Jon Measures blog

Sold 4 miniatures for Tiny Treasures show opening this Saturday at Cactus Gallery

2011-12-08T03:00:00.001-08:00

Digital Sketch for Flight Path

2011-12-04T23:04:00.000-08:00

New work

2011-12-04T00:06:00.000-08:00

I still Love LA

2011-05-19T00:27:00.000-07:00

This piece is a small collage that I made recently that I may include in the I Still Love LA show to be held at Monkey House Toys in Silver Lake. The show opens on June 18th.

Sold 2 paintings at The Cactus Gallery in Eagle Rock recently

2011-05-19T00:18:00.000-07:00

New Art

2011-04-24T20:43:00.000-07:00

It's high time I started adding my work to this blog again.

More cuts of meat

2010-11-26T17:12:00.000-08:00

I have always loved diagrams and especially these diagrams that show meat cuts. I feel like I may have a way to incorporate them into some new artwork soon.

traditional pig cuts of meat

2010-11-26T17:09:00.000-08:00

iPad has inspired me

2010-11-26T17:00:00.000-08:00

I was struggling with art for a little while there. However, the purchase of a shiny new iPad has altered my perception immeasurably. I have new ideas and with that I felt it was time to start utilizing this digital sketchbook again. I'll start with this random image of a scalextric track that seems like something I might find useful in art making.

Ideas for continuation of Identity series

2010-03-29T20:25:00.000-07:00

Note to self about ideas floating around in my head

Identity Series

1. Food I eat - "Your Are What You Eat" - based on facebook images.
2. Labels such as English, artist, runner, liberal - "Don't label Me" - Typographic vector digital piece.

Urban Landscapes

Black and white print outs collage and painted then add color as painted washes and abstract painterly marks.

Head study 1

2010-02-28T21:37:00.001-08:00

Surreal class demo

2010-02-25T11:28:00.000-08:00

This is somethiing I made as a demo in my DMAD 181 class at OCC.

Gateway

2010-02-07T22:28:00.000-08:00

Palm Tree

2010-02-07T15:34:00.000-08:00

Virgin

2010-02-06T22:31:00.001-08:00

Window

2010-02-06T12:20:00.001-08:00

Infinity

2010-02-06T10:51:00.000-08:00

Heaven ?

2010-02-06T01:23:00.001-08:00

The Gold Line

2010-02-06T00:27:00.000-08:00

la Pared

2010-02-05T22:19:00.000-08:00

Angel

2010-02-05T19:37:00.001-08:00

Ad for March

2010-02-03T09:30:00.000-08:00

Boyle Heights, part of I Love LA Series.

2010-01-31T02:58:00.000-08:00

LAX 1

2010-01-29T21:32:00.001-08:00

Silver Lake

2010-01-29T20:41:00.001-08:00

Beverly Center

2010-01-29T08:32:00.000-08:00

This is my Town

2010-01-28T22:53:00.001-08:00

Another sketch of LA from above.

2010-01-28T22:26:00.000-08:00

Experimenting with Arial views, not sure quite where this is going yet.

2010-01-28T17:24:00.001-08:00

Sketch for Found Faces piece

2010-01-27T00:50:00.000-08:00

Man In The Sky

2010-01-25T01:47:00.000-08:00

Nature © Jon Measures 2010

Waiting © Jon Measures 2010

Direction © Jon Measures 2010

Two new pieces based on some photographs I took from the top level of the parking structure at Cal State Long Beach. I like the god-like view. Like much of my digital work these pieces explore the space between photography and painting. Looking down on our environment is a some what unfamiliar perspective and gives a chance to assess out man-made landscape with a fresh eye. The manipulation of the image is an echo of the manipulation of our environment it's man's need to give order and to create structure.

New Ad for February 10

2010-01-22T14:47:00.000-08:00

I Love LA - new series

2010-01-22T00:54:00.000-08:00

New Art "Downtown and Stuff"

2009-12-21T04:42:00.001-08:00

Gray and Pieces

2009-12-19T20:20:00.000-08:00

whisper #1

50/50 Show

2009-12-15T07:12:00.000-08:00

Show tonight in Little Tokyo. All art is $50!!! Bargains. See flyer for details.

