Kevin Jones Art Portfolio

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Kevin Jones Art Portfolio
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Table of Contents

• Title
  Medium
  Dimensions
• A Taste of Fruit
  Oil Paint
  14x18 in
• Galloping Mustang Pen
  Ink 8 ½
  x 11 in
• Gulls by the Cape Pen
  Ink 8 ½
  x 11 in
• Stretched
  Oil Pastel
  15x35 in
• A Sour Bite
  Papier-mâché
  6x12 in
• Go Pack
  Monoprint
  5x6 in
• Serious Shoes
  Pencil Sketch
  17x11 in
• All About
  Color Pencil
  12x11 in
• Randolph Covered Bridge Oil
  Paint
  14x18 in

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Artist Statement When I sit down to begin a new
project, I try to imagine how it will turn out
and why I am doing it. I will often look back at
my art and say Its not bad or It could be
better. But sometimes I finish that one piece
that doesnt seem as if it can get any better
reminding me why I keep doing art. The joy of
seeing my art being admired by others is a
feeling that is hard to top. When I have to make
decisions while I am working, I try to imagine
the way each choice would look when I finished
it. But other times I just have to go with gut
feeling or what has worked in the past. I rarely
go out on a limb and try to do new crazy things.
I try to keep my style the same for the most
part. My current project is a project that will
push me to the very limits of my painting skills.
I will begin on a mural down the athletic hall
of MCHS commemorating MC Baseball and Grant
Ringenberg. It will be about 5x8 feet and
require great amounts of detail, but I am
expecting great results from this project because
of my passion for what I am painting for.

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A Taste of Fruit
This was an oil painting done for a commission
for my mom.
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Galloping MustangThis picture was created
originally to compete for the Middle Creek High
School 2005-2006 Student Directory cover. The
piece was eventually selected. I have always
considered pointillism and stippling to be my
best medium along with oil paints.
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Gulls by the CapeThis was a piece that was also
done in pointillism around the same time as
Galloping Mustang. I enjoyed this piece but
the grass in the lower right corner was more
difficult than I intended it to be, but it still
turned out nice.
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StretchedThis was done with pastels after a
photo of myself was printed out and had a grid
drawn on it with 1x1 inch squares. Then the
final work paper had a grid drawn on it with
squares of 2x5 inches. This ended up stretching
the picture vertically at a 25 ratio which gave
it a look I became very fond of once it was
completed.
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A Sour Bite!! This was a mask mad to represent an
African tribal mask. It is made from
papier-mâché with a coat of acrylic paint and
permanent marker for the fine details. I enjoyed
doing this mask because of the face the mask
appears to me making.
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Go Pack!!This was a monoprint done last year
during Art II. I really enjoyed it because I
love the way the ink that you use behaves. It
seems to go exactly where you want it to go and
not where you dont want it. I just got lucky
and had it turn out the way I wanted it. It
ended up having a nice monoprint style at the
end.
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Serious ShoesThis drawing was done with pencil
during the Fall semester of the 05-06 school year
in Art II. It was designed to be a shoe add for
a company of a shoe that I got to choose. At
this time pencil sketches had been my favorite
medium but soon turned to painting after I
discovered oil paints.
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All AboutThis was piece done in color pencil
after a collage was created from a different
collection of pictures. I then gridded the
original and copied the photos realistically onto
a new piece of paper.
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Randolph Covered Bridge This was a oil paint
landscape of the Randolph County Covered Bridge.
This bridge has recently been destroyed because
of a flood so I decided it would be nice to paint
it to keep a memory of it.
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SkyscraperThis is an oil painting done during
Honors Art IV. It is my favorite piece of art I
have ever done.
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Middle Creek Baseball This is a mural done down
the athletic hall of MCHS. It is designed for MC
Baseball as a whole and to remember Grant
Ringenberg. The mural is not quite complete but
should be finished a week or two into the Summer
after school is over.