Frieze - Acrylic Painting on Canvas

Frieze, acrylic on canvas. Late 2018. 

This cute canvas is about 6"x6", and fits perfectly into small spaces. I love the vibrant stark black contrast, don't you? Sometimes playing with color is fun, sometimes playing with sharp contrasts and heavy lines is fun.

I love it so much that I might make similar ones, like a series. OMG, I'm a bit excited to do that! I might do it on paper though, and experiment with how much detail I could get into such a tiny painting.

All of my paintings are for sale, unless otherwise noted. Message me through Gmail or Etsy about it! Etsy.com/shop/jtphillpsmnr<3

-JTPMNR

Wings - Oil on Canvas, Abstract, beginning of the series

Untitled, 8 x 5.5", ink and colored pencil on paper.

Justin (MNR) Phillips

This is the image that started my current series of abstract linework!
It was a 'doodle' in my sketchbook that happened to look great enough for me to put some color on. This is why you keep your sketchbook pictures! This was created a few years ago, and inspired dozens of paintings and drawings!

I'm always putting together new ideas to see how far I can take this series of paintings and drawings.

My painting, Wings, came as a result of this drawing and was the first of this series.

Wings, 16x20", oil on canvas 

Justin (MNR) Phillips

At first, I used this drawing as a direct guide for how to paint this painting, then I diverged from it and only used some of the design elements from the drawing. I have trouble creating the same exact piece over and over again! D; In the end, I just 'let the brush guide me'. I essentially make up each abstract piece spontaneously, finding a rhythm and harmony in each mark on the page, and then creating other marks that make sense.


-Justin Phillips/MNR

Abstract Landscape Village Drawing

This abstract/figurative landscape was created earlier this year. It is 11"x14", and drawn with india ink. Made by me, Justin (MNR) Phillips, 2016.

Like most of my ink drawings nowadays, I didn't plan this one.
Prints and merchandise of this piece are available on my Society6 page, here: https://society6.com/product/abstract-ink-village_print

This was rather a fun creation, I hope to make a series of this. In creating this, I was considering a book called 'Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions' by Edwin A Abbot. The gist of it is there are shape people who live on a 2 dimensional plane. The reader learns the culture and lifestyle of these 2D people, and basically how their villages are constructed. To us, the villages would look something like an architectural floor layout plan. Anyone in the '3rd' dimension would be able to see within the houses and within the bodies of the shape people.

Early video games, often called 2D sidescrollers, take on this principle, but a different variation of it. The "north-south" direction is where gravity acts upon everything, and most objects are solid, and have to either be destroyed or jumped over for a player character to progress.

Think: Super Mario Maker, Spelunky, early Rayman, and early Castlevania, if you are a gamer.

I look forward to playing with this design in the future!


-JTP/MNR

Livestreaming: Working on character concept art

Come join me, I am livestreaming for at least half an hour here:
https://t.co/Pg8jQV3MhO

Working on character concept art. Right now.


jtp/mnr

Fruity Loops Artwork, Oil Pastel

I created this a few weeks ago, thought I would share it with y'all folks!

18 x 24, 70 lb drawing paper, mungyo oil pastels.
It is now framed, considering what to do with it. ;D

Here it is on instagram, please check it out!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEwg9AhsQSD/

-JTP/MNR

New Painting day!

I just finished a painting for  a possible gallery show at the Limner-Slow Art gallery in Hudson, NY.
Whee. Lets see if I will be in it. However, if anything, I'm proud I finished this piece, and it came out looking 'mighty fine'. Hhahahah.

This is essentially what it looks like. I need to take it outside and take a better picture of it. Oooh I really want a studio where I can set up lighting for photographs...

I am going to touch it up a bit but this is what it looks like.

Now to start a new painting!
I also have some unfinished acrylic paintings I need to work on...
Ugh.... but oil painting is fun! I still have the... unfortunate idea that oil painting takes a while to finish each stage. It takes SO long to dry. I took this photo a few days ago and its still drying...
I think I want to write a post in the future comparing and contrasting acrylic painting and oil painting. Just my thoughts on it for my own process.


-JTP/MNR

Chii From Chobits, lolita art! ATC/ACEO for sale

https://www.etsy.com/listing/242139761/chii-from-chobits-atc-aceo-fanart-clamp

Hot off the press. <3 p="">An original hand drawn piece of fanart of Chii from Chobits,

-MNR

Quick sketch before I go to bed.

Quick sketch in photoshop before I go to bed.
In photoshop. Eh. I may work on it more or not.

-MNR

ATC #11: Bubbly Red Hearts Girl

New ATC, #11 out of my series of hand drawn originals!
Will be in the shop by the end of the day, and I shall update this journal page by the evening.
Here's the preview image.

As a reminder, ATC #10 is still for sale here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/214470179/cat-girl-atc-aceo-10-original-art-cute


-MNR

Darker pinup girls (possibly nsfw)

Possibly NSFW.

Posting an image. It makes it easier to link to other places and get feedback on it.
Its just a wip for now, and I've censored some bits. This is one of the few image son my flash drive that are saved in a  favorable file format, so that I might actually continue to work on it.

-MNR