Cafemode Presents 50 artists for $50.

Gray + Grey

2009-11-07T21:39:00.001-08:00

Designs for the Gray + Grey site and then a couple of new pieces.

Whispers Series by Gray + Grey

2009-11-02T00:53:00.000-08:00

Earthworks 05 | presented by Cafe Mode

2009-09-28T22:29:00.001-07:00

A very rare opportunity to see and purchase a Gray + Grey piece.

http://www.cafemode.com/earthworks.html

Here's a link to the cafemode/Earthworks site.

comment on digital image manipulation and narcissism

2009-09-23T00:17:00.000-07:00

Chris Gilmour makes me jealous.

2009-08-23T00:46:00.000-07:00

Amazing technique. I love this type of realism. Check out his site.
http://www.chrisgilmour.com/en.opere.html

A case of, I wish I'd thought of this.

2009-08-22T14:06:00.001-07:00

http://www.bertsimons.nl/zenphoto/paperworks/

Bert Simons is Awesome.

Two new pieces for toy show

2009-08-19T00:17:00.001-07:00

My latest ad

2009-08-19T00:12:00.000-07:00

New ad for August

2009-07-22T09:20:00.001-07:00

This show is about toys. I have to make my toy in England.

Another Repeat

2009-07-19T04:05:00.000-07:00

Digital Repeats

2009-07-19T03:50:00.000-07:00

New LA in her Own Words - Sunny Land

2009-07-19T02:50:00.000-07:00

LA in Her Own Words

2009-07-16T22:19:00.000-07:00

Nine Lives Finished pieces

2009-07-10T10:16:00.000-07:00

This are the finished versions of "Nine Lives, One out of Nine #1" "Nine Lives, One out of Nine #2" for a show called Nine Lives. They are both digital collages using 9 different peoples faces. Digital print on Caslon archival paper and drawing. $175 each or $300 for both.

Nine Lives Flyer

2009-07-10T09:17:00.001-07:00

Nine Lives show pieces, unfinished.

2009-07-10T00:23:00.001-07:00

Catch

2009-07-07T18:07:00.000-07:00

Two new pieces for the 4th Earthworks show presented by Cafemode at Shojin in Little Tokyo.

ed giardina

2009-06-03T00:58:00.001-07:00

Another one.

More Facebook portraits

2009-06-02T02:36:00.001-07:00

Holly Armishaw

Hasan Ahmed

Ed Fella

Katie Rowley

Michael Mandiberg

more Facebook portraits

2009-05-30T00:39:00.001-07:00

Here are a couple of new Facebook portraits. I would like to find a good LA, SF, NY or London Gallery interested in a show. These would be fine art quality digital prints, limited edition possibly one, this can be negotiated. I would also be interested in getting in published as a book.

David C. Williams

Uri Kelman

Facebook friends.

2009-05-27T07:46:00.000-07:00

This is a new series I have started. I asked friends on Facebook to send me an image. I would like to do one for as many Facebook friends as possible.

Justin Galiger

Clint Erickson

Jack Semple

Mary Pastrana

Stef Thelwell

Famous People

2009-05-25T02:54:00.001-07:00

These are a series of images of famous people. They are chosen for icon value. They are individuals that I think have become symbolic figures. All are living breathing people but that identity is masked by the public persona, so inflated is it.

New art

2009-05-03T21:15:00.000-07:00

This piece is for the show IM LA on May 16th 2009. A show on immigration I made this collage/painting based on the idea of aspiration. The piece is called "Aspiration (Migration is a Physical Manifestation of Dreams and Desire)".

LA #3

2009-04-27T00:09:00.000-07:00

Another Los Angeles piece.

LA #2

2009-04-26T17:48:00.001-07:00

OK, time for more art

Night Sounds

2009-04-02T03:13:00.000-07:00

At night it comes clear the sounds are free to be heard in the day they jostle, it's like a stampede of sounds, each one blends with the herd never to be heard, a blur of sound. It's late go to bed Jon.

