Jay Juno

@jayjuno.com

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Auteur - Witch 🌙📚 Just an Alaskan who's focused on my magna opera, Potential and naked.🎭 Alaska🎣❄️🫎 Website- www.jayjuno.com Music- soundcloud.com/witchartist

A cardamom bun by FikaTime in Anchorage, Alaska next to instructions about how to bake the bun as well as how to join the Cardamom Club. Fika is essentially a coffee break that is popular in Nordic countries.
Stereometry is a way of learning how to draw the human figure by breaking it down into geometric shapes and basic generic measurements. The stereometric approach to drawing people was popularized during the Renaissance by artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, etc. I've spent so much time the last few years on still lifes, color studies, and landscapes that my anatomy knowledge has atrophied a bit, so I'm going back over some of the basics. I'm going through the Basic Human Anatomy by Roberto Osti to help me with this, and what I like about his approach is that he encourages artists to actually understand how muscles and bones work in the human body (instead of just copying them visually like how most artists do....) I agree with Osti, in that the only way an artist can advance enough to draw people from imagination is to learn and understand how the human figure moves instead of just copying it. To draw people from memory instead of relying on photographs or models, one needs to study where muscles are located, how they're connected in different spots, how certain movements cause certain muscles to stretch or bend, etc. The more an artist studies and internalizes this information, the more permanent the knowledge will become and eventually it'll become second nature. Without this knowledge, an artist will always be heavily dependent on photographs and models just to even begin the composition of a drawing of a person or character- and this kind of dependence on references leads to artwork that is limited itself, and is thus often boring.
Wishing everyone a Happy Father's Day~ 💙 I'm honoring my father by reading some of his favorite authors, Plato and Charles Schulz. Love you and miss you every single day, dad... Photograph attached to this post is of three books. The first book is Republic by Plato, and the other two books are by comic artist and author Charles M. Schulz.
Another layer of paint and copper metal leaf applied to this portrait of Aphrodite Höst~ 🎨🙏🏻 Aphrodite is a character from naked. She's the mother of the protagonist, Sappho Höst. She's a witch too but more powerful. The cat is Mr. M. He's a Maine Coon. Mr. M is short for Mr. Mistoffelees. Her blue dress is pure Ultramarine Blue, the modern pigment for the traditional lapis lazuli, which was so expensive that it was usually reserved for holy figures like the Virgin Mary, angels, and even Jesus Christ himself. Her skin is still green in an attempt to emulate the verdaccio painting technique from the Renaissance, where artists applied warm colors over a green underpainting in order to make the warm flesh tones stand out more (green is the complement to red/orange). This is my first time applying metal leaf to a canvas (I have applied copper leaf to paper before). I have a few sheets of gold and silver, but I'm not sure I'll use them on this painting. Plato's Republic and the artwork of Gustav Klimt are my two main inspirations for incorporating metallics into my art. This is oil paint and copper leaf on canvas. This is unfinished and therefore a Work in Progress (WIP).
Still life of fireweed, an apple, and a teapot in watercolor~ 🎨🍎🌿 This is watercolor on 100% cotton paper (cold press).
No Kings protest sign in Anchorage, Alaska. The sign reads "Let's go Bloodclot 2026"
No Kings protest sign in Anchorage, Alaska~
God is an Anunnaki who has been assigned Gaia (Earth) as her personal protectorate after it was confiscated from Enlil. It's her responsibility to protect and defend humanity- none of the other Anunnaki wanted the job, not even Grandma Ki. This is how she appears when she isn't fused with her technorganic raiment. God is not her real name, but rather the title given to any Anunnaki who's assigned to be Lord and Protector over Earth. Here, God holds a summoning tablet (libra). This is one of several ancient tablets that can summon a powerful being. Humanity is completely unaware that God is actually a woman. She is one of the last Anunnaki women to still be alive after Enlil murdered most of them thousands of years ago during the Great Flood. This is watercolor on cotton paper.
Concept art of Inanna~ Like all Anunnaki, Inanna is thousands of years old and witnessed the beginning of humanity's rise into civilzation in ancient times. She has also been known by other names including Aphrodite, Venus, Isis, and so on. This is mixed media that was cleaned up digitally.
Impressionist study of one of my teapots~ 🎨🍵 This is artist crayons and metallic ink on crescent board. The yellow was done with water-soluble crayons. This drawing is about 4x6 inches in size.
Figure skater painting~ 🎨❄ This is watercolor, gouache, and color pencil on paper.
