Jim O'Neil's photos

Charcoal on 11" X 15" sketch paper

I was thinking about bums, tramps hobos, A.K.A. today, homeless people and the Great Depression. I'm one generation removed from it so I grew up hearing a lot of first hand stories of those days. Yes there were soup lines in NYC etc., -but mostly people just coped and carried on living and loving. My dad, for example, not finding work in Ohio went out west and worked construction, mailing his laundry home to Ohio for his mother to wash and mail back -and also, of course mailing most of his paycheck. Said paycheck going far to support the family and keep two younger sisters in school. If the very massive bubble busts today in our 'give me', rather than 'can do', society I wonder how things will go..... Mixed media on colored stock

stream of consciousness painting? mixed media; watercolor, soft pastel, marker on 11" X 15" 140 pound cold pressed

Monday morning sketch. Colored ball points and woodless colored pencil on colored paper.

charcoal and water color on 11" X14" sketch paper.... and, oh yea, a little bit of crayon too.

On colored stock, various mediums; colored ball points, crayon, colored pencil, soft pastel, etc.

飼いならす 雄牛, to tame the bull. (best viewed large) Oh, a few years back, during the 12th century in fact, a guy in China, named Kakuan, drew ten pictures of bulls and wrote a set of comments on them. So! I did this one. This is acrylic on acetate, but I painted it so the acetate side, not the side I painted on, would be the viewed side, laying the foreground colors first and the gesso last. Of course everything had to be a mirror image of what you see, including the calligraphy at the top (don't try this at home, kids, it will drive you crazy!). Why did I paint it so the clear acetate side would be out? Look at how the colors pop! Acrylic on acetate, 17" X 22"

colored pencil on tinted stock

I'm playing with some ideas, creatures , people, that may (or may not) end up in a large painting. colored pencil on colored stock.

Movin' a bit slow today... :-) colored pencil on colored stock

I was doing a quick study last night at a drawing session and the hand ending up looking so dead and lifeless -I decided I might as well just cut it off. Oh well... :-) ink and water soluble oil pastels on 11" X 14" sketch paper.

One minute poses. Wednesday night at the North Pole Grange. Ink & water soluble oil pastels on 11" X 14" sketch paper

Wednesday night at the North Pole Grange. Ink & water soluble oil pastels on 11" X 14" sketch paper

Wednesday night at the North Pole Grange. Charcoal on 11" X 14" sketch paper

10 minute pose. Wednesday night at the North Pole Grange. Ink & water soluble oil pastels on 11" X 14" sketch paper

Wednesday night at the North Pole Grange. Charcoal on 11" X 14" sketch paper

Wednesday night at the North Pole Grange. Ink & water soluble oil pastels on 11" X 14" sketch paper

Wednesday night at the North Pole Grange. Charcoal on 11" X 14" sketch paper