Night Sounds

2009-04-02T02:04:00.000-07:00

New sound sculpture. I'm not crazy about it but I made some effort.

strange and useless structures.

2009-04-01T03:27:00.000-07:00

It's strange where inspiration comes from, how we stumble on the stuff we need as long as our eyes are open and our minds not distracted at the time. I was helping Ingrid edit an essay she had written for her art homework. The essay was about a model she had made for a useless building. The building was a clear sphere in a tree. Anyway, I began look at strange, amazing tree hows and I rediscovered the concept of follies.

This old blog

2009-03-30T10:45:00.000-07:00

Wow, I have neglected this blog so horribly I feel like I should start a fresh one, it seems all old and faded. Well for now I will upload my latest ledger ad.

I have a STORE!!

2008-02-24T22:48:00.000-08:00

I finally got around to setting up a store where I can sell my work. I put a link on my blog for the store, check it out feel free to buy as much art as you like.

Last weekend I did a live painting event organized by the Hive at the Mountain Bar in China town. That was kind of an interesting experience.

Today I dropped I spent several hours painting and dropped a piece of at The Hive Gallery for the March show.

Black Maria sold the rest of the animals that I had and so I took some new work over to them. They are doing great at selling my work. I also finally met Jennifer who bought the 9 faces that Black Maria had in the Skip the Mall show and we negotiated a commission, I'm waiting for photographs to get started on that.

Suddenly I seem to be selling work. I suppose it makes sense that I never sold work when I never showed, now I show I do sell, go figure.

Here are a couple of new pieces that I finished this weekend. These are the 2 that are now showing at the Hive.

Videos

2008-01-24T17:17:00.000-08:00

I am a little obsessed with making videos for youtube at the moment. Analog art has taken a bit of a back seat for the time being but I will try to get back to it soon. Check out my videos, there is a link called videos along with the other links in the sidebar.

Better Cells

2008-01-11T22:51:00.000-08:00

This is one of the two paintings I sold at TruXtop in October of 2007. The other piece I do not have a picture of unfortunately.

Long Distance Communication.

2008-01-11T21:28:00.000-08:00

Long Distance Communication. Another page in my sketchbook.

Talking Radio Heads

2008-01-11T03:36:00.000-08:00

I wasn't going to do any art or blog this evening because I have so much work to do but I ended up pulling off a nice page in my sketchbook so I had to grab a flick of it and bang it up. Here's the page, collage and sharpie with stickers. images from Wired magazine faces are Talking Heads and Radio Head front men. Pop Surrealist?

Color Coded

2008-01-09T23:59:00.000-08:00

This piece is a painting/sculpture made using paper mache and acrylics. This piece was lost by a gallery that will remain nameless to protect the not-so-innocent. If I ever get it back you can buy it and give it a safe well ventilated home for just $75

Vinyls

2008-01-09T23:50:00.001-08:00

One of a kind vinyls for a show in Dec at Under The Table in Atwater Village, LA. The eyeball guy called "The Magician" sold "Amoeboy" is still available at "Under the table". "Under the Table" is a store next to and run by the owners of Black Maria Gallery.

3 microscopic series

2008-01-09T23:42:00.000-08:00

Here are 3 of the small paintings for Concrete Walls from the microscopic series.

$95 each or all 3 for $250

The Worm

2008-01-09T23:32:00.000-08:00

This piece was done for the December Group show at The Hive Gallery and is called "The Worm Pokes His Head out and Takes a Look Around". This piece is still available for $125

Eau Natural

2008-01-09T23:04:00.000-08:00

One more posting again another piece from Dec. "Eau Natural". This is for sale for $125.

I sold several pieces of art last month. This month got off to a good start with the painting I had at the Hive selling.

More recent art

2008-01-09T22:57:00.000-08:00

The Three Amoebas. These are also on show at TruXtop. This show ends soon. You can buy these for $95 each or $250 for the set.

House in the Country

2008-01-09T21:56:00.000-08:00

Recent painting, Dec 07. It is currently on show at TruXtop in Silver Lake.

