https://jadartstudio.com/blog daily 0.75 2026-03-25 https://jadartstudio.com/blog/achromatichexaptych monthly 0.5 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/6d0023e5-0db5-4ae2-8d02-c22641189583/Achromatic+Hexaptych+-+3-26.png Blog - Achromatic Hexaptych - 6 in x 36 in each, 3/26 I was inspired to do a hexaptych (a set of six paintings) by the tradition of famous sets of paintings in art history such as diptychs (a set of two paintings; think of “Marilyn Diptych” by Andy Warhol), triptychs (a set of three paintings; think of “The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Hieronymus Bosch), or sets of paintings of even higher numbers (think of the “Ghent Altarpiece” by Jan van Eyck that has 12 panels). My vision was to make a set of six “extreme rectangle” paintings (each canvas 6 inches x 36 inches), painted with identical shades of whites, blacks, grays and silvers, united by geometric shapes but differing in their patterning. I started by drawing grids onto the canvases and settled on themes of (1) vertical lines, (2) dividing the canvas lengthwise into sixths and drawing triangles differing from each other by 10 degrees, (3) all arcs and rounded lines, (4) polka dots all over, (5) mostly triangles, and (6) a conventional grid drawn from the edges and equidistant points on the side. I used one color at a time applied across the different canvases simultaneously, so for example, I started with “N2 Gray” and applied it to all six canvases, and then “N3 Gray” and so on such that, for the most part, every canvas shares each color. Then, to finish the work and give unity to the hexaptych, I decided to add black Mandala dots to each canvas, in a way that made sense for the pattern of the individual piece. Taken together, the hexaptych reads as an exploration of variation within constraint: one narrow vertical format, an achromatic palette, and a tightly controlled vocabulary of stripes, triangles, circles, and radiating wedges. Each panel feels like a distinct “movement” in a suite, but they are bound together by rhythm, repetition, and a shared grayscale timbre. The achromatic range—from nearly pure white through soft silvers to deep charcoal—pushes attention away from color and onto value, texture, and pattern. Subtle differences in sheen and surface (matte vs reflective, flat vs textured) become the stand-ins for chromatic contrast, so “color” is experienced as temperature of light rather than hue. This heightens a sense of order and clarity while still allowing for sensuality in the materials. The individual panels vary from linear to radial to lattice to crystalline, as though the system is testing every way a grid can be bent, rotated, or densified. What holds the ensemble together is a strong sense of underlying algorithm: dots march in measured sequences, wedges expand at consistent angles, triangulated fields repeat with measured variation. Despite the rigorous structure, the panels that feel expansive and radiant alternate with ones that feel dense and compressed. Together they trace an emotional arc from analytic calm to almost ecstatic complexity. The challenge to the viewer is to decide whether to treat each panel as a different “mode” within a single visual system (like scales in music), or are they merely six individual pieces that happen to coexist in one frame. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/owleyes monthly 0.5 2026-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/a9a91671-d5d4-4899-a360-cdc68e3d7d86/Owl+Eyes+3-26.jpeg Blog - Owl Eyes - 13 in x 21 in 3/2026 My intention for this piece was to explore interactions between many shades of orange, laid down in a symmetric grid made up primarily of circles and arcs. I included transparent, opaque and metallic acrylics, and used several impasto techniques to give textural interest. When it was done, I positioned the canvas in a portrait position (longer vertically than horizontally), but when I showed it to my daughter and her boyfriend, they asked to see it “on its side”. In the landscape position, the painting evoked two large owl eyes with a beak in between, hence its name. “Owl Eyes” rests on a strong bilateral axis, so the two circular “ocular” clusters read immediately as paired eyes, but they are nested in a broader horizontal mandala that stretches edge to edge. The dominant rusts, oranges, and umbers give the work a nocturnal, autumnal heat. Alternating smooth and stippled or crinkled surfaces create a quiet tension between the mechanical precision of the grid and the physicality of the paint used to fill in the grid. The textured segments read almost like plumage or bark, adding a tactile animal and woodland association that deepens the titular reference without resorting to figuration. Because no single motif dominates, the viewer toggles between reading the image as two watchful eyes, four overlapping orbs, and a continuous tessellated band, which mimics the way an owl’s stare feels both fixed and strangely shifting. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/fracturedgeode monthly 0.5 2026-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/360ff13d-3160-4640-842e-983acfde03ca/Fractured+Geode+3-2026.jpeg Blog - Fractured Geode - 24 in x 24 in 3/2026 This painting reads as a controlled field of shapes that feels both architectural and mineral—like looking at a crystalline lattice mid-fracture. The shapes, mainly triangles, interlock without forming an obvious repeating pattern, and the slight irregularities in size, shape, and angles suggests a shifting tiling, with the shapes "floating" on a sea of textured white. The use of nested, concentric triangles inside each cell creates a strong inward pull, so the eye oscillates between the network as a whole and the individual “chambers” within it. There’s a tension between order and fracture: the geometry implies an underlying grid, but the way the shapes fan and swivel around invisible centers introduces a sense of disruption and motion. The palette is tightly controlled—cool greys, blacks, whites, and silvery tones—yet it feels rich because of the value range and surface differentiation. Each shape is outlined in antique silver, which unifies the components. Metallic and textured inner segments act like veins of mineral or reflective inclusions; they catch light differently and they, along with heavily textured components, give the piece a quasi-sculptural presence, as if parts of the surface are cut stone rather than paint. The limited palette keeps the focus on structure and light, and subtle temperature shifts (warm vs. cool greys) stand in for overt color symbolism. Although the painting is flat, the nested triangles and alternating values create a convincing illusion of layered planes. Many forms read like cross-sections of three-dimensional wedges, so the piece hovers between diagram and object, almost like looking down into a geode sliced open. The white “mortar” between shapes behaves like negative space and connective tissue at once, giving breathing room while also implying cracks or fault lines along which the structure might further separate. Because the palette is cool and the forms are sharply defined, the overall affect is cerebral and analytical, yet the irregularities and shimmering textures keep it from feeling sterile. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/strataofalivingearth monthly 0.5 2026-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/b977b341-5900-4ddb-b314-a2e3f7558223/Strata+of+a+Living+Earth+2-26.jpeg Blog - Strata of a Living Earth - 18 in x 29 in 2/2026 “Strata of a Living Earth” reads as a horizontal cross‑section through the planet, translating geology and ecology into color and texture. The stacked bands move from deep, dark, almost stony or lava‑like layers at the bottom toward increasingly luminous greens at the top, suggesting a gradual ascent from bedrock and mineral deposits to fertile soil and finally to dense surface vegetation. Each band is discrete yet contiguous, and the textural variations in surface treatment—crackling, ridged, glossy, or matte—imply different densities, moisture levels, and organic content. The colors used were chosen to be representative of different layers of the land from deep down in the earth to what's on top of the surface. The lower zones lean into charred blacks, umbers, and iron‑rich reds, evoking heat, compression, and geological time, whereas the upper greens feel oxygenated and photosynthetic - a band of life dependent on and derived from inorganic substrate below. Metallic strips hint at the preciousness of resources we extract from below. The unspoken environmental subtext is that what appears as stable ground is in fact a dynamic interplay of interdependent processes. The flourishing greens at the surface are contingent on what lies beneath. In this way, “Strata of a Living Earth” serves as a contemplative diagram of our planet’s layered, living body. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/fromchaosorder monthly 0.5 2026-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/77533b80-65d8-4ed0-983d-1b3d76bda5f8/From+Chaos%2C+Order+02-2026.jpeg Blog - From Chaos, Order - 24 in x 24 in 2/2026 My goal for this painting was to incorporate both disordered and ordered components to it. I decided to make a central, off-kilter, square rotated against its canvas, surrounded by four identical triangles to fill in the space made by the square's rotation. The square is made up of precise geometric shapes, laid down with symmetry in mind and guided by a grid laid down from the corners and divisions of the canvas. The surrounding triangular shapes were made by first laying down a background of white, letting it dry completely, then dripping dabs of different greys, blacks and silvers down onto the white and finally using a sgraffito technique to scratch in lines using color shifters (basically paintbrushes with silicon tips on the end instead of bristles). The concept here is that the ordered central square arises from the chaos of the bordering triangles. The tilt of the central square gives the impression that the field might be in motion, yet it is held in place by a rigid, black border. The square and the triangles are all bordered by a textured antique silver rim. The restricted grayscale palette—ranging from near-black to bright white— focuses attention on structure, contrast, and geometry. The small silver dots added to the painting give added interest. Taken together, the painting reads as an exploration of how ordered systems can emerge from chaotic complexity. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/geometricvalentine monthly 0.5 2026-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/d9941cb1-3867-45d6-941d-605c7aac1378/Geometric+Valentine+2-26.jpeg Blog - Geometric Valentine - 13 in x 21 in 2/2026 “Geometric Valentine” celebrates love with structure and symmetry. Pinks, whites and reds were used in a range of intensities through a range of temperatures to depict “love” as a spectrum rather than as a single note. I added a lot of texture to the piece to give interest and also to suggest the play of light on cut stone, as might appear in a faceted jewel. Repeated diamond shapes evoke the classic gemstone given to loved ones. Some shapes appear smooth and flat, while others are visibly impastoed or stippled to add richness. In a sense, the alternation between matte and shimmering, smooth and rough, sets up a dialogue between idealized love and its real, sometimes abrasive surfaces. The painting therefore is not just decorative geometry, but an exploration of how order and complexity, polish and irregularity, coexist with intimacy. The radial symmetry suggests that underneath the cultural trappings of the annual Valentine’s day holiday lies a set of enduring structures—patterns of attraction, reciprocity, vulnerability—that can be celebrated artistically. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/aquacircles monthly 0.5 2026-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/7877c35b-c016-407e-98f1-e4f9b45a2fef/Aqua+Circles+2-26.jpeg Blog - Aqua Circles - 22 in x 22 in 2/2026 A central circle filled in with greens is flanked by symmetrically placed teal circles radiating out toward each corner of this square canvas on a background of blues. This piece is about symmetric geometry and a restricted palette of blues, teals and greens to suggest an aquatic theme. The composition is built on a grid of triangles and diamonds, locking four large circular forms around a central green medallion. Each circle is subdivided into wedge-like segments, and a repeated pinwheel motif generates an implied rotation that counters the symmetry of the piece. The green in the middle of the painting references organic life in an otherwise aquatic environment, and I used a lot of textured impasto throughout the piece to catch the light in interesting ways and to prevent the painting from feeling "flat". The eye is led around the painting through nested rhythms: radial spins within each circle, diamond chains that link corners, and star-like shapes that emerge in the negative spaces between forms. My goal is for the experience to echo the act of looking through a kaleidoscope—initial impact followed by incremental discoveries. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/intergalactic monthly 0.5 2026-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/daa9a015-a02b-4e77-a57e-26a2a7a05743/Intergalactic+1-26.jpeg Blog - Intergalactic - 24 in x 24 in 1/2026 “Intergalactic” reads like a kaleidoscope mid‑spin, with a skewed central square set on the diagonal, triangular edge shapes, and a slightly off‑kilter red‑to‑blue grid that gives it a space‑like feel. The nested, rotated squares create a sense of tilting or slipping space, with the inner square acting as a misaligned portal into another dimension. Hard black bands stabilize the vibrating color and shape relationships. Within this structure, small triangles and wedges arranged in a linear grid give the painting a crystalline, faceted order, yet the constant participation of each unit in larger patterns keeps the eye from resting. A hot red core radiates outward into cooler magentas, violets, purples, and finally blues, suggesting heat, density, and gravitational pull surrounded by a cooling halo, like a star. This temperature gradient creates depth and implies time, with the center as origin or ignition and the edges as expansion and dissipation. Off‑kilter color families and shifting triangular modules produce motion and visual unease. Multiple rhythms—radiating spokes, concentric rings, and diagonals—form a complex visual polyrhythm akin to musical syncopation. Dark dots add a smaller scale of detail and keep the surface from becoming mechanically patterned, while the strict geometry prevents the loud color and density from collapsing into chaos, reinforcing a conceptual reading about cosmology and the instability of perception and perspective. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/airpollution monthly 0.5 2026-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/c9709359-f539-47e8-ad6d-99da70f509b7/Air+Pollution+1-26.jpeg Blog - Air Pollution - 13 in x 21 in, 1/26 A valued colleague at work (Sophie Wells) knew that I was interested in painting "air" as part of the "Natural Elements" series. She challenged me to paint a picture of air pollution, which at once I viewed as ridiculous (who would want an ugly painting of pollution on their wall?) but also as a challenge. Could pollution ever be viewed as interesting? I decided to lay down a textured background of modelling paste in wave-like repetitive forms that reminded me of air movement. I overlaid very pastel shades of yellow, orange and green (thinking of some colors that smog might have in it), then applied diluted aluminum grit and iron oxide flakes very, building them up in layers to suggest particulate matter suspended in air. The result is a painting that reads as a quiet, atmospheric field of movement drifting across a pale, polluted sky. The combination of gentle waveforms with dirty, granular deposits suggests natural systems overlaid with the slow accumulation of human-made residue. Viewed up close, the granular details overwhelm, but at a distance, the canvas resolves into a tranquil, snowy field, underscoring how environmental damage can be both omnipresent and easily overlooked. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/sawtooth monthly 0.5 2026-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/5ea383b2-311d-4349-9581-837024b8f12a/Sawtooth+1-26.jpeg Blog - Sawtooth - 24 in x 24 in 1/2026 My intention for this piece was to explore shape and texture and pattern using only blacks, whites, grays and silvers. Limiting the palette to neutral tones devoid of primary colors helps the viewer focus on the geometry of the piece. The grayscale palette sharpens attention to structure, so that value shifts become the primary drama instead of color. The composition is anchored by a circular star-like form whose eight triangular segments suggest motion or rotation. The highlight of the painting is a set of four serrated fan-like shapes that were made with an adjustable triangle, progressively altering the angle 5 degrees outward from the midpoint of the edges of the canvas. They remind me of wings, or steps or teeth on a saw and read as kinetic, as if the surface were unfurling and recoiling. Though there is symmetry in the work, it is not mirrored from one side to the other. The darker wedges seem to recede while brighter patterns appear closer, giving a sculptural quality to the piece. I also incorporated a lot of texture into the piece; the smooth gradients against more granular or stippled regions suggests different “materials” that give an industrial feel to the work. My goal was for this painting to evoke associations with engineered systems, but also to be contemplative. