beautiful batik paintings.  I dug it out and figured it would be...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Aug 26, 2011, 8:40 pm
With the exception of one or two dogs,  every dog I've had in my lifetime has come from a shelter or been rescued from a situation that would likely have had a bad outcome.  The last dog I had, Biscuit, was being waved by kids in front of traffic as a small pup.  Too young to be taken from ...
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Jeanette J. posted an article on Illustrated Life - Aug 25, 2011, 9:26 pm
Black bears are native to Newfoundland, but not seen much on the Avalon, seeming to like points west, however they are around. Luckily a bear hasn't visited the farm yet.  Some people seem to consider wild bears, especially the cubs, almost like teddy bears and try feeding them.  Bears becom...
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