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 WHAT KIND OF ART DO I DO? Right now I'm doing some freelance work in window murals mostly for local shops. I draw, paint, sculpt, and work sometimes in digital media. I've freelanced from menus and bookmarks to letterhead and newsletters. I'm working on starting up a business to sell my own fine art work as well as jury into professional art orgainizations into the next year. Thanks to some of the wonderful supporters of my work (The Ringleb's) I'm soon about to have a studio art space to work in to pursue my fine art creations. My thanks again to them.
WHO IS ALAN D. JONES? I've drawn since I could hold a crayon. I graduated from Plymouth University in 2000 with my Minor in Drawing. I call myself an Existential Artist. I do think art should have a pretty element to it, but I want my art to also have meaning. I want it to makes you think about something, re-evaluate its level of importance, or remember old times. My influences... Chuck Jones, Charles Shultz, Norman Rockwell, Walt Disney, and Da Vinci. I do have a respect for form (read Abstract art isn't my thing) yet also a love for line (read pure Realism isn't either). I love classic cartooning, pulp and propaganda art from the 20-40's, and some 80-90's superhero style art. WHY DO I DO IT? I think I don't have a lot of choice in the matter of being an artist actually. My mother was an artist and I've been blessed. I try to describe it as the way people have to breathe, I just have to create. It's who I am. I stay up very late at night pouring myself into creative ideas to the point I don't sleep well much of the time as I think about new art. When I wake up, it's not long before my mind starts dwelling on more art. I'm constantly reasearching, learning, and just studying all aspects of art in many forms and media. I can't imagine how many sketch books I own, I must have hundreds of pens, hundreds of paints. Actually it's Inconvenient, expensive, and many times incredibally difficult to make any money at all. The outside the box thinking of a creative mind is really at times actually a huge hinderance when someone expects you to be just simply inside the box thinking to get something standard done, while you are trying to either reinvent the wheel or make that wheel just look way cooler. Logically it makes little sense at all to torment yourself being an artist. If I should have to die tommorow though, I would consider my life well spent. I wouldn't choose another path. Well, at times an easier road, but not a different path. I have very few regrets. I have had great adventures in life and think when I to leave this world I will have left it a better place. My art brings joy, makes people think, and some of the more serious work I hope draws them closer to God. |
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