Pantone Color Trends 2012 Paintings

I love colour. Yes, I spelled color "colour" because I'm Canadian. It's what they taught me in school right along with "pay your crazy taxes, tell on bullies, and drink light beer". It's not my fault.
So back to what I was saying.
What the entire design world uses for colour is a system of colour predictions that are worked out many years ahead of time, so that every industry can safely develop products that will go together with what everyone else is doing. The housepaint companies will match what the couch cushion makers do, and so on. Pantone is at the forefront of the colour industry, tying all of the industrial world together in colour. This is fascinating to me.

The colours for 2012 are beautiful. Some brilliant and talented people have spent untold hours developing these colours, their relationships and how they'll work and shift over time, so they're not like a Ke$ha song. Please, someone make her go away. I've decided to not only embrace these colours, but make an example of them.
The idea is simple bold designs using the defining colours of 2012. Colours like Tangerine Tango, Stardust, Driftwood, French Roast, and Olympian Blue. These are quick paintings I've designed using the quaint Windows painting app. Like this:



And then gone and painted it for real, like this:




They're a hoot. And there's a bunch of them on. This is the first, now available in my eBay store.

Here are my latest paintings, on sale on eBay

Painting just kicks butt

Sometimes when I'm working through a painting, I get this feeling of excitement. Today, working on this painting here, I got that rush. A big smile broke out on my face as the design started to take shape at this moment:

I'm showing this photo as a snapshot of my process. I have no idea at this point, how this painting is going to turn out. What I think is that I'm going to keep the abundance of white negative space, keep it minimal and raw, playing off the rule of thirds in the design. I like the wash effects, but won't get too carried away in that direction. I may choose to move towards transparencies. Who knows.

Check out my work on eBay. If you see this blog after February 6th 2012, check out my website, eBay or my Etsy store to see the finished product.

Here's some new abstract paintings available on eBay or from my website, Liam Jones Fine Art:

I am doing everything I can to paint full time. I'm a one-man show, so there's a lot to do. I'm so passionate about my work, and I think that comes through.

Liam

Original Modern Art Abstract Painting by Liam Jones

Here's my latest painting, available locally, on www.liamjonesfineart.com and on eBay

I'm ba-ack!

If you're new to my work, welcome!

It's been over a year since I pretty much stopped marketing my work online. Life is like that sometimes. A parent passes away, and everything gets put on hold. Things change, and time just keeps on moving forward.

So this is my new website. Seriously, I can't stand this computer business. It's gives me grey hairs and a short temper, but if you're an art lover and you've stumbled on my stuff through one of the many ways I've put "Liam Jones Fine Art" out there online, then it was worth it!

There's a bunch of new stuff coming down the pipe. One exciting new development is a partnership with Jacek Karlowski, who is one heavy musician and a great painter here in the Toronto area. We've been friends for years, and finally there is the opportunity to team up and pool our resources. We call our project "Good Guy Productions". Well, we haven't fully settled on the name, but it kinda gets the idea across.

Anyhoo, welcome! It's great to be back. I hope to hear from you. Here's to music and art!