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/onthebreeze monthly 0.5 2026-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/cdbf8708-4bfd-4f4b-946f-a2fe6f8b9e75/On+the+Breeze+1-26.jpeg Blog - On the Breeze - 13 in x 21 in, 1/26 How does one paint “air”? This is an attempt at doing so. I thought of the wind, air currents and a gentle atmosphere when I made this painting. In contrast to most of my geometric work, I did not use a masking technique here. Rather, I lay down texture with modeling paste, applying it in swoops that reminded me of air movement. Once dried, I applied various whites and very light pastels of blue, pink and lavender to imagine the “colors of the wind”. Lastly, I added interference blue in small areas to give a dichroic feel to the piece (at least up close and in person) and finally some clear glass beads to provide some sparkle. The result is a painting that reads as a quiet, atmospheric abstraction that evokes a gentle breeze, using texture and a muted, nearly monochrome palette to create a sense of gentle movement. There is no single area that shouts for attention; instead, the whole field glows softly, creating an overall atmosphere rather than a focal point. I suppose this piece can be thought of in the realm of abstract minimalism, where suggestion replaces depiction, emotion is carried through nuance rather than contrast, and the overall mood is contemplative and meditative, the way one might consider the breeze over the course of a quiet day. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/springtimelattice monthly 0.5 2026-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/e942f8ab-b524-4403-8004-45610c812d49/Springtime+Lattice+1-26.jpg Blog - Springtime Lattice - 24 in x 24 in 1/2026 “Springtime Lattice” is a celebration of delicacy and order done in a pastel palette reminiscent of spring: new light, early blooms, and the washed clarity of cool air. I laid down the grid in a ordered way: red-orange-yellow-green-blue-purple and then back to red, each mixed with a substantial amount of titanium white to soften the hues. By evenly distributing the colors across the grid, my intention was to prevent any single color from dominating, giving the sensation is one of ambient light rather than local color. The repetition of these tones, square by square, mimics the slow emergence of a landscape as winter recedes: incremental, measured, but inexorable. The painting is organized around a strict lattice of squares and diagonals that divide the field into larger triangular units. This lattice functions almost like an overlaid woven structure. By including diagonal lines, the viewer encounters a system of vectors that push vision inward and outward, across and through the surface. The white, raised triangular forms punctuate otherwise flat color fields, introducing a tactile dimension that breaks the painting’s purity of planar geometry. Their slight impasto catches light differently from the matte ground, so the work changes subtly as the viewer moves. These textured triangles (and the white lines) read as snow or fragments of frost, implying that spring is not necessarily an accomplished fact but a moment of transition when residual cold still clings to the architecture of the scene. “Springtime Lattice” combines emotional associations of spring—renewal, lightness, fragility—onto an almost mathematical framework. The work can be read as a meditation on how organic experiences (seasons, growth, memory) are held within structures: calendars, grids, clinical charts, or architectural frameworks. Even within strict systems, moments of subtle, sensuous emergence remain possible. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/violinmusiconthebreeze monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9761296b-f836-432f-bc52-5c11339692a6/Violin+music+on+the+breeze+in+front+of+a+range+of+mountains.jpg Blog - Music on the Breeze - 18 in x 29 in 1/2026 I intended for this painting to represent air flow, but the background colors ended up a little more saturated than I had intended. Instead of changing them, I left them as they were, since I thought the final piece looked good. I sent a photo of the painting to my daughter with the caption “air flow”, and her response was “I like it a lot, but the background reminds me of a mountain range, and the white shapes remind me of violin music”. This insight resonated with me, and I decided to call the painting “Music on the Breeze”. The painting can be viewed as a lyrical abstraction of sound carried across a landscape, where repeating white forms behave like both musical phrases and gusts of wind moving over layered terrain. The large, curling white shapes create a strong rhythmic structure, almost like a sequence of musical notes or bow strokes moving in time from left to right. Their repetition with slight variation suggests measures in a score: similar, but never identical, so the eye “hears” a flowing phrase rather than a mechanical pattern. The gentle hook at the end of each form has the gesture of a wrist turning at the end of a violin stroke, which reinforces the sense that these are embodied motions, not just decorative curls. The undulating bands of pink, rose, slate, lavender, and sky blue evoke an atmospheric landscape—mountain ranges at sunset or layers of distant hills dissolving into air. Cool blues and greys temper the warmth of the coral tones, keeping the mood meditative instead of exuberant, like a passage played pianissimo rather than fortissimo. The white motifs can be thought of as “notes” that float above the terrain like sound suspended in air. Within each white curl, the white metallic internal stroke functions like a shadow or an echo, hinting at the inner resonance of a note as it blooms and then fades. The small clusters of dots trailing some of the forms can be thought of musically as vibrato, pizzicato, or lingering overtones. Taken together, the work suggests an interplay between environment and melody: music not as something separate from place, but as a pattern that rides the same currents as wind and light. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/outerlimits monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1929684d-a1ad-4e82-a7ee-400aee383e21/Outer+Limits+12-25.jpeg Blog - Outer Limits - 20 in x 24 in 12/2021, 12/2025 This painting started with the background (done in 2021), and then I found it in the closet- unfinished – and decided to add the central starburst in 2025. “Outer Limits” radiates like a stellar explosion—an eight‑pointed burst of light pushing against the edges of an ordered, geometric cosmos. The painting captures the sensation of crossing a threshold, as if a star is expanding beyond the known charted grid of space. The background lattice of triangles functions like a cosmic coordinate system, an underlying rational universe against which the central event unfolds. The tight, even spacing of the grid evokes the human urge to measure, map, and predict what lies beyond our world. At the center, an eight-armed star made of circular forms feels kinetic, almost sonic, as if light and matter are rushing outward in multiple directions at once. The gradation in disc size—from dense and large near the core to smaller and more widely spaced at the tips—creates the illusion of acceleration, echoing a supernova, a propulsion flare, or the moment a spacecraft hits escape velocity. This radiating geometry conveys both expansion and directional intent, suggesting a journey toward the outer limits of space and knowledge. The restrained palette of blues, greens, purples, silvers, and deep browns conjures the cool vacuum of space, and alternating dark and light diamonds create a flicker effect, echoing the way stars appear to pulse against the night sky. This chromatic rhythm supports the idea of space as both vast and vibrating—quiet yet charged with energy. “Outer Limits” stages a dialogue between the mapped and the mysterious. The background suggests everything humanity has charted—our data, models, and grids—while the erupting star form embodies what exceeds those systems. The painting invites viewers to imagine the moment when exploration pushes past the edges of the diagram, when light, curiosity, and risk extend beyond the last plotted coordinate. In the context of a space exhibition, it becomes a visual metaphor for crossing from the safety of the known into the exhilarating uncertainty of the cosmic beyond. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/auric monthly 0.5 2026-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/589f31c4-83e7-4054-b04a-f11c80fc47fd/Auric+12-25.jpeg Blog - Auric - 13 in x 21 in, 12/25 This painting is all about gold – there are more than two dozen different gold shades, applied in flat tones and textures and highlighting several shades of metallic gold, including gold foil that looks like it almost vibrates on the canvas. My goal was to create a radiant geometric piece where texture and light collaborate to create a sense of opulence. The painting is organized around a strong vertical and horizontal axis, and repeating arcs and petal-like half-ovals radiate from the center, as if the geometry is slowly rotating around a still point. Multiple temperatures of gold—from pale champagne to deep ochre—mimic the shifting light of dawn to dusk such that the piece reads less as a static pattern and more as time unfolding in concentric waves. Cracked, hammered, and smooth passages of gold reference worn mosaics, gilded icons, and weathered metal all at once. In many visual traditions, gold stands for divinity, power, and endurance; here, that history is abstracted into a quiet, contemporary meditation on radiance rather than a depiction of any single deity or icon. Despite its luxurious palette, the precise geometry and measured repetitions dampen any flamboyant excess. The result is a work that feels like standing inside a luminous vault—an intimate chapel of light built entirely from interlocking, golden forms. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/controlledchaos monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/a3f00da8-ef58-48bf-b202-9300f9e8f7a7/Controlled+Chaos+12-25.jpeg Blog - Controlled Chaos - 13 in x 21 in, 12/25 “Controlled Chaos” is about the tension between order and disruption. I used a grayscale palette and a lot of impasto techniques to heighten focus on structure, rhythm, and texture rather than color. The grid is one of overlapping circles hovering over a grid of rectangles and triangles, and I laid them down somewhat randomly on the canvas, rather than being concerned with precisely connecting edges or midpoints of the canvas. The result is one of unexpected angles that create spaces that feel both engineered and fractured, as if the painting is diagramming motion itself. The restricted range of blacks, whites, silvers, and grays creates a cool, almost industrial atmosphere that reinforces a sense of design and control, yet a variety of finishes—matte, glossy, rough, hammered, and pebbled—keeps the surface alive. I incorporated silver foil, glass beads, modeling paste, and a lot of metallics. Light catches differently on each segment to suggest the idea that chaos is often a matter of perspective. Repeating geometric motifs provide an underlying logic, but unpredictable combinations of shapes hint that structure and unpredictability can coexist. The “controlled” grid and circles are stable, but the sliced spaces, textural clashes, and shifting values hint that the painting represents a dynamic, unsolved puzzle. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/harvest monthly 0.5 2025-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/e675d882-5940-4904-a4a5-dee7d3aa23ab/Harvest+12-25.jpeg Blog - Harvest - 13 in x 21 in, 12/25 This painting is all about Fall, with colors and textures referencing Autumn leaves, pumpkins, apples, gourds and a plentiful harvest. The underlying geometric pattern was made primarily with circular arcs laid down with a compass, but also with straight lines through interstices to give symmetry and complexity. The composition is symmetrical along both the vertical and horizontal axes, and it has the feel of a stained-glass window or a rose window in a cathedral. The central circular form acts like a lens to anchor the piece, and the repeated arcs and wedges create a sense of rotation. The palette leans into harvest tones—gold, ochre, rust, deep green, with cooler greens and a few smoky grays added to keep the image from becoming monotonously warm. I added a lot of impasto and texture to the piece. Some segments are smooth and satin-like, while others have a crumpled, almost geological texture to honor the land from which a bountiful harvest depends. There are small metallic-looking circles stamped onto the painting that reference seeds planted in the spring that promise a good Fall harvest. All of the complexity in color, pattern and texture gives the painting the feel of something organic, while the symmetry of the work offers a meditative calm. Saturated color and glittering textures suggest abundance and festivity that can be interpreted as a celebration of cyclical time—the turning of seasons, growth and gathering. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/fabergenoel monthly 0.5 2025-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/59cb9449-d054-4131-87f6-577f38632ec8/Faberge+Noel+12-25.jpg Blog - Faberge Noel - 13 in x 21 in, 12/25 I painted this piece to go into our home’s Christmas holiday rotation on the kitchen wall. There is a small space between the kitchen and the family room where a 13 in x 21 in canvas fits perfectly in, and we’ve come to rotate out paintings there every first day of the month. Sarah (my wife) takes the lead on this, and she picks out paintings that go with the season or holiday that month contains. My goal for this painting was to make a complex grid that combined arcs and straight lines in a geometric pattern, and then to fill it in with greens, reds and golds. When I looked at the grid, I kind of saw a central “flower” kind of shape that I thought could reference a poinsettia, so I made that in many shades of red to blend in with a sea of greens, reds and golds in the background. I added a border of micro glass beads to give textural interest. The finished painting reminded me, for some reason, of a Faberge egg, so I called the painting “Faberge Noel”. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/gobigblue monthly 0.5 2025-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/e82e0f3a-7015-4004-980e-ca998480d988/Go+Big+Blue+11-25.jpg Blog - Go Big Blue - 24 in x 24 in, 11/25 I have been a regular contributor to the DanceBlue silent auction in the Fall, and made this painting to be in the auction next year. DanceBlue is a student-run philanthropic organization that raises awareness (and funding) for supporting pediatric oncology programming and patient support at the University of Kentucky where I work as a pediatric hematologist/oncologist. I had already made a UK logo painting for my wife Sarah (who is an avid follower of their women’s volleyball team), and still had the UK stencil. In this version, I decided to make a circle of white that would house the UK logo, and around it I developed a patchwork of complementary blues. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/achromaticcompass monthly 0.5 2025-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/3a9ef22d-c71e-4a75-b662-4d5b7cca22e0/Achromatic+Compass+11-25.jpg Blog - Achromatic Compass - 24 in x 24 in, 11/25 My intention when I painted "Achromatic Compass” was for it to be a symmetric piece of complexity, done only in blacks, whites, silvers and grays so that the geometry of the piece could be the focus since color is stripped away and only value remains. The painting’s pattern draws the eye toward the center but its radial symmetry, top me, evokes a compass . There are pathways along the interlocking arcs and triangular facets. Restricting the palette helps create a contemplative atmosphere with small shifts in value standing in for the emotional charge that saturated color would normally carry. Light and dark become featured, with embedded textures and patterns seeming like coded notations or barcodes scattered around the dial to suggest signals awaiting interpretation. Additions of dots, insets and impasto keep the piece unpredictable. To me, this painting seems simultaneously static and in motion. “Achromatic Compass” is a painting that will not tell the viewer where to look, but invites a thoughtful exploration of complex, overlapping vectors that converge around geometric themes. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/junglegeometry monthly 0.5 2025-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/392ddd88-28a1-48b3-babc-9354ca6406b9/Jungle+Geometry+11-25.jpg Blog - Jungle Geometry - 18 in x 29 in, 11/25 "Jungle Geometry" is meant to highlight the relationship between abstract geometric patterns and the layered complexity of a jungle, emphasizing the many shades of greens and browns abundant in that ecosystem. The painting’s arrangement of shapes and vibrant green and earthy hues reflect a natural order found within rainforest environments, where everything—flora, fauna, shadow, and light—interacts in harmonious yet dynamic patterns. Geometric patterns reference the inherent order present in the jungle, echoing how leaves, branches, and even the paths of rivers arrange themselves in mathematically grounded—but visually surprising—ways. The painting considers the inevitable collision between the random wildness of the untamed natural world and the regulating structures found in both nature and mathematics. It invites viewers to consider the hidden systems that give rise to biodiversity and beauty with patterns reminiscent of canopies, tangled vines, rocky outcrops and dappled sunlight. Textural differences are meant to evoke the tactile richness of jungle terrain. My hope is that viewers of this painting will consider how organic chaos can resolve into harmonious order, much like the jungle itself. