Jon Mcnaught

Dolphin Cafe

one  of my photos, similar gradient and colours.

Double Page Spread for Art Review Magazine

Linocut and Lithographs, 2013, Life style express

one of my photos, similar could scheme.

Bristol http://jonmcnaught.co.uk/
Printmaking and comics
Works as a technician in the Uni of Bristol


He graduated from UWE in 2007 and works in Spike Island in the cafe and going to the print room after his shift.

He felt embarrassed making up his own sequences, and uses a lot from real life via photos or observations.

Is with NoBrow publishers and has done editorial work.

One of his comics is based on his suburban home town of Winchester, which he made up the name 'birch field close' for.

NoBrow saw his book on his blog, called him up and asked him to complete 'Birchfield close'.

A Magazine STRIPBURGER asked for some strips too.

Paint a colour in grey, and one in black, edit in Photoshop for the colours. 

Another book, Kingdom, is based on his sketches from a visit to Scilly islands where he spent a week camping and drawing. 

He noted the reflections and and everyday happenings that i am also interested in.

Intention

I think my work continually has a sense of movement and energy to it, be in buildings or people. I feel I can use colour well and enjoy testing what and how colour can change an image. I want to master the balance of colouring and lifework, as well as keeping the kinetic flow but making a piece look professional and not a sketch. I am inspired by what I see on the street  - textures of layered paint, crumbling buildings and what people wear. I recored what I see.

colour

movement

line

+ Printing - different print methods
and how colour is effected.
+ Limited colours and how it
effects the atmosphere.

+ Expressive

+ Calligraphic lines

+ Fashion
+ Weight and thickness,
how it affects movement.

+ Matisse - his bold use.
+ Jon Mcnought - atmosphere.
+ Claude Monet - impressionistic uses.

+  Chinese painting

+ Brush work
+ Laura Carlin

+ Picasso

+ Henri- toulouse Lautrec
+ Lucinda  Rogers

Lucinda Rogers...

Laura Carlin...

Jon Mcnought

Artist research

.......starting points.....

Colour - The sky, Light

Movement - Birds, People

Line - Buildings, Bicycles.

= Environment

My main objective is to record through reportage and observational drawing. I find being in situ inspirational and submergive. 

I am drawn to the way bicycles are tied to posts, left on sidewalks, how their paint contrasts with their background.

Buildings, perspective. The details you don’t quite notice when you look upwards. 

Within these, I’ll look into the way people interact with these spaces, how do they react?

And nature, within the town and country side, birds are the most popular wildlife, seen in the sky and perching on power lines.

And last of all, sky. How does the hour of day effect the light? How does the light effect the people, birds and atmosphere? 

All this is observing the environment and the things that make it.

Im going to achieve the textures through paint and print, and expand my practice in the print room.

I have a ‘catalog’ of photos I’ll use for primary research