You can buy this painting for the bargain price of $125

New Sketchbook page

2008-01-09T21:42:00.000-08:00

Determined to keep making a piece of art everyday or at least almost everyday, I did some work in my sketch book. This piece is influenced by my new work environment, I just started working in a loft space 7 stories up in the heart of downtown LA, I have a great view of Main Street and all the fantastic old buildings, cars, people, grime and faded signs that make your heart skip a beat.

This page is a little rushed but it is part of process I am under going to redefine the way I construct images based on an integration of digital and analog process and thought process.

Starting Over

2008-01-07T23:55:00.000-08:00

It's a new year and I need a new start. I came across the Painting a Day guys site again recently. I had had this idea sometime ago and I started doing it but I got out of the habit. We'll say I was bus, after all that's partly true, but also lack of discipline set in and I got out of the routine. Now it's been a year since I posted.

OK, I am going to start making a piece of art a day again. I think ideally these should all be finish objects analog in nature but I am going to kick off with a hybrid digital drawing, this drawing is a design for a screen print the black and red elements would be printed the background is a fake in Photoshop of the type of texture I would like to print on to.

Oh WOW!! I just noticed that blogger now supports video, that is too cool and this probably shows how long it's been since I last posted.

Anyway, here is my art of the day "Love Blossom". I realize this is very girly and corny but I am attracted to this image. It's also very out of touch with my intentions for work right now. The thing that I would like to tackle is a series of works again focusing on the east side of Los Angeles. It's a city that is hard to take in because it's so vast and spread out not to mention the diverse nature of the various areas. I like this line quality however but I would like to mix the draw line with photographic surfaces and texture. Well. for now I need to work so here's my first post in a while and I'll try and keep up a near piece a day pace.

art now

2006-12-28T18:38:00.000-08:00

How to start again? paper? drawing, sculpture, computer? ideas, what? I am currently lost a drift in time shifting to a new point where one is to start and it always scares me.

Am I doing a new series or continuing something left undone. Shapes, colors, building, photos, drawing, paint, mixed media, one key piece begins the journey, the life like preparing for a marathon, I need to do a show. I need to make some art.

First I need to run.

Art Show

2006-10-09T00:38:00.000-07:00

I have an art show coming up in about a month. I know roughly what I need to do and I should start working toward that now. I am not writing much currently as I am doing quite a bit of freelance and I have my head down studying new software and techniques both for teaching and for a new direction I want to go in with my work, I am doing mor animation work and I am thing more web based design and art pieces. I have got a copy of Maya that will be the next big thing to tackle and I have become obsessed with stop motion. Look for some stop-motion to appear on my site soon. Never enough time.

new art ideas

2006-09-07T09:17:00.000-07:00

Still haven't been able to find time for art. I have this idea to make models of buildings based on photos I take around LA, I am not sure if they would be literal interpretations of a specific building or buidlings or if it would be a kind of construct of several parts. I see them in glass cases and with at least one I imagine it floating in the glass case with the underground visible. I see the glass cases being like old style museum cases like I remember from the British Museum, old dark polished wood, with molding, the plinth prsents a problem for me as I see it as stark white but that seems to be in conflict with the cases anyway I can solve that problem down the line.

I would also like to make some of people miniture but I think these would be best if I made them in Maya and used some kind of rapid prototyping process to print or produce the scultures. I have a clear image in my mind for these pieces. My concern is they maybe too dry or lack humour but that could be solved by the choice of subject probably.

New ART

2006-09-05T09:57:00.000-07:00

I want to make some art soon. I haven't been making art much lately just working on classes and trying to get my leg to heal. I have some freelance work to take care of first.

Indochine Vien

2006-08-23T20:40:00.000-07:00

Here is the Indochine Vien ad I just did that I had said yesterday that I would upload.

Casita del Campo

2006-08-23T03:24:00.000-07:00

This is a new ad that I just made for Silver Lake's legendary Mexican Restaurant, great bar, excellent margaitta's. The place is visually warm and friendly and I wanted to express that in the ad. The grid is inspired by the stained glass and mosiacs that abound at this great eating place.