Impressionist soft pastel study of a winter sunrise in Alaska, in high resolution~🎨🌄 This is soft pastel on toned paper.
Impressionist soft pastel study of a winter sunrise in Alaska~ This is soft pastel on toned paper.
Impressionist study of birch trees at night in watercolor~ This is watercolor paint on cotton paper.
Blue underpainting (imprimatura) for an impressionist/expressionist oil painting of some birch trees and foot steps, scanned in high resolution~ Posting this high resolution scan of the blue underpainting (original digital scan is 600dpi). Once oil paint is completely dry, it can be scanned on a flatbed scanner which is something I never tried before with an oil painting! The other picture posted before was a photograph and not as detailed. This version is closer to how the painting actually looks in person and has much more detail. I also wanted a high resolution scan of this version of the painting to keep forever since it will essentially disappear when I apply the first layers of oil paint. This is oil paint on wood panel. This is a Work in Progress~
Purple winter birch tree oil painting, with the second layer of paint~ Added thick paint to give texture to the snow. Mostly just smoothed out edges and applied another layer of light yellow paint (Cadmium Yellow with Titanium White). I used palette knives for some of the texture on the snow. This is the first time I've painted with palette knives since 2018 in Denver, Colorado. This is oil paint on canvas (stretched over a wooden frame).
This is an impressionist expressionist study of winter birch trees~ This is soft pastel on paper.
Chugkh is a raptor who lives in the water and must swim through creeks and rivers to keep up with his companions, Sohlo and Jeann the snow raptor. After a traumatic event years ago, he was afflicted with a curse that causes him to start involuntarily self-immolating as soon as he's dry. To cope, he's adapted into a sea creature. Some of his favorite catches include sockeye salmon and spruce tips. He also loves berries and honey. Chugkh once went out onto the mudflats and got stuck when the tide started to come in. He almost got himself and others drowned because they had to go underwater to pull him free from the mud. Naturally, he's developed a bit of a phobia about mudflats and he avoids going near one as much as he can. Chugkh is a character from Potential. Chugkh and Potential belong to Jay Juno.
Sunrise over the mountains from Anchorage~ 🎨🌄 This is soft pastels on paper. This is my impressionist/expressionist interpretation of the sunrise as I see it behind where I live. The lights represent houses.
A cartoon of Donald Trump as a silly clown.
Red pear in soft pastel... This mini artwork was created with Caran d'Ache pastel pencils, which are some of the softest and most saturated pastel pencils I've ever tried. The paper is Pastelmat by Clairefontaine, and it's one of the best papers I've tried for soft pastels.
This is a color pencil drawing of a raptor with autumn leaves against a green background of shaded grass.
Coffee in watercolor and ink... This is titled "Love for Coffee". This is watercolor paint and ink on paper, with a flair of art nouveau. Coffee is big in Alaska. There are so many coffee stands and huts here. I like getting a lungo myself~ Since this illustration was made with student grade watercolor paint on cellulose paper, I'd like to try making a new one with the artist grade watercolors on cotton paper (now that I've gotten better at painting). That, and I want to try a different design with maybe blue or purple.
Red apple in soft pastel, over an underpainting of watercolor... This is on Pastelmat paper, which can handle both wet and dry mediums like watercolor and soft pastels. I chopped it down into baseball card sized pieces and smaller sizes for miniature artwork. Mini art is less stressful, and good for trying out art techniques without wasting supplies. I like doing an underpainting of blue watercolor paint then finishing the drawing off in soft pastels or color pencil. The blue seems to glow through the crystals of the soft pastel.
Sappho Höst, protagonist of naked... This is a digital sketch drawn with a stylus on a tablet.
Salmon sketches with watercolor pencils... ^-^ It's salmon season right now in Alaska! They turn red after they start spawning and swimming upstream. Sockeye salmon are my favorite to paint and draw because they turn green, too. Watercolor pencil brands used include Museum Aquarelle by @carandache, Albrecht Durer by @fabercastellglobal, Inktense by @derwentartofficial, and Rembrandt Aquarelle by @lyra_feelcreative. Watercolor sketchbook is from @etchr_lab. Art supplies procured at @blainesartak in Anchorage, Alaska.
Oranges drawn in different color oencil brands. Color pencils used include Polychromos by Faber-Castell, Derwent Lightfast, Holbein, Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor, and Caran d'Ache Luminance. Toned sketchbook is from Hahnemuehle.
This is a scratch board illustration I made after Russia invaded Ukraine. The baby within the sunflower is meant to symbolize all the innocent lives lost as a result of Russia's terrorism.