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Living in a Jim Warren Painting
For my 35th anniversary as a
professional artist, I have painted a girl reading The
Art of Jim Warren book which
transforms her into a world where anything can happen, and
usually does, much like in a Jim
Warren painting. Since my very first
painting I have always set out to
create a world much like the real world, exept for one without so many rules and
restrictions. With art we can do that.
Mysteries of Life Life is such a wondrous
mystery to a child. Actually it is still quite a mystery to us adults, we
just often give up wondering!
Old man river. Often when I begin a painting, I start with
something visual that I have already such as this man I photographed in the early 80s, beard and
all. I then use my imagination as to what I
can do with this interesting picture as to
make it even more interesting, and even
sometimes meaningfull.
Mountain Falls My children, ages
8 & 11 have grown up with my
paintings expecting some
unusual, surreal or whimsical twist to
them. When I painted Mountain Falls, my daughter looked closely at it for awhile then
said "What's weird about it?" I
have always fought against
being stereotyped as a surrealist or fantasy artist ...or any kind of artist for that matter. I simply consider myself an artist
who paints what I want, when I want. For this painting I have
painted a made up place that I would just love to live next door to.
Mountain Beauty Because of the smooth realistic style that I paint in people have sometimes asked if I use airbrush. The answer is I use only paintbrush with oil paint on canvas.
Gift from an angelThey say that gifts come in all sizes, but some are
so miraculous that we often forget to appreciate what a gift it really is or
where it even comes from.
Fountain of Youth Fountain of Youth" is a
painting I often find myself bouncing around with artistically. It is a
combination of a portrait and an illustration for the label of a bottle of
vitamins...named, "Fountain of Youth."
My daily work is ecclectic. One day I find
myself painting portraits, and the next I'll be working on a movie
ad or some such project. When I have the time, I get to paint one of my
own creations that I can display at one of the 40
galleries where my work is shown.
Mother and Child
To me the bond between Mother and
Child is almost fantasy like. It
has been expressed
often in books, movies, and in
art.
If I Were a Mermaid and You Were a
Unicorn Throughout my 30 year career I have often been asked to paint a Unicorn.
At first I was hesitant because, honestly, I felt
they were too 'girlie'. Finally, when my
daughter was born I gave in and created my first Unicorn. But...if you
notice the reflections you will find I still threw in a
little twist.
The mermaid and the unicorn
I think we all no matter what age, to a
greater or lesser degree live with one foot in, and one foot
out of the fantasy world.
Ocean Dreams When painting
surrealism, many questions can be raised due to the
surealistic nature of the subject. In this painting "Ocean
Dreams" one might wonder this of the girl who has fallen
asleep after reading: Is she laying
comfortably in bed dreaming that she is at the beach ...or has she fallen asleep at
the beach and is dreaming about being in her nice soft bed covered with a blanket?
The Calling This painting is about an adult fairy tale where
romance calls in a most
magical and surprising
way.
On a Clear Day As they say, "On a clear day you can see forever" and I add to that, with a clear mind you can see
and imagine all the beauty and emotions that
you want.
Colorful World As a child I was always curious about colors. I
wondered why there was a limited number of
colors and what would new colors look like if there were more. I just couldn't picture any in
my mind. Maybe that is why I became an artist. I have since come to the
realization that all that is possible is the colors
that are in the rainbow, which is really made up
of only three basic colors; red, yellow and blue. The rest are just
mixes and variations of those.
Above the Clouds While flying above the clouds on an airplane to Hawaii, with plenty of free time, I noticed
that the clouds up there took on a strange
shape of that to me looked like wild
horses. I immediately said to myself "There's
a new painting someday" So here it
is...
Everchanging sea
Within the Pages Sometimes a good book will put you completely
in another world
Beautiful Sadness There is a feeling that seems we all
like to feel at times which I call "The Beautiful Sadness of it all". It is a sad feeling, usually associated with a love
loss, but mixed with an inner confidence and strength that lets us know that somehow everything will turn out okay. We experience this
feeling in some of the most popular movies, books, songs and in life. I think we enjoy this feeling because
life has to have some challenge, even in romance, or we simply become
bored even with the greatest of happiness. If you look close at the
reflection of the woman you will see that she is actually happy, and the storm above her head is really a
beautiful autumn tree, symbolizing the idea that everything really will turn out okay, if only you believe. This
painting was inspired by a song composed by Russian pianist Oksana, who is working on a series of songs
inspired by my art. (Oksana is also the model for this painting, fittingly
enough. The model for the storm is Katrina, an actual shot as she was
approaching New Orleans)
Love of Nature
The theme for this
painting is that Love Makes the World go around.
Eye of Mother Earth Recently I was sent a picture of a nebula in
deep space, shot by the Hubble telescope which amazingly looked like an
eye. It was called The Eye of God, obvious
enough why. I decided to do a painting of this and while doing the sketch it
occurred to me that I should do a pair of eyes,
on two separate paintings. Mother Earth was the natural choice for the other eye as I feel that she, even though only
existing symbolically, is the closest partner to God
himself.
Eye of God The model for this
painting was an actual photo of a nebula taken by the Hubble telescope in deep space. I did not alter it any way in order to make it appear more eye like. Coincidence?
You figure.
Eye of the StormLiving in Florida for the past ten years has been a constant fear that during
storm season this unstoppable,
unpredictable monster with a human name will make it's way right into
my neighborhood.So far it's decided to pass
us by.
The Road Less Traveled
Religious and spiritual beliefs are very important in this world but I think
what is even more important is that we all
have the freedom of choice in these beliefs.
Motherly Love Sometimes I think all
this world really needs is simply a little old fashioned Motherly
Love.
Rising Son Although I have a son who is now 12, he did
not model for this painting, and has not yet complained to me about
that fact.
Eagles Landing This painting was
inspired by the unique beauty of Alaska. No, I have never been there but am preparing to go
soon on a Princess Cruise art show tour. I am easily inspired by
simply looking through a few books, a little
internet research and a whole lot of imagination.
Wave in the Woods I set out to do a beautiful nature painting but could
not decide between a forest or an ocean scene. I decided what the heck, I will combine the two. I
consider this a rather "quirky" painting even for me as I am not even
sure if it is surreal or not. Are there ever
waves in the woods? Probably not but in my
world there are no rules, anything goes.
Lost Wave
Nature's finest
Being a surrealist/fant
asy artist, when I am
undecided as to whether I
should paint a forest or an ocean scene, it is totally
acceptably for me, even
expected of me to simply combine the
two
Wonderland