Jim O'Neil's photos

Watercolors on acetate (clear, transparent) against a blue (paper) background.

To date this is the painting I am happiest with in my ongoing experiment of using acetate as a ground. Children's marker on acetate against a white background.

Still playing with markers on acetate.

Using children's Crayola markers, I sketched the image on acetate, clear plastic, and then photographed it against different colored backgrounds. Hey, I found it interesting! -grin- 81/2" X 11"

A quick sketch that I may want to use for a larger painting later. The sunrise/sunsets up here can be amazing in that the sun moves slowly across the horizon instead of dipping quickly out of sight. Subsequently we'll often have a gold or rose bar of light stretching well over 180 degrees around the horizon!! Ink and Caran D'Ache Neocolor II crayons on 6" X 9" 140 pound watercolor paper.

Ah March! The time of year to shave off the winter beard, cut the hair (what there is of it) and face on coming summer with a smile on my bare face and a song in my heart! I am more than willing to post the good and the bad here on Flickr, -but I do try to keep the ugly posts, pictures of myself, to a minimum. :-) Oh yea, I did mess up my hair (singular?) and beard more than normal especially for the photo.

Ya take a little old lady, excuse me, I mean mature woman, from a poor underdeveloped country like Japan and show her a big boomin' city like North Pole, Alaska, -she just goes crazy, I mean absolutely crazy!! Can't ya just feel all the excitement she's emoting? -GRIN- Colored pencil on 12" X 12" colored stock

I wonder who has been walking on my trail? The big footprints to the right are mine and Kumikosan's, old rabbit tracks on the left, but the bare, four toed, prints in the middle?

From last night's life drawing session. Ink and Caran D'Ache water soluble crayons on 14" X 17" sketch paper.

The world as seen from the day after tomorrow.... Colored pencil. oil pastel and marker on 12" X 12" colored paper.

Ink.

Hum. I guess I'm in a rather odd mood tonight. Watercolor on 11" X 17" cold press, 140 lb.

Lately, for some reason, I've been thinking about a friend of mine from my NYC days, whom I long ago lost contact with, Bruno Eckhart. He grew up in Germany during WW II and the aftermath. His paintings strongly reflected his background and he was, very strongly, anti war. Today I happened to visit krikl's photostream and his "still life of mass murder" set. My Japanes friend, Kumiko, is strongly pacifist, as I'd expect from someone who grew up an hour or so away from Hiroshima. None the less there are obviously times when men of good will must stand together and stop, by any means possible the actions of madmen and fanatics. Subsequently thanks to my damn friend Bruno and damn stefan kriki, and damn Kumiko, I had to toss watercolors like oils and emote this piece to express a little that which I can't really put in to words! Watercolor on 140 pound 11" X 15" cold press, photographed while paint was still wet.

mixed media, colored marker, colored pencil and soft pastel on 12" X 12" colored stock

marker on scrap paper.

OK, The moose figured out how to pull off the plastic on my greenhouse (around the corner) and is happily nibbling the plants still therein from last summer. Oh well, a little more work for me, come spring, rebuilding it.

colored markers on 12" X 12" colored stock.

It don't mean a thang marker & colored pencil on colored stock.