I am working on a new web site for design work, I am probbaly going to do it in flash. II am going to keep Jon Measures.com strictly for art stuff and experimental web ideas. In the mean time I will post some ads I've been doing because I am frustrated by not having time to set up a real design site.

I did a photo shoot on Saturday on my crutches, the crutches acted somewhat like a tripod. That reminds me I need to get a new tripod. I used my own photography on this and another restaurant ad that I did for Indochine, a hip Atwater Village Vietnamese eatery that I would highly recommend. I will upload their ad later.

New ad

2006-08-23T03:09:00.000-07:00

Here is my latest ad, inspired by my running injury. I am myself on crutches after spraining my ankle training for the 2007 LA marathon.

Absent

2006-08-08T01:34:00.000-07:00

I may well be absent from this blog for some time, I am busy with other things and it is not serving the original pupose so much anymore. I may return in the near future or I may never touch it again, I am unsure about it's future right now. I still like the idea but I feel I could spend my time more wisely in other ways. I could well end up adding some examples form time to time. However, I may start a different blog with a whole new agenda.

Long Time

2006-07-30T12:44:00.000-07:00

If anyone checks my blog, I apologize for not posting. I actually had stuff to talk about but I haven't felt like blogging. One of the reasons I started the blog was to get me back into thinking about my own work and doing some art. From that stand point the blog has been reasonably successful. I have been doing some art and I have had first show in years. I will attach the add for the show that ran in the Los Felz Ledger. The show went well, there was quite a few people there and I sold a couple of pieces. I now have another show that I can plan for in November at the Cafe Metropol Gallery in downtown LA.

Girly Stuff

2006-06-13T00:58:00.000-07:00

I like the color and the contrast of the sharp and the fuzzy, I like the punk thing and the prettiness coexisting. This one is good…I think, I like this better than the last one. I need to print and draw on top. blah, blah, etc. I am trying to kick myself in the arse but I can't be arsed and besides my leg is too short.

Sweet Dreams

2006-06-07T23:58:00.000-07:00

It's been so long since I posted anything

My Muse

2006-05-23T18:26:00.000-07:00

This is another in a series of photographic pieces that I intend to print as gigclee prints and paint back into.

Plain Jane

2006-05-13T01:52:00.000-07:00

Plain Jane in the back at The Black Maria Gallery at the Last Opening "The PMS Show" This is the night Olga and I bought "The Twins" a tryptich by Plain Jane.

Ramone

2006-05-13T01:08:00.000-07:00

Ramone and Kabo, taken at the Blue Nile Cafe at the last Look Inside event.

Henry

2006-05-11T00:12:00.000-07:00

Letter to a librarian

2006-05-08T18:46:00.000-07:00

New Ad

2006-05-02T22:46:00.000-07:00

Here is my latest ad for jonmeasures.com, part of an ongoing branding project.

Wierd

2006-04-29T19:04:00.000-07:00

This image is from my blog if you click on the image titled Out of the Dog House this is what you will see instead of a larger version of that image. I was going to fix it but I thought it would be more interesting to show you this image as it is.

On to something

2006-04-29T17:29:00.000-07:00

I am not in the mood for writing again, but this series is shaping up pretty well. I have to call Epson to get the # for servicing my Epson 3000 large format printer so that I can print some digital canvases…YEAH! Bully for me.

I am going to a Look Inside show tonight in Long Beach. Look Inside is an online arts mag setup by ex-Brooks students. Jonas Lynch from Look Inside has asked me to be the featured artsit for July, that should be fun.

Go and check out www.lookinside.cc

Out of the Dog House

2006-04-28T15:04:00.000-07:00

I have nothing to say, here's a new bit of art.

Quickie

2006-04-27T13:11:00.000-07:00

OK, I gave my students a deadline project today, they had to do a four page mailer in 4 hours, filll out forms for submitting artwork, make PDF's and e-mail by the end of class.

In keeping with this deadline theme I am going to do a pice of artwork in 20 minutes, GO!

DONE!! Phew