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/oceanflower monthly 0.5 2025-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/57be67f4-f553-4190-ac6d-092507d0d57f/Ocean+Flower+10-25.jpg Blog - Ocean Flower - 22 in x 22 in, 11/25 I liked the patterning of “SunFire Flower”, the most recent painting that I did, so I laid down the exact same outline for this one. Instead of warm hues, however, I painted this piece with teals, aquas, blues and greens to evoke the many shades of water in the ocean. The radial symmetry and layering of segments give the composition a contemplative, almost meditative quality. My goal is for the inclusion of textural differences and variation in pattern density to keep the viewer engaged, continually discovering new interactions between shapes and colors. This painting is a celebration of the serenity found in natural aquatic environments. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/sunfireflower monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/b55e19df-bd09-4b0e-9957-1be2b6e17378/Sunfire+Flower.jpg Blog - Sunfire Flower - 22 in x 22 in, 10/25 I painted this piece in the Fall, influenced by the reds, oranges, yellows and browns of nature this time of year. My goal for this geometric piece was to use warm colors to draw the viewer’s focus toward a yellow flower-like core, fringed by oranges and reds and a brown “background” to evoke warmth and energy. I used interlocking shapes and symmetrical repetition to create a balanced, harmonious design. My hope is that the palette conveys a sense of optimism, with the painting’s heart glowing like a source of light, and the darker, earthy tones at the edges providing stability and rootedness. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/frozen monthly 0.5 2025-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/4b0bf96f-edb2-47d0-928e-230107b39e08/Snowflake+Fantasy+10-25.jpg Blog - Frozen - 13 in x 21 in, 10/25 "Frozen" is intended to interest the viewer with geometric and vibrant interplay of icy blues, purples, and silvers, invoking the delicate symmetry and crystalline complexity of a snowflake as seen through an abstract lens. The painting’s central motif radiates from the intersection of circular forms and angular shapes, conjuring a kaleidoscopic effect that references both the mathematics of nature and the meditative repetition found in mosaic art. The use of layered textures and crackled surfaces adds depth, echoing the imperfect yet wondrous formation of ice crystals, while subtle shifts in color suggest the impact of light on winter landscapes and the quietly dynamic energy of the season. A cool palette intensifies the wintry mood of the piece. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/eternalflame monthly 0.5 2025-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/eb2c5f29-a0d6-4879-b929-ac95c8057f9b/Eternal+Flame+10-25.jpg Blog - Eternal Flame - 24 in x 24 in, 10/25 My goal for this painting was to use muted warm colors to create a pattern that resembled a glowing fire. Its structure revolves around a luminous central star, rendered in yellows and golds, to make a focal point that evokes light and warmth. Surrounding the center are vibrant angular forms in fiery oranges, reds, and crimsons, which appear to ripple outward in symmetrical, rhythmic waves reminiscent of flames or heat. My goal was for the symmetrical design and geometric divisions to create a sense of stability and order, and for the color palette to bring dynamism and passion, as if the hotter middle is continually nourishing itself from the energy at the painting’s edges. Warm hues dominate the inner sections, gradually darkening into browns and muted earth tones towards the corners. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/geometrictriptychinbluesandbrowns monthly 0.5 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/a70a0b20-550c-446d-be22-e7bb26fb2f0a/Geometric+Triptych+in+Blues+and+Browns+9-25.png Blog - Geometric Triptych in Blues and Browns - 13 in x 21 in each, 9/25 My goal was to create a set of three paintings – a triptych – in geometric shapes filled with blues and browns to yield symmetry, rhythm, and chromatic harmony across three distinct yet interconnected canvases. The blues evoke tranquility, introspection, and a celestial tone, while the warm browns and golds serve to ground the work. The grid for each canvas is based on dividing the long axis into thirds, and then laying down individual grids, with the first canvas having a mixture of circular and straight lines, the second with all straight lines, and the third having only circular lines. Then I used the exact same colors to fill in the shapes across canvases. Each panel leverages cool and warm contrasts to create tension, unity, and depth. All three paintings use a mosaic of symmetric, interlocking forms with mandala dots laid down to punctuate these shapes as accent marks and to unify the triptych, guiding the eye along pathways that suggest movement and rhythm within the static symmetry. The intention of the triptych is to unfolds like a visual narrative to explore the different geometric ways of developing art using straight and circular lines. The first panel melds both approaches, looping ovoids and mandalas around symmetrical axes; the middle panel is intensely angular, radiating outward with star-like forms; the third piece is more circular and centripetal, with radiating spokes and arcs that converge and pulse from a single locus. Subtle variations in texture—matte versus glossy, smooth against rough—lend the triptych a tactile quality and serve to enhance the sense of materiality, making the paintings feel both timeless and grounded, recalling traditional mosaic techniques as well as modern abstraction. The repeated elements and precise craftsmanship speak to an underlying desire for order, connection, and resonance, inviting viewers into a meditative experience of pattern, possibility, and harmony. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/achromaticcrisscross monthly 0.5 2025-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/b8ad0288-4b4b-4053-8bc0-77d2bb615601/Achromatic+Criss+Cross+-+9-25.jpg Blog - Achromatic Criss Cross - 24 in x 24 in, 9/25 My goal for this painting was to combine shades of whites, grays, silvers and blacks into a geometric pattern consisting of symmetrical shapes laid down with rulers (for the straight lines) and compasses (for the circular shapes). The use of an “achromatic” grayscale palette is intended for viewers to focus on shape, texture and tonal shifts rather than the interplay of colors. I laid down subtle gradations of black, white, and many shades of grey, and involved some metallic paints (that have mica flakes in them to give sheen), guiding the eye along sharp diagonals and circular arcs. The finished piece is intended to balance simplicity and complexity. The finished piece reflects the tension between order and entropy. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/wedgewood monthly 0.5 2025-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/7cbce3fe-c486-449b-a45c-22f2d893bcb9/Wedgewood+9-25.jpg Blog - Wedgewood - 13 in x 21 in, 9/25 My goal for this painting was to develop a piece that was heavy in the blue-grey tones typical of Wedgewood ceramics. The piece used a variety of gray and steely blue hues organized according to a geometric pattern into crisp formations that reference the impeccable craftsmanship seen in Wedgewood pieces. The repeated patterns of triangles and squares form a rhythmic grid suggesting both stability and movement. By combining textures and fields, this composition mirrors the refined artistry and technical mastery found in original Wedgewood works, while the abstract format bridges this decorative history with contemporary expression. Overall, the artwork is a meditation on color, heritage, and mathematical beauty to comment on how tradition can be renewed through geometric abstraction. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/heraldry monthly 0.5 2025-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/56768986-8336-4817-af91-c3c63fb5b6f8/Heraldry+9-25.jpg Blog - Heraldry - 24 in x 24 in, 8/25 This composition centers on a radiant burst that expands outward to develop a dynamic sense of movement and depth. Golden yellows, ochres, burgundies, and muted oranges were used to evoke a warm sense of vibrancy. The finished product, laid down on a grid of mostly circles and arcs made with a geometric compass, hints at influences from mathematical art, Islamic tiling, or even stained glass windows. The piece is characterized by fewer colors than I normally use, but my hope was for the textured gold sections and all the mandala dotting to catch the light differently to enhance the picture’s dimensionality and energy. To me, the finished product resembled a classic medieval crest or shield, so I called it “Heraldry”. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/orangecrush monthly 0.5 2025-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/14fa8c66-83c3-45a7-a212-5723570a5339/Orange+Crush+8-25.jpg Blog - Orange Crush - 18 in x 29 in, 8/25 This painting showcases the interplay of geometric precision in warm orange and brown hues. My intent is for the symmetrical arrangement of triangles and facets to draw the viewer’s eye toward the center. The palette, anchored in oranges, golds, and browns, is intended to feel warm and cozy, reminiscent of fall foliage. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/nowiknowmyabcs monthly 0.5 2025-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/04e72c48-8dee-4a60-9427-05995e615500/Now+I+know+my+ABCs+-+8-25.jpg Blog - Now I Know my ABC’s - 13 in x 21 in, 8/25 My wife's cousin Dave and his wonderful wife Caroline had a baby son named Theo. I thought it might be nice to bring him a painting suitable for a child's room when we were heading up to meet him for the first time. This painting is actually a collaboration between my daughter and I. Julia free-formed each of the letters, and I did the rest. I hope Theo may be able to use this as he learns his ABC's! https://jadartstudio.com/blog/global monthly 0.5 2025-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/05edf6c9-e754-4300-ac81-e26fdebcea40/Global+8-25.jpg Blog - Global - 22 in x 22 in, 8/25 This painting radiates a calm, refreshing energy through its intricate mandala-like composition and harmonious palette of blues and greens. The precise geometric arrangement weaves together triangles, circles, and radiating segments, evoking imagery of rippling water, stained glass, or a stylized map of the globe. I intended that the variations in tone and texture should give the piece depth and vibrancy to make a visually captivating piece that invites peaceful contemplation and a sense of global unity. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/forestbathing monthly 0.5 2025-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/8f570622-e261-42cc-8371-81701df17b58/Forest+Bathing+8-25.jpg Blog - Forest Bathing - 13 in x 21 in, 8/25 I wanted to combine greens, browns and golds into a piece , and filled in a circlular and linear grid with many different hues of those colors. I used many “transparent acrylics”, bouncing a gnarly old brush to give texture so that some of the shapes would appear back lit. There are dozens of colors in here, and I ended up finishing the piece by stamping on circular dabs of acrylic paint in key places to give interest. The finished piece somehow reminded me of the variety of the sights, textures and feel of a forest, so I named it “Forest Bathing” https://jadartstudio.com/blog/composition monthly 0.5 2025-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/602af31d-46b8-4c34-b49f-29c7dbc9fd53/Composition+8-25.jpg Blog - Composition - 24 in x 24 in, 8/25 This painting was made with my sister Pamela in mind. She has always loved music, and has played piano since she was a child. Recently, she has become very active in writing and performing original music. A talented and highly creative person, she is energized by sharing her musical talents with others. When she told me that she was buying a new matte black grand piano, and putting into a remodeled room with olive green furniture, I decided I’d try to generate a picture that might complement that space. This painting was made using a grid composed of a mixture of circles and straight lines, filled in with at least 25 greens, golds and neutrals. I hope she (and her husband) like it, and that she will draw inspiration for her own creativity from the piece. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/cherrybomb monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/2a88e522-bbea-4084-8edb-f138abf60789/Cherry+Bomb+7-25.jpg Blog - Cherry Bomb - 13 in x 21 in, 7/25 I got in the mood to do a red painting, and this picture is almost entirely made up of various red hues (with a little Mars Black thrown in). I followed the grid, which was pretty complex, for the most part, and the end result to me looked like something shattered or exploded. Hence the name "Cherry Bomb". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/decobluesandbrowns monthly 0.5 2025-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/a81d97e1-7230-4652-b32b-c0432b590acf/Deco+Blues+and+Browns+7-25.jpg Blog - Deco Blues and Browns - 13 in x 21 in, 7/25 I had just finished “Denim Daisy”, and figured that I should do another piece using all the custom colors I had blended before they dried up and were unusable. Sarah (my wife) and I really like how blues and browns go together, so why not paint this palette on a different grid. For this painting, I got the idea to put stripes within some of the larger shapes on the perimeter. They took most of one entire weekend to do, but I like how they turned out. My daughter said “Dad, that looks so art deco”, so that’s how the name of this came about. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/denimdaisy monthly 0.5 2025-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/e0615407-7a2f-46cc-8ade-3210569e80be/Denim+Daisy+7-25.jpg Blog - Denim Daisy - 22 in x 22 in, 7/25 I painted this picture thinking of the colors of our dining room - warm browns and muted blues - colors that my wife and I find appealing together. The grid is mostly all circular arcs, laid down with geometric compasses, with some linear inserts and cross lines thrown in. At least half of the colors are custom-blended to get the right hue, and I added plenty of impasto using transparent, opaque, and metallic paints. I stamped in circular dots of different sizes and tints to complement the piece. Struggling with what to call it, my wife came up with “Denim Daisy”, so that’s how it got its name. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/americanflagbasketweave monthly 0.5 2025-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/78c0bb7b-f4e6-4872-85da-4eb1761d14e5/US+Flag+-+Basketweave+-+7-25.jpg Blog - American Flag: Basketweave - 20 in x 38 in, 6/25 I got the idea of painting the American Flag in different styles and textures. I custom-ordered canvases in the appropriate ratio of the US flag (10:19) and decided to replicate the flag in 5 variations. This one is done in a basketweave that extends throughout the piece. I kept the stars exactly the same (1.25 inch; titanium white with some impasto) between all the pieces to provide unity to the set. My goal is to respectfully represent the flag but with variations between them to make the point that although there are differences between individuals, America is unified by guiding principles of freedom, justice and equality. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/americanflagdistressed monthly 0.5 2025-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/b9e1c168-52eb-4aaf-a278-211d56cf5a7b/US+Flag+-+Distressed+-+7-25.jpg Blog - American Flag: Distressed - 20 in x 38 in, 6/25 I got the idea of painting the American Flag in different styles and textures. I custom-ordered canvases in the appropriate ratio of the US flag (10:19) and decided to replicate the flag in 5 variations. This one is done in by palette knife to give a "distressed look" to the red and white stripes and the blue. I kept the stars exactly the same (1.25 inch; titanium white with some impasto) between all the pieces to provide unity to the set. My goal is to respectfully represent the flag but with variations between them to make the point that although there are differences between individuals, America is unified by guiding principles of freedom, justice and equality. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/americanflagflow monthly 0.5 2025-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/0cf81cfa-0b2a-47ca-9183-b227a0ce3ee7/US+Flag+-+flow+-+7-25.jpg Blog - American Flag: Flow - 20 in x 38 in, 6/25 I got the idea of painting the American Flag in different styles and textures. I custom-ordered canvases in the appropriate ratio of the US flag (10:19) and decided to replicate the flag in 5 variations. I added a lot of impasto using palette knives to the blue, red and white to give the picture a "flowing" sort of look. I kept the stars exactly the same (1.25 inch; titanium white with some impasto) between all the pieces to provide unity to the set. My goal is to respectfully represent the flag but with variations between them to make the point that although there are differences between individuals, America is unified by guiding principles of freedom, justice and equality. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/americanflagspots monthly 0.5 2025-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/98d09b2f-6fe5-429b-bc82-331f212a03c1/US+Flag+-+Spots+-+7-25.jpg Blog - American Flag: Spots - 20 in x 38 in, 6/25 I got the idea of painting the American Flag in different styles and textures. I custom-ordered canvases in the appropriate ratio of the US flag (10:19) and decided to replicate the flag in 5 variations. This one is done with abundant stamped spots in the red and white stripes. I kept the stars exactly the same (1.25 inch; titanium white with some impasto) between all the pieces to provide unity to the set. My goal is to respectfully represent the flag but with variations between them to make the point that although there are differences between individuals, America is unified by guiding principles of freedom, justice and equality. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/americanflagstripes monthly 0.5 2025-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/e293b850-44aa-4619-945d-fb0054ddef5a/US+Flag+-+Stripes+-+7-25.jpg Blog - American Flag: Stripes - 20 in x 38 in, 6/25 I got the idea of painting the American Flag in different styles and textures. I custom-ordered canvases in the appropriate ratio of the US flag (10:19) and decided to replicate the flag in 5 variations. This one is done in horizontal stripes for the blue and the red and white stripes. I kept the stars exactly the same (1.25 inch; titanium white with some impasto) between all the pieces to provide unity to the set. My goal is to respectfully represent the flag but with variations between them to make the point that although there are differences between individuals, America is unified by guiding principles of freedom, justice and equality. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/pinkcouch monthly 0.5 2025-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f77a98fc-febf-4bde-92d0-eee78e7539e0/Pink+Couch+6-25.jpg Blog - Pink Couch - 22 in x 28 in, 6/25 My younger sister Pamela is a gifted songwriter, and she wrote a song for a friend who lost her daughter to cancer. For this woman, her daughter's pink couch embodied her artistic spirit, so my sister wrote a lovely and moving song about the pink couch. I was thinking of the couch when I was developing this painting which is infused with dozens of different pinks, magentas and violet shades. When Pamela found out about the painting, she told me how appropriate this painting was because her friend’s daughter was an art enthusiast. I want this picture to represent the power of creativity to add to the human spirit. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rainbowcity monthly 0.5 2025-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/fdc8372c-fd8a-45b6-bacc-1041d1b0ea40/Rainbow+City+5-25.jpeg Blog - Rainbow City - 18 in x 29 in, 5/25 I was commissioned to do a piece that I ended up calling "Prismatic Village" by a coworker who wanted a landscape-oriented painting of a prism in which each color segment was shaded darker at the bottom and lighter at the top. To do this, I blended Mars Black with the color and applied that at the bottom of the sliver, and Titanium White and applied that at the top of the sliver. For each stripe, I put down the unblended color first, and then blended the lighter or darker shade without masking. I thought this was a very cool idea, so I replicated her commissioned piece onto a larger canvas at the time I made it, figuring that I might as well since I had the custom colors all blended and ready to go anyway. Actually because this canvas was larger, it has more hues included for each color family. Instead of the bright gold impasto accents I laid down on "Prismatic Village", I mixed up an antique gold/bronze metallic color and added that instead, including stamping with circles. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/prismaticvillage monthly 0.5 2025-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/21a0cf17-5d2b-44f6-83ed-d4f4a9aeab96/Prismatic+Village+5-25.jpg Blog - Prismatic Village - 13 in x 21 in, 5/25 A colleague in clinic asked me to paint a picture that would complement a painting she had of a narrow street in what looked like an old European village, surrounded by colorful townhouse-type dwellings. Her painting looked like it came right from Cinqueterra or somewhere vibrant like that. She was drawn to my prism paintings, and asked for a vertical piece but to make the bottom of the painting darker than the top, to reference the shadowing of her original painting. I decided to lay down an extended prism (purples, blues, aquas, greens, yellows, oranges, reds and magentas in that order). For each sliver, I added a touch of Mars black to the color and applied that to the bottom, blending up without masking, and some Titanium white to the color for the top, blending that down. The effect was interesting, for each sliver of the prism actually had three distinct colors in it, all related to the same base color. I finished the piece by adding segments of bright metallic gold to reference the windows of the original painting, which I think gave the piece interest. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/achromaticrose monthly 0.5 2025-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/63c45103-eb2d-44d6-92e1-f72214dcedf1/Achromatic+Rose+5-25.jpg Blog - Achromatic Rose - 24 in x 24 in, 5/25 I was in a black, white and gray mood, and had the idea of a swirling pattern that resembled the petals of a rose. I laid down pencil lines free-hand and then used them more as suggestions than as a rule when I masked in the color blocks. There are probalby 15-20 different neutrals and silver tones in the piece. The trouble with this painting is that it was hard to know when to be finished. I kept adding shapes on top of prior ones to refine the work. Finally, I just called it done! https://jadartstudio.com/blog/pinsandneedles monthly 0.5 2025-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/48b37752-f472-42a9-890a-cf297ba9746b/Pins+and+Needles+4-25.jpg Blog - Pins and Needles - 24 in (diameter) circle, 4/25 This painting is essentially an ombre from white to black laid down in dots of increasing diameter going from the center of a circle to the perimeter. I first painted the canvas with a blend of Titanium White blended on the canvas with Payne’s Grey. Then starting from the perimeter, I stamped sequential rows of circular dots down onto the canvas, working from outside to center. I decided to name the piece “Pins and Needles” because the final piece looked like little nails on end hammered into the canvas. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/equilibriumneutral monthly 0.5 2025-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/88c81c99-959b-4892-a5b3-88dae0765db4/Equilibrium+Neutral.jpg Blog - Equilibrium Neutral - 22 in x 28 in, 4/25 This painting incorporates 5 "layers" of ombre greys starting at the periphery of the piece. I tried to unify the painting by mirroring dark and lighter silver shapes laid down with intentional impasto from the center toward each mid-point of the canvas's edge, and filled in the rest with other neutral colors including titanium white and mars black. To finish, I inserted "insets" into some of the larger shapes and stamped on circles of color here and there where I thought they would be effective. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/fstop monthly 0.5 2025-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/fd4e2ffa-3115-4425-af61-432df35ea04d/F+Stop+4-25.jpg Blog - F Stop - 15 in x 18 in, 4/25 This piece is made up of several neutral colors mixed in with various shades of rich blues. I used a variety of approaches to fill in the grid to yield different textures and effects. The canvas for this was Belgian linen, which usually is a treat to paint on, but for some reason the surface of the canvas lacked enough holding power to adhere some of the squares of paint that would come up unintentionally when I masked in an adjacent shape, so there are probably dozens and dozens of touch-ups in the final piece. I stamped on the dots after the piece was finished. My daughter said it reminded her of a camera, so I chose “F Stop” as the title. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/othello monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1102cc29-4221-4ad6-a40c-b11636338689/Neutral+Matrix+4-25.jpg Blog - Othello - 24 in x 24 in, 4/25 The grid was simple - one inch squares, 24 along each axis, meaning that there are 576 different squares in the piece, each filled in with a different shade of gray. As it was developing, it reminded me of a matrix grid. I decided to finish the painting with black or white dots, spaced fairly equidistantly across the painting. While the finished painting doesn’t really have a focal point, my goal here was to convey a sense of “business” to represent modern day society. We’re all different, but all interconnected in the big matrix of community. When my daughter saw it, she said it reminded her of the board game “Othello”, so I decided to call it that. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/sunshield monthly 0.5 2025-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/263e388a-e623-4b59-8e3b-0792e955f88e/Warm+Glow+3-25.jpg Blog - Sun Shield - 24 in (diameter) circle, 3/25 I wanted to evoke the sun in this painting, starting in the center with yellows and then radiating out into the oranges and reds. I was frustrated by the lack of adherence of paint to this canvas, such that when I masked in a subsequent color, prior colors would peel off the canvas onto the back of the tape (even low-tack tape). Once in a while a canvas comes along that has this unfortunate tendency, and I've learned some "tricks" to deal with this such as using mainly transparent colors and laying down paint with some faint impasto to hide the hundreds of touch-ups that inevitably need to happen to finish the piece. I also added stamped dots to the piece where I thought they made sense. I can't remember another canvas with worse retention than this one, and I was grateful when the piece was finished and I could varnish everything in place! https://jadartstudio.com/blog/hubble monthly 0.5 2025-04-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/12704c1c-ecaa-4e73-bc38-86055fcb443e/Hubble+3-25.jpg Blog - Hubble - 24 in x 24 in, 3/25 This painting is all about steely grays and blues. The grid I laid down was fairly complex, and I filled it in with probably three dozen distinct blues, whites and grays, including many custom blue/gray colors using Titanium White, Ultramarine and Payne’s Gray in various proportions to make an ombre effect. It has a fair share of metallic paints, some made custom by incorporating finely ground mica dust into transparent colors and gloss acrylic medium. I also used glazing to overlay silvers and whites with diluted Ultramarine or Phthalo blue. I was going for a "space" kind of look, and when my daughter saw it, she said it reminded her of the Hubble telescope. Fair enough, so I named it "Hubble". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/hvalati monthly 0.5 2025-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/97e9cad7-4f15-44b9-8442-a62fb6f521d0/Hvala+Ti+-+3-25.jpg Blog - Hvala Ti - 10 in x 20 in, 3 /2025 A gifted technician in my laboratory left the lab to start medical school. Her personal story is remarkable - the daughter of immigrants whose sister overcame lymphoma and who personally perservered to get accepted to med school. A wonderful person to work with, she identifies very strongly with her Bosnian roots. I decided to paint the Bosnian flag for her to thank her for all she's contributed to our research mission. Instead of leaving the blue and yellow just individual hues, I tried to contribute my "style" to the work by adding geometric shapes and multiple hues of each color. The canvas conforms to the official length by height ratio (2-to-1) of the flag. I hope that she is pleased with the final product. "Hvala Ti" means "Thank You" in Bosnian. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/onefineday monthly 0.5 2025-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/a1f3b700-c4f5-4697-bfe5-837fcc7e6676/Emerald+Matrix+3-25.jpg Blog - One Fine Day - 13 in x 21 in, 3 /2025 I tend to paint seasonally, so when March rolls around, I think "green". Green for the new Spring growth, and green for St. Patrick's day. This picture was made in March while I was thinking of all things green. There are at least thirty different greens in the piece, and I intentionally made a complex grid laid down using geometric compasses and rulers. I finished the piece by adding small green dots here and there to the piece. There are metallic paints and several transparent paints laid down with a "bounce-the-brush" impasto technique. When my daughter saw it, she said it reminded her of the Emerald City from the Wizard of Oz, so we named it “One Fine Day” in honor of the song from “Wicked”. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/fourdirections monthly 0.5 2025-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/65959ec0-fe3b-4136-9883-ef672d15ae30/Four+Directions+2-25.jpg Blog - Four Directions - 22 in x 22 in, 3/25 I envisioned this painting hanging in the dining room, which is made up of blues and browns. I laid down circles complemented with straight lines for the grid, then used a lot of "transparent" acrylics, bouncing them with an old worn-out brush to get a textured, glowing look. There are also plenty of opaque blues and browns, as well as metallics. For some of the lighter opaque colors, I glazed them with glossy diluted acrylics to darken the hues and to give interest. Finally, I incorporated insets and dots to the piece. I decided to call it "Four Directions" because when it was finished, the corners looked a bit like ordinates on a map. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/airflow monthly 0.5 2025-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/56f9f2c2-bea2-48a9-9158-781292715b80/Air+Flow+2-25.jpg Blog - Air Flow - 22 in x 28 in, 2/25 Thinking of how to represent "air" on a canvas, I went with horizontal stripes envisioning air flowing. I used many different hues of whites, and also "interference" colors that look shimmery when viewed askew in the light. The painting incorporates impasto (textured) effects, aided by acrylic modeling paste as well as heavy gloss gel. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/skydiamonds monthly 0.5 2025-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/3a2b2312-a110-4b11-bcbc-6e76f3efa33a/Sky+Diamonds+2-25.jpg Blog - Sky Diamonds - 13 in x 21 in, 2/25 I painted this piece thinking of a way to visualize "air". I laid down diagonally-oriented tape in both directions, filled in the holes with acrylic molding paste intentionally leaving the shapes rough, and then painted them with interference colors that look shimmery when viewed from the side. This one you have to see in person to appreciate it. The background is made of at least six different whites. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/interferenceair monthly 0.5 2025-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/287d76eb-bb3a-4dde-b6a8-acae1108962a/Interference+Air+2-25.jpg Blog - Interference Air - 18 in x 29 in, 2/25 I painted this picture with the intent that it would be part of a"Natural Elements" exhibition which would feature paintings related to "Fire", "Water", "Land", "Space" and "Air". Here I tried to depict "air", which is quite a challenge considering air is usually transparent and colorless. I chose to use varying shades of white, with some textured shapes and others overlaid with "interference" colors which look uninspiring head-on but then develop a subtle colored shimmer when looked at from an angle. I put in interference blue, violet and red and laid down the shapes lengthwise horizontally thinking about a sunset sky. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/terrafirma monthly 0.5 2025-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f230428d-386f-4adf-81b5-b50e2af55a3b/Terra+Firma+1-25.jpg Blog - Terra Firma - 22 in x 22 in, 2/25 This symmetrical piece was made to honor the colors and textures of "land", mostly featuring the greens and browns of a forest. The grid is a combination of circles and arcs with straight lines, and I incorporated glazing into some of the patterns. I chose to put in a lot of texture and quite a few inserts and dots to give the painting more character. I "tidied it up" by putting cross-lines on the diagonals and midpoints edge-to-edge. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/shatteredice monthly 0.5 2025-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/6d77ee04-b7e8-4797-bd23-3473a61e689a/Shattered+Ice+1-25.jpg Blog - Shattered Ice - 13 in x 21 in, 1/2025 In this painting, I explored a few new techniques and textural effects. I used glazing to put a very thin wash of phthalo blue over 2 different silvers - one silver laid down flat (in which the wash puddled over the surface) and another silver laid down with impasto (in which the blue highlighted the texture already there). I used silver foil in about seven of the segments to stand out like a mirror. Finally, I applied diamond dust - a mixture of very thin glass shard pieces - and small glass beads over some of the shapes to give texture. The finished product, with it's whites, silvers and blues, gave me the impression of a very cold day and ice breaking, so I called the piece "Shattered Ice". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/melaninmotion monthly 0.5 2025-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9497d2a8-bfa8-4ece-99d3-ad49adb9d107/Melanin+Motion+1-25.jpg Blog - Melanin Motion - 24 in x 24 in, 1/25 This painting is about trying to convey a sense of motion using the palette of human skin complexions. Most of it is an ombre of custom colors made out of burnt umber (dark brown) and unbleached titanium (a buff tan color). I used a sliding triangle arranged from the centerpoint of the canvas, in increments of 5 degrees to fan out the triangles. These became the focal point of the painting, and I filled in the rest with complementary browns and tans - again making several customized colors to carry on the ombre look. For example, the "black" really is Van Dyke Brown, and the inserts in the large Van Dyke Brown triangles are simply Van Dyke Brown mixed with increasing amounts of titanium white. I added impasto to make the piece more interesting. The final section I did was the 4 segments that used liquid acrylics to then drag out lines intended to reference motion. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/melaninshield monthly 0.5 2025-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/a08cacd4-3a83-41c6-87aa-8e5d998e9bd5/Melanin+Shield+1-25.jpg Blog - Melanin Shield - 22 in (diameter) circle, 1/25 I had been exploring painting on circular canvases, and decided to create a piece inspired by human skin complexions. The grid was laid down with 3 different sized geometric compasses, so none of the primary shapes in the piece have a straight line. Dozens of browns and neutrals were used to fill in the grid, and I decided to put in insets in the form of lines and shapes for visual interest. When I showed it to my daughter, she said "it looks like a shield", so that's how it got its name. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/fitzpatrickgrid monthly 0.5 2025-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/c073181e-5aca-4e4b-8273-1b037664bd38/Fitzpatric+Matrix+1-25.jpg Blog - Fitzpatrick Grid - 12 in x 36 in, 1/25 This piece was painted to represent the 6 ranges of human skin tones, arranged from type I (fairest) to VI (darkest), as originally described by Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick, a dermatologist. The canvas is an "extreme rectangle" shape, basically in a 3-to-1 ratio for length and width. The grid was laid down starting in the corners and going through center each way, and then adding onto the grid with a ruler to keep the triangular shapes all the same size. I then filled in the matrix one Fitzpatrick scale tone at a time, each using anywhere between 8-12 distinct shades of tans and browns. I had thought of blurring the boundries between tones a bit more to make the piece less choppy, but decided in the end that keeping color families distinct better conveyed the concept of Fitzpatrick scale. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/inmotion monthly 0.5 2025-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/c453502b-c232-4a86-a4cd-af3b4897a8d8/In+Motion+12-24.jpg Blog - In Motion - 22 in (diameter) circle, 11/24 What this painting lacks in vibrant colors it makes up for in textures and bling. My inspiration for this piece was a wheel in motion, and I used many different neutral colors - whites, blacks, grays and silvers in the work. I also used an adjustable drafting triangle to lay down the triangles from center, each offset by 5 degrees in progression. I then filled them in with an ombre of grays to start out the painting and then the rest followed. There are a lot of insets in the shapes, and I laid down a ton of impasto (texture) using palette knives of different sizes and shapes and some stiff old brushes that are perfect for texture but not so much for smoother applications. The center circle I decided to fill in with liquid acrylics and then to swirl it so that it also looked like it was in motion. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/fireinthehole monthly 0.5 2024-12-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/208baacc-9227-44ce-8872-9e9ec40793a6/Fire+in+the+Hole+12-24.jpg Blog - Fire in the Hole - 22 in x 22 in, 12/24 I envisioned fire when I created this painting, but instead of putting the light color (yellow) in the center, I decided to flip things so that the piece would go from dark in the middle to light on the edges. The effect made me think of a flame emerging out of a central hole. The grid was laid down using a combination of straight and circular lines. Basically, there are 5 separate circular areas, filled in with browns (in the center), then burgundies/dark reds, then lighter reds, then oranges and finally yellows and golds around the perimeter. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/cosmicweb monthly 0.5 2024-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/5d155926-1f41-4c14-bd2d-298a739a3147/Cosmic+Web+12-24.jpg Blog - Cosmic Web - 24 in x 24 in, 12/24 I wanted this one to look like something from outer space, and I envisioned some galactic structure brighter in the middle and then fading to dark at the periphery. The grid is a combination of arcs and straight lines, and I went from pinks to reds to magentas to purples to blues and blacks at the edges. The painting has dozens of different colors and textures in it using a mix of opaque, transparent and metallic acrylic paints. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/sunflower monthly 0.5 2024-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1715be80-251a-4349-ab71-ce60190c81cc/Sun+Flower+12-24.jpg Blog - Sun Flower - 24 in x 24 in, 12/24 I used two geometric compasses - one large and one small - to lay down the grid for this painting. I decided to use only circular lines for the main grid, by drawing circles from a few different axis points - one at the center point of the painting, and then others half way between center and the four corners. The shape immediately reminded me of a daisy-like flower with cascading petals, and I decided to do the piece in yellows and golds. There are 24 different yellows/golds in the painting, and I reserved the metallic hues for insets of the shapes in between the "petals". The palette goes from lighter yellows in the center to darker ones (almost bordering orange) toward the periphery. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/crusade monthly 0.5 2024-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/6624564d-5d42-4e27-8cae-00d4f907c591/Crusade+11-24.jpg Blog - Crusade - 22 in x 22 in, 11/24 My goal here was to create a picture in muted warm tones to highlight golds, ochres, burgundies and browns. The grid is a combination of circular shapes and straight lines and I painted it with blocks of color in mind, putting yellow in the center edged by orange or red and then brown along the border. When the piece was done, I liked it but I had a hard time naming it, so I hung it on the wall for a few days and kept coming back to it to look at it and get a sense of what it reminded me of. After looking at it for a few days, I decided it reminded me of a banner or flag from the Crusades, so I called it "Crusade". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/ononuofk monthly 0.5 2024-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/96423916-f423-4cbd-8d0a-cf7e1f63ab4d/On+On+U+of+K+11-24.jpg Blog - On, On, U of K - 22 in x 22 in, 11/24 This painting pays homage to the University of Kentucky, where I've worked for twenty years at the time it was created. To make it, I downloaded the official UK logo from their website, blew it up and traced it onto the canvas. I bordered the piece with blocks of different hues and textures of blues, and filled in the center with whites. The interlocking U and K of the logo were challenging to replicate crisply. I added thin blue lines between the border and the logo to complement the white space and to give interest. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/meltingpot monthly 0.5 2024-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/674f6641-6ba1-48e7-a98d-4135f982831e/Melting+Pot+-+11-24.jpg Blog - Melting Pot - 20 in x 38 in, 11/24 The idea behind this piece was to honor the diversity of the American population. We are a nation made up of a rich mix of different cultures and backgrounds. In thinking about how to represent this, I came up with the idea of replicating the American flag in different hues of human skin complexion. So, I ordered a custom sized canvas to match the 1:1.9 ration of the US flag. The dark navy of the flag is replaced with VanDyke brown, and the red and white stripes are laid down with light and dark shades of brown to pay homage to individuals with light and dark skin complexions. Finally, I chose to do an ombre of browns from light to dark for the fifty stars that represent the US states. I used glazing and impasto techniques to give the painting a "historic" feel. I realize that doing anything that alters the iconic image of the American flag is risky, but my intention here is to celebrate the multicultural fabric of America in this painting. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/dancebluekaleidoscope monthly 0.5 2024-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/db08feba-c8a4-4d26-9d41-08d35fd560d0/DanceBlue+Kaleidoscope+11-24.jpg Blog - DanceBlue Kaleidoscope - 22 in (diameter) circle, 11/24 This is the first painting I've done on a circular canvas, so in keeping with the circular theme, I laid down a grid using only a geometric compass so that there would be no straight lines. I did end up putting in "insets" into some of the larger shapes that do have straight lines, but the theme here is circles. The patterning and color palette reflect the blue and gold colors of the DanceBlue philanthropic organization that supports pediatric hematology/oncology where I work. The final piece reminded me of a kaleidoscope, hence the title. This piece will be donated to the 2025 DanceBlue silent auction in support of our patients. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/fallkaleidoscope monthly 0.5 2024-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/57f50449-da2d-4201-82cc-b323325b2c9f/Fall+Kaleidoscope+11-24.jpg Blog - Fall Kaleidoscope - 24 in x 24 in, 11/24 My goal for this piece was to lay down a grid of circular and straight lines and then to fill it in with muted fall colors of burgundies, golds, rusty oranges and browns. I added inserts of colors to many of the larger shapes and then finished the piece with straight gold lines going from the edges through the center. It reminded me of an image you might see looking through a kaleidoscope when it was finished. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/geometriccomplexions monthly 0.5 2024-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/b3b436ae-b805-440d-ac51-f578dc703b1e/Geometric+Complexions+11-24.jpg Blog - Geometric Complexions - 21 in x 34 in, 11/24 I based the coloring of this painting on human skin complexions, trying to highlight the beauty of diversity of pigmentation. The pattern was laid down with a mix of straight lines, arcs and circles using rulers and geometric compasses. I filled in the grid with a mix of opaque, transparent and metallic acrylics, many of them custom made. The Van Dyke Brown patches along the edge didn't look quite right as flat, so I bounced an old brush with plenty of paint on it to give them a lot of texture. Since this piece really leaned heavy on geometry for its development, I decided to call it "Geometric Complexions". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/harlequin monthly 0.5 2024-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f79ecf60-d3a9-4288-8107-3ffb175e7a1e/Harlequin+10-24.jpg Blog - Harlequin - 24 in x 24 in, 10/24 There are no straight lines in this painting, except of course for the outer edges of the square canvas. The grid was laid down entirely using geometric compasses, aligning the points in the center and drawing arcs from regular intervals on the edges. As the grid was coming together, I saw concentric shapes emerging from the center, rather like the petals of a daisy. It took me a while to settle on a color theme for the painting, being naturally drawn to white petals and a yellow center, but I kept coming back to a vision of light pinks and blues in an ombre'd manner (so with purple and magenta in between). The background mimicked that theme, but I made the colors dark so that the petals of the shape would stand out. Rather than straight darker versions of each of the pastel colors, I muted them with browns, throwing in transparent paints and some impasto along the way. I added the little iridescent white dots to the tips of each of the "petals" to match the center disc which I laid down in various whites. My daughter commented that it reminded her of a jester's hat, so I decided to call it "Harlequin" in honor of the classic jester's costume in the commedia dell'arte, an early form of professional theatre from Italy. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/flames monthly 0.5 2024-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/d24670c9-657d-4d36-9793-9feca64cc762/Flames+10-24.jpg Blog - Flames - 22 in x 28 in, 10/24 The inspiration for this piece was a starburst pattern but spaced out so that I could put triangular insets at the base of each segment. I felt the grid would be best filled in with hot intense colors - reds, oranges and yellows - and the end result reminded me of flames. The challenge with this piece was the thinness of the segments toward the center of the painting, and I found that taping over the inset shapes did not work. Rather, I painted the insets first, then added the reds/oranges, painting right over the insets with the reds/oranges. When dry, I taped off the insets and then colored them in with yellows/golds. I added the insets with fairly heavy impasto not only because some of the yellows were semi-opaque (requiring a thick layer of application) but also to disguise any irregularities in texture. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/pianoforte monthly 0.5 2024-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/95db70d9-df3b-4f48-b7d3-4bc5bad91aa7/Piano+Forte+10-24.jpg Blog - Piano Forte - 36 in x 48 in, 10/24 One of my dearest friends from fellowship asked me to develop two paintings that would fit in with the colors and themes of his home - one for the living room and one for the dining room. This one is the picture for his living room to be positioned immediately behind a beautiful black baby grand piano. The room's colors are ivory, white, black, some brown, some dark reds, neutrals and golds. He chose a starburst pattern, and I used dozens of colors related to the ones in his room, laying them down one by one in a pattern that I thought looked effective, particularly by juxtaposing darks against lights. There are plenty of metallic colors in it to make them pop, and I used several "transparent" paints by applying them in a bouncy, uneven manner to give the impression of being backlit. There are dozens of colors in the piece, including many custom hues. I even developed a new technique to “marble” a color by mixing transparent acrylics with medium and applying them with impasto in layers. When I thought about what to call it, I kept coming back to it's intended position above the piano in the room. I called it "Piano Forte" in reference to that, but also because the colors in the piece are a mix of soft and strong tones, which is literally what "piano forte" means in Italian. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/gathertogether monthly 0.5 2024-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/955d1ced-b674-49f1-94e1-b0f829d79df1/Gather+Together+10-24.jpg Blog - Gather Together - 24 in x 30 in, 10/24 One of my dearest friends from fellowship asked me to develop two paintings that would fit in with the colors and themes of his home - one for the living room and one for the dining room. This one is the picture for his dining room, which has dark sage walls with ivory trim, a wood floor and a beautiful wooden table with an orange-red finish. He chose a fairly straightforward painting I had done to base this one off of ("All Melanins are Beautiful"), but when I laid down the grid on the canvas, I realized that the pattern didn't transpose well to the larger sized canvas he wanted. So I came up with the idea of insets inside each of the larger shapes, made up of the same color as the larger shape but mixed with either black or white to give interest. I also decided to lay down the insets with texture by bouncing the paint on the canvas and applying it with an old brush whose bristles had gotten splayed with use (turns out these brushes are the best for applying acrylic impasto in my work). I titled the piece "Gather Together" in recognition of the dining room in which it would be hung - a sacred place where family and friends convene to share good food, good conversation and good company. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/emeraldcity monthly 0.5 2024-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/8470e6fb-b37d-42b7-b393-fce030097c1d/Emerald+City+9-24.jpg Blog - Emerald City - 24 in x 24 in, 9/24 I was in the mood for green when I painted this one! There are 30 different green hues incorporated into this piece – a mix of transparent, opaque and metallic acrylics, applied in mixed manner with some colors going on smooth, others “bounced on” to give the illusion of being backlit, and others applied with intentional impasto . The grid was laid down largely in circles using a compass, with some straight lines added where I thought they should go. When I first thought of the concept of the painting, I was planning on calling it "Jade Fox”, but after it started coming together, it reminded me more of the Emerald City from the Wizard of Oz. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/whatsupbuttercup monthly 0.5 2024-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/3d7dfd82-458a-4aaa-a3a8-439307677cd8/Whats+Up+Buttercup+9-24.jpg Blog - What’s Up, Buttercup? - 14 in x 21 in, 9/24 I made this painting to go into the seasonal rotation for the wall in our house between the kitchen and the familiy room for late summer, trying to capture the hues and beauty of sunshine. As it happens, one of my patient's favorite colors is yellow, and she always greets me with "What's Up, Buttercup?" in our clinic visits, so with that in mind, I named it that. The grid is a combination of straight lines and circles, which I think makes the piece interesting. I added some small dots with a shimmery white golden color at the end to highlight some of the intersections. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/aquablossom monthly 0.5 2024-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/13c0b58a-b3a9-4ac9-86c1-df04bc872962/Aqua+Blossom+9-24.jpg Blog - Aqua Blossom - 24 in x 24 in, 9/24 Having just done a lot of neutral/brown paintings for the Complexion series, I was in the mood to do a different color palette. This one is done in cool tones - aquas, teals, blues and greens, and the pattern I laid down makes use of quite a few circles, which ended up giving the piece a daisy-like feel to it. There is a lot of impasto in the piece, particularly with the metallic colors, which can really be appreciated when viewed in person. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/humanitygradient monthly 0.5 2024-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/2247b45d-82e6-4e19-ac4a-1f5a6980a557/Humanity+Gradient+9-24.jpg Blog - Humanity Gradient - 14 in x 28 in, 9/24 The idea here was to lay down a base layer of a neutral grey color with a palette knife, and to lay it down thick with heavy impasto (texture). It took a full two days to dry - an eternity for acrylic paint! Then, I used a large mop brush to dab the surface with varying shades of light-to-dark browns each referencing a hue of human skin complexion. I went from color to color with the mop brush without even cleaning it, relying on blending and mixing on the painting to add interest to the ombre effect. Throughout the piece, the grey background is visible at certain angles because the surface colors were dabbed on rather than applied fully. To me, the piece represents the complexity of humanity - that each of us is basically the same underneath, that each of us matters no matter what color our skin is, and that each of us has our own unique "bumps" that add to our individuality. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/lilyp monthly 0.5 2024-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/aab54ac3-ff57-43f1-b1f9-d21ed142390e/Lily+P+9-24.jpg Blog - Lily P - 13 in x 21 in, 9/2024 In our house, there is a sliver of wall between the kitchen and the family room that we rotate paintings throughout the year based on the seasons or holidays. Typically we put 13 in x 21 in pieces in this space - one of my favorite canvas sizes that just so happens to conform to the “Fibonacci ratio”. I painted this picture using the colors of a Lily Pulitzer pattern, with the idea that it would make a nice Spring rotation piece for that space. It was fun to do this painting because I had just done a lot of brown paintings and this one gave me the opportunity to incorporate vivid and bright colors. I don’t often have the the chance to use fluorescent pink in a painting, so this was certainly a distinctive feature of this piece. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/neopolitancomplexioncircles monthly 0.5 2024-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/0092466b-9f3c-4cf7-b362-88b496fe1f0e/Neopolitan+Complexion+Circles+8-24.jpg Blog - Neopolitan Complexion Circles - 14 in x 28 in, 8/2024 I envisioned floating circles of complexion colors in a neutral metallic background. I was thinking of the feathering of the dark and light icing of Neapolitan eclairs, and used this technique for the colors within the cicle. To date, this is the only time I’ve painted by a Kebab barbeque skewer. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/complexionringsii monthly 0.5 2024-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/b2636107-4f74-4375-ba0d-266f3086fc49/Complexion+Rings+II+8-24.jpg Blog - Complexion Rings II - 24 in x 24 in, 8/2024 The sister painting to "Complexion Rings - I", "Complexion Rings - II" is basically a mirror image of its partner. Instead of the colors loosely arranged from dark to light (from the center to the edges), the colors went from light to dark instead. The same order but the other way around. I find it interesting to consider the paintings as a pair because the "feel" of them is different even though the exact same colors are being used in the exact same pattern except the color sequence is inverted. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/complexionringsi monthly 0.5 2024-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/999a76c6-2107-44e2-9a41-f43d3ff0f1ae/Complexion+Rings+I+8-24.jpg Blog - Complexion Rings I - 24 in x 24 in, 8/2024 After painting the "Fitzpatrick Deconstructed" set and having many custom colors made up to pay homage to the many skin tones of human pigmentation, I had the idea of doing a square painting made up of concentric circles. To do this, I laid down a straight line from one corner to its opposite corner, and then divided that line (from the centerpoint) into 1 cm blocks (42 from the center to the corners). Then, I used geometric compasses to intersect the centimeter points to make circles of increasing size all the way to the edge of the canvas. I then filled in the circles one color at a time, going from dark to light for "Complexion Rings - I" and going from light to dark for "Complexion Rings - II". The colors are intentionally copied in sequence from the one painting to the other, but I purposely did not lay them down in a pure light-to-dark sequence for artistic interest. The circles remind me of tree rings. As the age of a tree can be estimated by counting the rings, so can our society be represented by the many individuals who add richness and distinctiveness with their own unique skin complexions. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/fitzpatrickdeconstructed monthly 0.5 2024-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/cb8738ce-91b9-41f2-a8f9-ccc04bb7255b/Fitzpatrick+deconstructed+8-24+-+smaller+still.png Blog - Fitzpatrick Deconstructed - 13 in x 21 in (each, x6), 8/2024 Human skin tone can be described on a relative scale, first proposed by Thomas Fitzpatrick, a dermatologist in 1975. The very lightest complexions can be grouped into “Fitzpatrick type I”, the very darkest complexions into “Fitzpatrick type VI”, and everthing else lies somewhere in between. I had the idea of doing a sextet of canvases, each with the exact same pattern laid down, and coordinating colors between canvases. To do this, I took one shade of brown, for example, and kept adding either a light color like titanium white or a dark color like Payn'e’s gray, and then used the same base color across canvases to fill in the pattern in the same order. Having related colors repeated across canvases (but in darker or lighter hues) also helps unify the piece. I chose to add bright silver in a textured application to unify the group, again matching the pattern across canvases. I thought the bright silver looked good across the entire Fitzpatrick spectrum so that each Fitzpatrick canvas would look beautiful on its own. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/melaninsymmetry monthly 0.5 2025-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/e580e555-4f79-45f3-bf80-98fb9dac669c/Melanin+Symmetry+8-24.jpg Blog - Melanin Symmetry - 22 in x 22 in, 8/2024 Thinking of the many hues of natural human skin complexion, my goal was to create a pleasing symmetric piece by first laying down a geometric grid of circular shapes and then by inserting "insets" into some of the shapes to add complexity to the piece. The painting is a metaphor of how diverse individuals can come together synergistically and cooperatively to together make something noteworthy. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/wovenpigmentspotlight monthly 0.5 2024-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/b8ddf481-3765-4154-a982-d6e78d9f3157/Woven+Pigment+Spotlight+8-24.jpg Blog - Woven Pigment Spotlight - 22 in x 22 in, 8/2024 This is the "sister" painting to "Melanin Symmetry" in that essentially all of the central colors of this painting are included in the other piece. Hues were chosen based on the many different skin tones of human complexions with my intention to illustrate how something beautiful can come out of a collaboration of diverse complexions. The ombre dark silver metallic edging was intended to "spotlight" the central diamond of the many tones and the impasto cutouts were added to unify the elements of the piece. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/bluenova monthly 0.5 2024-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9884e6ec-7074-4d51-a7be-254fcc1aaf6f/Blue+Nova+7-24.jpg Blog - Blue Nova - 18 in x 29 in, 7/2024 Having done a few neutral tone pieces for the Complexion series, I had a hankering to do one in rich, saturated colors. Not remembering that I had ever done one in blues and purples, I decided to make a geometric piece using these colors. The grid is laid down with straight lines and circles. I must have been "off" just a hair on one of the vertices, because the center ended up being slightly askew, but I actually liked how it turned out (one of Bob Ross's "happy little accidents" I guess), so I left it that way. The finished piece reminded me of a space theme, so I called it "Blue Nova". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/awaveofpigment monthly 0.5 2024-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/950551f4-93fa-4026-ae3a-d8cd6a2a9b1f/A+Wave+of+Pigment+7-24.jpg Blog - A Wave of Pigment - 14 in x 28 in, 7/2024 This aboriginal-inspired piece uses different shades of neutrals that reflect the many colors of human skin complexions. It started with laying down an S-shaped curve made by a geometric compass originating at the quarter-marks of the long vertices of the rectangular canvas and passing through the center of the canvas. This piece, unlike most of my paintings, was done without a grid. Rather, I used dot applicators of varying diameter to lay down alternating colors, simply following the S curve and going from larges dots in the middle to progressively smaller dots to the edges. I alternated dark colors with light colors to provide interest and structure to the design. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/monarch monthly 0.5 2024-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/34995eef-4e61-4f2f-801c-5b66aa4a2214/Monarch+7-24.jpg Blog - Monarch - 24 in x 24 in, 7/2024 I painted this picture of a monarch butterfly in response to a local call for art put out by the city of Lexington. Their “Art by Nature” program is designed to highlight the beauty of landscapes and plants in Fayette County, KY (where Lexington is). The 2024 exhibit focused on monarch waystations - gardens designed to support monarch butterflies. I got the idea of actually doing a representational image of a monarch butterfly, having recently done one of a blue morpho butterfly in a geometric style to honor the memory of a young woman who died of cancer (memorial walk). I started by finding a suitable image of a monarch butterfly on line, then transposing it onto canvas by tracing, and then developing a blue background of diamonds and the bulk of the butterfly by a complex combination of orange triangles, black outlines and white dots, drawing inspiration from photos of monarch butterflies that I found on line. The project was done in essentially four stages: (1) tracing the butterfly onto the canvas and laying down a geometric grid, (2) filling in the blue background, (3) filling in the orange wings, and finally (4) adding dots and wing veins and doing touch-ups. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/timeformelanin monthly 0.5 2025-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/4c999b7f-cd4d-4c8c-afc1-6c2e393c6a0e/Time+for+Melanin+7-24.jpg Blog - Time for Melanin - 13 in x 21 in, 7/2024 The grid for this painting is a combination of circles, arcs and straight lines, filled in with varying shades to represent the many different but complementary hues of human complexions. The finished piece reminded me of the face of a clock so I called it “Time for Melanin". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/facetedcomplexions monthly 0.5 2024-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1242306d-38da-4639-8772-cf70a1d06119/Faceted+Complexions+7-24.jpg Blog - Faceted Complexions - 13 in x 21 in, 6/2024 I developed this piece to be part of a larger group of paintings highlighting how beautiful different natural human complexions can be when combined together in interesting ways. There are about two dozen different brown colors embedded in this geometric grid, arranged in a symmetric pattern on a Fibonacci ratio sized canvas (conforms to the “golden ratio”). https://jadartstudio.com/blog/incrementalpigmentation monthly 0.5 2024-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/0e38a313-267d-48d0-984f-9c2a13b84c0f/Incremental+Pigmentation+6-24.jpg Blog - Incremental Pigmentation - 13 in x 21 in, 6/2024 I almost called this one “Black, White and Four Browns”, because that’s really what it is – a gradual mixing of dark to light browns in linear sequence to capture the subtle differences in hues from dark to light, with overlays of a gradient of grays. My daughter came up with the name “Incremental Pigment” when she saw it in person, and I thought that name was better. I made the painting thinking about melanin and human complexion, and in response to my wife saying I should do a piece that gradually went from the darkest of complexions to the lightest. However, instead of just having one large gradient across a canvas, I chose to lay down four in parallel and going in opposing directions. I added the impasto grays to add interest and to represent the process of aging, thinking of how our hair grays over time as our hair follicles lose the ability to add melanin as we grow older https://jadartstudio.com/blog/complexionpatchwork monthly 0.5 2024-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/ed89b3ca-b57c-46ec-ae37-c222b445f160/Complexion+Patchwork+6-24.jpg Blog - Complexion Patchwork - 21 in x 34 in, 6/2024 The premise of this piece was a symmetric geometric pattern made up of relatively large shapes painted with various shades of neutral colors reflecting the various tones of human skin complexions. I decided to then put central inserts in many of the shapes and lighten the darks with a little titanium white or darken the lights with a little mars black within each. So each inset is actually the color of the larger shape, but with either a little black or white mixed in to alter the hue. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/pigmentstarburst monthly 0.5 2024-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/46723bed-6580-4923-b385-1ed4d8c2d20d/Pigment+Starburst+6-24.jpg Blog - Pigment Starburst - 24 in x 24 in, 6/2024 This is the sister painting to “Melanin Stripes” but instead of arranging the lines in parallel, I put them down in a starburst patter to create a radial explosion of color. The biggest challenge to this one was that the thin parts of the colors nearest the center tended to pull up with the tape, so there were a lot of touchups near the center of the piece. This was one of three paintings I worked on simultaneously since I had many custom colors mixed up and wanted to do a few paintings based on colors of human complexions. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/melaninstripes monthly 0.5 2024-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f4aa1eb9-313b-4260-b308-a51cf8b51074/Melanin+Stripes+6-24.jpg Blog - Melanin Stripes - 14 in x 28 in, 6/2024 This painting is made up of dozens of different neutral tones chosen based on their similarity to colors found naturally in human complexions. Each color is laid down in horizontal (or vertical) stripes, depending on the orientation of the actual painting. My intention was to create something lovely using the many different tones and shades of natural human pigmentation. The palette is essentially the same as that of “Pigmentation Explosion”, and it is interesting to see how altering the pattern of stripes changes the feel of the piece between paintings that used almost the exact same colors. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/melaninmosaic monthly 0.5 2024-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/5760451a-ebfe-4cc7-9997-e3f109f4b7c5/Melanin+Mosaic+5-24.jpg Blog - Melanin Mosaic - 18 in x 29 in, 5/2024 The pattern is a symmetric geometric grid using straight lines filled in with various shades of neutrals chosen to represent different human skin tones. My goal with this piece was to intermix dark colors with light colors reminiscent of human skin complexions to represent how something beautiful can develop when those colors collaborate in unison. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/asteroids monthly 0.5 2024-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/4ea7c152-f242-479c-907e-c795a0f35731/Asteroids+5-24.jpg Blog - Asteroids - 18 in x 29 in, /2024 I wanted to do a space-themed piece and came up with the idea of featuring the intermediate colors (orange, green and purple) as floating islands in a sea of complex dark neutrals. I also incorporated nine regions of gray ombre elements along the edges and in the center. It has a sort of futuristic, “sci-fi” feel to it. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/earthscapetriangles monthly 0.5 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/e59b818b-77c3-4c3d-affd-4c8cbcc1bab5/Earthscape+Triangles+-+4-15-24.jpg Blog - Earthscape Triangles - 18 in x 29 in, 4/2024 While I was making "Earthscape Horizon", I decided to do a companion painting of the same size using the same colors but laying down triangles instead. There are actually a few more colors in this piece than in “Earthscape Horizon”, but in general the colors are otherwise identical. Studying these two pieces highlights how patterning can totally change the “feel” of a piece independent of color. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/earthscapehorizon monthly 0.5 2024-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/d8e22725-142b-46e2-ab37-f8a1d7fe409e/Earthscape+Horizon+4-15-24.jpg Blog - Earthscape Horizon - 18 in x 29 in, 4/2024 My mother asked me to replicate “Possibility” the very complex “doodle” painting of blues and browns that is hanging in my daughter’s apartment. While no two of my paintings will ever be an exact match, I tried my best to match the overall feel of the original piece. What I found interesting about the process was realizing how many more technical insights I’ve learned since doing that original painting, starting with the choice of a “portrait-smooth” canvas and sealing the taped off shapes and lines with acrylic medium to reduce bleed around the tape. Incorporating this knowledge helped save me literally dozens of hours of touch-ups in the process. Hopefully, she’ll like the reprise of “Possibility”, this time named “Earthscape Horizon”. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/lafamiglia monthly 0.5 2024-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/0ae32b81-92d4-449a-b873-db965eb1355e/La+Famiglia+3-24.jpg Blog - La Famiglia - 13 in x 21 in, 3/2024 This is a collaborative painting between members of my family. My sister Pamela and my parents came up to visit us to see the "Prismatic" exhibition that featured my paintings at the Louden House (Lexington Art League). This was the first time in probably 5 years since they had been up to Lexington, and in celebration of the wonderful time we shared together, we decided to do a joint painting. I layed down a grid of black lines, and each of us, along with my wife Sarah and daughter Julia, took it in turn to fill in the grid. We decided that Pamela would have the painting, so we left the choice of colors to her, and she chose golds, silvers and neutrals. She named it "La Famiglia" in honor of family. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/bluemorpho monthly 0.5 2024-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/7312f2b2-1d19-4a25-9472-b9a1aee21b6d/Blue+Morpho+3-24.jpg Blog - Blue Morpho - 22 in x 22 in, 3/2024 A colleague in Philanthropy from the Kentucky Children's Hospital asked me to consider painting a blue morpho butterfly to be used to help raise money for the Simpson family theater in the hospital where I work. This theater was named after a young lady who passed away after a brave and valiant two-time battle with cancer, and her wonderful family supports our efforts to help improve experiences for other children and young people. The painting, as I understand it, is to be raffled at an upcoming memorial walk in honor of this young lady who loved butterflies, and none more than the blue morpho, a shimmering and impressive large butterfly from central and south America. To do the piece, I found a good photo of a blue morpho on-line, blew it up in proportion to match the size of canvas I had in mind, and then stencilled it out on the canvas. I chose a background made up of pastel diamonds whose colors somehow reminded me of the young lady being honored. The butterfly itself is made up of more than two dozen different blue hues, mostly metallics to give it a shimmer, and graded so that the blues were lighter in the center and darkest toward the periphery. The painting was raffled off at a fundraising event, and won by Toi Morton, a friend of the family of the young woman being honored. Interestingly, she ended up donating it to the Kentucky Children's Hospital, and they decided it should hang in the pediatric heme/onc infusion room named after this special patient of ours, so ironically, it now resides less than 30 steps from my office at work! https://jadartstudio.com/blog/coolchange monthly 0.5 2024-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/2815ef63-bb89-4132-8880-f8b04387dd7f/Cool+Change+3-24.jpg Blog - Cool Change - 22 in x 22 in, 3/2024 Circles are what this piece is about - concentric circles arising from the four borders of a square canvas that start from each border's midpoint and overlap all the way across the canvas to the opposite edge. The resulting grid, therefore, has absolutely no straight lines at all, except for the outside borders. I chose to fill in the patterns with blues, greens and aquas, and as the piece was evolving, I added inserts to some of the bigger shapes to add interest and complexity. To me, with the dozens of distinct "cool" colors included, the finished piece reminds me of the ocean, and as I was thinking of potential titles, I recalled that song "Time for a Cool Change" by the Little River Band who lyrics reference the sea over and over again. Then I thought "Cool Change" might also work because coins (change in a monetary sense) are circular. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/libertyjusticeandfraternity monthly 0.5 2024-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/0111a025-d46d-421c-b05f-ac7c9b9ca073/Liberty%2C+Justice%2C+and+Fraternity+2-24.jpg Blog - Liberty, Justice, and Fraternity - 13 in x 21 in, 2/2024 I painted this piece for a close friend and professional colleague who always goes above and beyond in his work. He and his family strongly identify with their Romanian heritage, so I decided to honor that by developing an artistic interpretation of the Romanian flag. The modern Romanian flag is made up of horizontal tricolors of blue, yellow, and red, but instead of painting only one shade of each, I decided to lay down vertical stripes of various hues of each of the primary colors, thinking that the various tones would represent the diversity and strength of the Romanian people. In researching the flag, I found out that the colors represent attributes dating from the early 1800's: blue for liberty, yellow for justice, and red for fraternity, which provided the name for the final work. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/chronograph monthly 0.5 2024-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/3b97a1be-b2c3-4abd-aa7a-632b81b458a5/Chronograph+2-24.jpg Blog - Chronograph - 13 in x 21 in, 2/2024 The goal for this piece was to explore circular geometry more, specifically smaller circles closely knitted together. I started by finding the center of the canvas for central circles. Then I kept adding circles, basing the size on where natural intersections fell as the grid came together. Finally, I added a straight lines to give the piece complexity and interest. I chose the warm colors of the visible spectrum to fill in the grid, starting with yellow for the circles, then outlining them in oranges and reds and finishing the edges with browns. There is symmetry in the piece, but not necessarily fixed at the midline, and as the painting was evolving , it reminded me of a chronograph watch with many little dials giving the time in different parts of the world. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/spicy monthly 0.5 2024-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/bed23807-bb73-4fd4-be17-a8426d2acdfc/Spicy+2-24.jpg Blog - Spicy - 12 in x 12 in, 2/2024 My wife Sarah decided to replace the Tupperware spice containers with clear glass ones, and she organized them so they could be seen on a shelf in the kitchen. I was surprised at the depth of colors that some of the spices had, now that they were refreshed and in clear glass jars. So I got the idea to try do do a painting with spices, and blended each of the following in matte acrylic liquid medium - turmeric, mustard, paprika, poppy seed, garam masala, cardamom, allspice, ancho chili, harissa and italian seasoning. Each went on a little differently, so I had to adapt how they were applied. Some went on conventionally with a brush, some were "bounced on" while others were loaded on and not brushed at all. I chose 10 spices whose colors seemed to go together in a sort of Fall theme. What is fascinating about this piece is that although there are three layers of varnish on it (to keep all those spices in place), it still smells marvelously fragrant, so it actually has a component of scent (at least for a while) to it. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/flow monthly 0.5 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/6e004614-52bc-411e-ac0f-a66706719e28/Flow+2-24.jpg Blog - Flow - 18 in x 29in, 2/2024 Having completed "Autumn Flow" in a palette of fall colors, I wanted to do a similar painting in all blues. There are 20 different blues in this piece - a mix of opaque, metallic and transparent acrylics, some brushed on flat and many with intentional impasto. My intention was to create a dynamic representation of flowing water. There are no intentionally straight lines in the piece. Instead, the grid was laid down free-hand and wavy before filling in the blues one by one. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/iltricolore monthly 0.5 2024-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/55357cf8-5450-42d5-ab30-f6b7e6984b2a/Il+Tricolore+2-24.jpg Blog - Il Tricolore - 13 in x 21 in, 2/2024 I am full-blooded Italian in ancestry, with 2 grandfathers coming from Abruzzo, the mountainous region east of Rome, a grandmother from Napoli (Naples), and a grandmother from a small village near Bergamo in the North of Italy. Proud of my heritage, I got the idea to paint the Italian flag, but to break up the green/white/red vertical stripes into geometric shapes filled with interesting hues and textures. I called it "Il Tricolore" because that's what the flag is commonly known as in Italy - meaning "three colors". There are at least a couple of interpretations as to the meaning of the colors. The one that appeals to me is that the colors carry idealistic significance: green for freedom, white for faith and purity, and red for love. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/celticflame monthly 0.5 2024-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/ffa0e3a7-9505-4daf-a3e5-08764ae118cc/Celtic+Flame+2-24.jpg Blog - Celtic Flame - 22 in x 22 in, 2/2024 I had intended to make this painting in the colors of DanceBlue, the philanthropic organization that supports pediatric oncology efforts at the hospital where I work. Every year they hold a silent auction for fundraising, and for several years I've donated paintings to them. Their colors are yellows/golds, blues and whites. I laid down the yellows first, really emptying my art cart and using dozens of distinct yellows and golds for the circular arching bands that I made with a geometric compass. But after the yellows were laid down, it just didn't seem like a pattern that would be amenable to the DanceBlue color scheme. Instead, it looked something like a Celtic knot to me, and I saw warm colors - reds, oranges and browns - complementing the yellow. So I filled in the patterning that way. When it was all done, it looked like it was a smoldering fire, so I called it "Celtic Flame". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/bluegrasslandscape monthly 0.5 2024-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/320320fb-f4d3-400b-95f7-507d753c3d66/Bluegrass+Landscape+1-24.jpg Blog - Bluegrass Landscape - 22 in x 28 in, 1/2024 I offered to do a painting for my dear friend Scott and his wife Gretchen, and told them to take a look at the website and see what they liked. They chose "Rolling Hills of Kentucky", a painting that took me out of my comfort zone some time before and that I gave to a colleague at work. Of course, no two paintings are ever exactly alike, but I duplicated alot of elements from "Rolling Hills of Kentucky" in "Bluegrass Landscape". I had a lot of fun with the "land" part of the painting (I hope I didn't go too far with the bling!), and there are at least 3 dozen distinct hues of blue in the sky. The white picket fence is intended to pay homage to the many beautiful horse farms in the Bluegrass, place where I now call home. I hope they enjoy the piece. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/taupiary monthly 0.5 2024-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/18679e48-a876-4caf-a9e9-99af54d53b9a/Taupiary+1-24.jpg Blog - Taupiary - 21 in x 34 in, 1/2024 This is my first painting after preparing the "Prismatic" series for exhibition. Perhaps it was because I had just done many rainbow-themed paintings using the full visible color spectrum, I had the hankering to do one all in browns and neutrals. For the grid, I combined straight lines and circles, very similar to what I did with "Through the Fractured Looking Glass" (for the Prismatic series). There are dozens of distinct colors in here, all in the gray-silver-taupe-brown family. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/crocodileteeth monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/d1175e04-3c36-4f27-b857-99e56c200479/Crocodile+Teeth+1-24.jpg Blog - Crocodile Teeth - 22 in x 28 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $950 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 My intention was to have psychedelic rainbow triangles emerging from a sea of neutral colors, all in triangles. As I was making the grey and silver background, my daughter said it reminded her of crocodile teeth, and that name stuck throughout the evolution of the piece. What is interesting about this one is that although at first glance the rainbow triangles all appear the same, there are actually differences between them - kind of a metaphor for humanity. We're all built relatively the same anatomically and physiologically, but each of us has a personal distinctiveness that makes us unique and special. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/cognitivedissonance monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/ef0416c7-7b58-4d67-bbd3-eb9c3d45a006/Cognitive+Dissonance+12-23.jpg Blog - Cognitive Dissonance - 22 in x 22 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $600 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 My wife looked at this prism painting and said "it's nice, but it's not in order. The colors blend well, but I'm having cognitive dissonance", and so the name was born. I got the idea to do it with the "hot colors" on the inside of the piece radiating toward the cooler colors in the perimetry. The grid pattern was interesting to consider, and I basically divided the axes evenly and brought the divisions together with perimeter points one quarter of the length of the outer edge. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/throughthefracturedlookingglass monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/ea2cb78e-f15d-4052-a538-26e98de06796/Cracked+Rainbow+Target+12-23.jpg Blog - Through the Fractured Looking Glass - 18 in x 29 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $780 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 I came up with the idea of combining a circular target pattern with a complex linear background. There are over 120 colors in the painting, arranged in a ROYGBIV spectral sequence starting with violet in the center, flanked by cool blues and greens and then progressing into yellows, oranges and reds toward the circumference. When I reflected on the finished piece, it looked cracked or shattered, and my first instinct was to call it "Cracked Rainbow Target". But a colleague at work suggested “Through the Fractured Looking Glass”, which I liked very much. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/aboriginalprism monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/ea5440ef-2447-4fbc-b7e1-7a151162308c/Dotted+Rainbow+Target+-+12-23.jpg Blog - Aboriginal Prism - 22 in x 22 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $475 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 My daughter gave me a vision of a prism painting in concentric circles on a square frame. I had been intrigued by dot painting as done in Australian aboriginal artwork, so thought I’d incorporate concentric circles of small dots into her idea. I varied the size of the dots from smallest in the center to largest at the ends, and used lots of colors in this piece. This painting represents my first time exploring the interesting world of dots. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/quiltedrainbowtargetforamanda monthly 0.5 2023-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/7466de9a-41f0-40a3-9f64-45e71cfab172/Quilted+Rainbow+Target+for+Amanda+11-23.jpg Blog - Quilted Rainbow Target for Amanda - 22 in x 22 in, 12/2023 A colleague and scientist in my lab commissioned this piece for his wife Amanda. She has a collection of quilts, and he asked me to do a prism painting that looked like a quilted pattern. He liked "Rainbow Target" and "Inverted Rainbow Square" so I attempted to blend those two together in making this piece. He also wanted it in the order of the visible color spectrum, so it conforms to the ROYGBV sequence. As is my style, there are dozens of distinct colors incorporated including plenty of metallics, transparents and textured squares. I hope she likes it! https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rainbowdeconstructed-aquas monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/7b8cd9cb-7423-47a2-bc97-23dbbab09eb6/Rainbow+deconstructed+-+Aqua.jpg Blog - Rainbow Deconstructed - Aquas - 13 in x 21 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $340 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 I had originally intended "Aqua X" to be a part of the Rainbow Deconstructed series, but my daughter liked it for her new apartment when she started medical school, so I painted a second aqua painting on the 13 in x 21 in Fibonacci format for the deconstructed series. Almost a year had gone by between the two paintings, and in the interim I explored non-linear, circular lines, which are incorporated into this piece. Looking at the two paintings side by side, it is interesting how different each is from the other despite using more or less the very same colors. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/radar monthly 0.5 2023-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/49de9273-83fd-45b9-8f17-efa75c63c75a/Radar+11-23.jpg Blog - Radar - 22 in x 22 in, 11/2023 This piece is an exploration of black, white and gray, with some blue accents. It is also a mixture of circular lines and straight lines, all coming together in a pattern that somehow reminded me of radar. There are 8 distinct blue hues and 22 neutral colors (whites, blacks, silvers, grays). https://jadartstudio.com/blog/autumnflow monthly 0.5 2023-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/7213a71e-375f-4931-b34d-16e5feec46a6/Autumn+Flow+11-23.jpg Blog - Autumn Flow - 18 in x 29 in, 11/2023 I painted this piece immediately after finishing my work for the 2024 "Prismatic" exhibition at the Lexington Art League, so I have to admit I was quite weary of the full color spectrum. Perhaps because it was right around Thanksgiving time, I opted to go with a "Fall" color palette. And in this one, I free-hand drew the lines, hoping to lay down a grid that looked something like falling leaves. It's hard to describe how the finished piece hit me - was it more like tiger stripes (if the painting is oriented vertically) or more like flowing water (when the painting is held horizontal). I'm not sure, but I think it turned out quite interestingly. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rainbowcube monthly 0.5 2023-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f1eef9b1-9b93-47a4-a151-291e572da436/Rainbow+Cube+10-23+-+2.jpg Blog - Rainbow Cube - 15 in x 15 in x 15 in 10/2023 My wife Sarah and I "scoped out" the room assigned to me at the Louden House for the 2024 "Prismatic" exhibition. In it was a central pedestal, and this got me thinking about possibly doing a three dimensional piece to contribute to the exhibition. Since the exhibition is all about the visible color spectrum I adorned it in rainbow colors, with a little bling thrown in. I found an MDF wooden cube on-line, and decided I'd try that as a foundation. After considering many patterning options, I decided on breaking the cube down into "color cubes" - one per vertex. I added the black lines and silver/white highlights after it was done. The biggest challenges of the piece are (1) how should it be displayed - flat side down (and if so which one) or - what I think would look better - vertex side down (but then how do I design a base for that? there aren't any out there I can find to buy), and (2) where should I sign the piece? I usually sign my paintings on the frame in the back, so as not to deter from the geometric symmetry of the painting. In any case, I had fun doing my first 3-d painting on a cube! https://jadartstudio.com/blog/candycanerainbow monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f4dfa2fd-5672-4831-b183-b02f002b6353/Candy+Cane+Rainbow+10-23.jpg Blog - Candy Cane Rainbow - 21 in x 34 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $900 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 This piece is basically a prism in stripes going from magenta to red to orange to yellow to green to teal to blue to purple. With the goal of making this one unique, I decided to add a column of twirled colors as one "stripe" insert for each color family, each one with a dark, medium and light hue of that particular color. I kept track of how many colors I used in the painting. Altogether, I used 150 distinct colors in this piece, which is the most amount of colors I've used for any painting I've done so far. When it was all done, the twirled columns reminded me of a candy cane, so I named this one "Candy Cane Rainbow". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rainbowtriangles monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9be4eb35-90ad-4c87-8a14-1335e4082430/Rainbow+Triangles+10-23.jpg Blog - Rainbow Triangles - 18 in x 29 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $1,450 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 I wanted to do a piece that looked "crinkly", so decided to reprise "Rainbow Triangles, Left-handed" except this time I added magentas and teals into the color gradient. And this time, I used both hands to paint it (for the original, my dominant hand was in a cast and was unusable). This painting is among my most complex works, and it took around 100 hours or so to complete. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/pulsar monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/d8ea6f27-b75d-4f26-b017-3e322210425b/Pulsar+9-23.jpg Blog - Pulsar - 20 in x 20 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $500 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 I chose to put yellows in the center of this painting that is made as an extended prism (ROYGBV plus teals and magentas thrown in), but instead of going next to orange and red, I used the cooler colors in the middle and then progressed to the warmer colors on the periphery. To me, the finished painting has a three dimensional and energetic quality to it, and the name "Pulsar" seemed to fit. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/supernova monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9f0590a3-40bf-43e1-a8b8-4734efb532c7/Supernova+9-23.jpg Blog - Supernova - 40 in x 40 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $2,250 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 I painted this piece to be included in an upcoming Lexington Art League exhibition called "Prismatic". It is the largest square painting I've done to date, and it follows the "extended prism" pattern I've come to appreciate, meaning that I include magentas in between the violets and reds, and teals in between the greens and the blues. It is a complex piece whose grid was carefully laid down in a symmetric pattern. Each color block has between 13 - 16 distinct colors in it and I stayed very true to the grid when laying down the paint, meaning that even the tiniest patterns were preserved. As I painted the piece, which easily took over 100 hours to do, I taped over the preceding color block before going on to the next. I did this mainly to protect the sections from errant paint or a mishandled tube that would scratch the canvas, but it had the effect of an "unveiling" at the end, where I finally could see all the colors together - a magnificent moment and a feeling of joy for me at the final realization of my initial vision for the piece. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/reticulatedrainbow monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/0ddb6ee8-eeb8-4c07-bc99-72f5d1521c03/Tortoiseshell+Rainbow+-+8-23.jpg Blog - Reticulated Rainbow - 24 in x 31 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $900 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 I have done several paintings exploring the many ways to lay down the ROYGBIV color spectrum on a canvas. I had done a few paintings in this doodle-like pattern, including a quartet of pieces in purples for my daughter's room. In fact, my daughter was the one who showed me this pattern, having herself learned it from a high school teacher who later succumbed to cancer. For my daughter, seeing this pattern reminds her of the good person that this teacher was and the way the teacher used to doodle this pattern in her class to add some beauty to her room. I used her basic pattern, but put a "prismatic" twist to it to conform to the ROYGBIV color spectrum. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/confetti monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/603a3a4c-0103-4ef6-bcfa-2e9282b9c14c/A+Throw+of+Colors+-+8-23.jpg Blog - Confetti - 20 in x 20 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $550 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 My goal was to apply the colors of the prism to a canvas, but in random order instead of arranging them in the ROYGBV spectrum sequence. I added browns and neutrals to the piece because I thought they would add to the interest of the finished painting. In total, I used 148 different colors in the piece, many of them custom blended. Of the total, 41 are metallics and 20 are transparent, and they are laid down more or less in a random manner. I did want to add some structure to the piece, so I added black around the edges and to distinct patterns in the body of the work to create a sense of symmetry in an otherwise chaotic arrangement. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/oceandeconstructed monthly 0.5 2025-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/578521a0-e0af-455f-8e3c-a4810f84a3da/Ocean+deconstructed+rejuvenated+4-25.jpg Blog - Ocean, Deconstructed - 22 in x 28 in 08/2023 Sarah and I have a blues, greens and aquas theme in the master bedroom, and I wanted to create another piece to rotate in and out of the decor of that room. I decided to use both straight lines as well as circular lines for this piece, and was trying to emphasize the blue-to-aqua-to-teal relationships. Sarah likes the painting, so it will soon go up on one of the walls. In Spring of 2025, I took the painting back down to the studio to add complexity to the piece in the form of insets and dots. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/danceblueswirl monthly 0.5 2023-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/abebffda-113c-4458-9ffe-a6fdef64f2ab/DanceBlue+Swirl+7-23.jpg Blog - DanceBlue Swirl - 22 in x 22 in 07/2023 I bought a bendable ruler for making curvy lines, and thought I'd try out a swirl pattern - kind of like a peppermint hard candy - but do it in the colors of DanceBlue, the philanthropic organization that supports the pediatric oncology clinic where I work. At first, I had planned on using dozens of different blues, golds and whites, but as the painting progressed, I felt it would be better to keep things simpler and just use the same six colors over and over again, coupled with paler versions of blue or yellow to contribute to the larger spaces. Though it was a terrific challenge to get the lines crisp and a lot of touch-ups to do, I was pleased at how this one turned out. I entered this into a UK HealthCare Employee Art Call, and they asked me whether I’d be interested to donate it for beautifying the hospital (which I agreed to). https://jadartstudio.com/blog/homagetouniversityflats monthly 0.5 2023-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/06d4c7e9-b02a-4743-a618-48cf5100703c/Homage+to+University+Flats+7-23.jpg Blog - Homage to University Flats - 22 in x 28 in 07/2023 I painted this on the occasion of my daughter moving into her true first apartment by herself. As she started medical school, she moved into University Flats, a graduate and professional student residential housing unit on the campus of the University of Kentucky. Built within the prior five years, it still had that "new" feeling to it, and her apartment was very nice. The decor of the building is in taupes, silvers, and browns with blue highlights (I suppose because it's at UK). In this geometric piece, I tried to recall that color palette, and instead of adding white shapes - which I tend to always like to do - I decided instead to add white outlining to some of the components in the piece. Hopefully she will like it, and find a suitable spot for it in “U-Flats”. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/feeltheburn monthly 0.5 2024-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/56ecd335-9df9-4406-a945-11399345aa3e/Feel+the+Burn+7-23+revamped+with+insets.jpg Blog - Feel the Burn - 22 in x 22 in 07/2023 I painted this piece in order to document the process of how most of my paintings are done - laying down a grid, taping off shapes one color at a time, adding each color in sequence, doing the touch-ups in between colors, and deciding what colors come next based on how the piece looks and how I want the finished product to come together. My intent was to put the photos that I took documenting each step together in a video to show the evolution of the piece. For this painting, I chose colors in the warm/hot range - reds, golds, oranges, and yellows - with plenty of transparent colors and metallics thrown in. In the end, the piece reminded me of fire, so I named it "Feel the Burn". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/eyeseethesea monthly 0.5 2023-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/deeb1f15-aee4-42a5-942e-e6ece9f4a42d/Eye+See+the+Sea+7-23.jpg Blog - Eye See the Sea - 22 in x 28 in 07/2023 My brother asked me to paint him a picture incorporating the logo that his daughter Allie designed for his new ophthalmology practice in Myrtle Beach, SC. The logo incorporates “beachy" themes reminiscent of palm trees and the teals and blues of the sea in a shape that also looks like an eye. He showed me photos of the office space, which is colored with neutral and cool tones. So after thinking long and hard about it, I decided to do a diamond background with colors one might find near the shore. I zoomed up the size of the logo on the computer and used it to trace onto the canvas. The logo itself is made of 36 distinct colors arranged in horizontal stripes going from cerulean blue (darkest) through brilliant blue (middle) to teal (lightest) in an ombre effect made by incorporating more of the next color into the previous color. I wasn’t sure what to do with the middle, but Tom (my brother) preferred it white. Hope it helps kit out the new office which I’m sure he’ll do well in! https://jadartstudio.com/blog/geodesicdanceblue monthly 0.5 2023-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/50599710-45c1-4b2b-b15f-0d683783b416/Geodesic+DanceBlue+6-23.jpg Blog - Geodesic DanceBlue - 24 in x 31 in 06/2023 I got the idea of doing a painting all in triangles, but with a gradient of different sizes going from the smallest to the largest toward the center of the painting. The canvas conforms to the "golden ratio" (1.618) which derives from the Fibonacci sequence in which each number is equal to the sum of the preceding two numbers, and can be found in many things in nature. I chose the blues and yellows and whites of the DanceBlue philanthropic organization that has been a partner to pediatric oncology at the University of Kentucky where I work. When it was all done and I stood back and considered it, it reminded me of a geodesic dome in some ways, so I called it "Geodesic DanceBlue". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/micromanaged monthly 0.5 2023-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/8558dbc4-bec4-4203-a3be-16a611cb1289/Micromanaged+5-23.jpg Blog - Micromanaged - 24 in x 31 in 06/2023 I was asked by a loved one to paint a picture to match the decor of a specific room - in golds, blues and whites and in the fashion of a smaller piece - "Rainbow Triangles, Left-handed" that is made up of lots of little triangles and that I did while my dominant hand was in a cast. So I laid down a triangle grid pattern, in larger triangles to match the perspective of the canvas I chose (a larger Fibonacci ratio canvas), and started in on the golds, blues and whites. Unfortunately, the person for whom the painting was being done did not like so many golds and such large triangles, and so the person opted not to put it on the wall. So I named it "Micromanaged" as a tongue-in-cheek (and possibly passive aggressive) commentary on the process. Fortunately another family member loved it, and it now hangs in her living room. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/earthseasky monthly 0.5 2023-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/506cd86e-e565-4e54-b0c3-3a4e0ceb0532/Earth+Sea+and+Sky+5-23.jpg Blog - Earth, Sea and Sky - 20 in x 24 in 05/2023 My friend and colleague Dr. Jack Geil was retiring from the practice of pediatric hematology/oncology after more than forty years of outstanding service. I offered to paint him a picture in honor of the occasion, and he was drawn to my “Natural Elements” series. He asked for “mainly water and sky”, so I came up with this painting. I tried to convey a sense of an ombre sky by using probably two dozen or more custom blues, blending each with more white nearer to the horizon. For the water, I hoped to capture a sense of flow by applying many different colors of blues and teals and by using a wavy hand motion. I ended up putting a little “earth” underneath, just because I like how it brings it all together. Hopefully Dr. Geil will like how it came out. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/boston-redux monthly 0.5 2023-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/4493943a-a135-4fa8-a859-07363acf4d87/Boston+Redux+5-23.jpg Blog - Boston Redux - 22 in x 22 in 05/2023 I have a friend named Paul who is the father of one of my daughter's oldest friends. Politically, we're on opposite poles, but we're still friends nonetheless. I offered to do a painting for him, and he told me he wanted a Mondrian-style subway map, mostly in blues and greens... a tall order, and one that required much thought. I ended up reminiscing about Boston, the city where Sarah and I lived for ten years, taking the "T" almost every day. As it happens, Paul grew up in New England, so paying homage to Boston seemed to make sense in a painting for him. The main lines on the T are the green line, the blue line, the orange line and the red line (the one we took most often). So I found a map of the T in the central Boston (so that the subway lines could be appropriately magnified in the context of the piece), and chose to make the colors actually a moving blend rather than one color for each line - my goal was to convey a sense of motion. The background had to be white, much like almost every subway map I've ever seen. And then I added small black circles to represent subway stations. Next came the "silver" bus routes that paralleled the subway lines. Finally, I added abstract representations of water (flowing blue circles) and green spaces (speckled square shapes) to honor the beauty of the water in Boston (Charles River, Boston Harbor) and the tremendous parks (Public Garden, the Common, the Fens), and also to honor Paul's request for "mostly blues and greens". I hope he likes it! https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rainbow-target monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/2d9d7a31-b5b7-415a-bfd8-8989851b9d27/Rainbow+Target+5-23.jpg Blog - Rainbow Target - 22 in x 22 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $600 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 I was energized to find even more ways to "fit a rainbow on a canvas". Having been exploring non-linear grids laid down with a geometric compass, I decided to do a circular pattern, and chose to start with yellow in the middle instead of the ROYGVB from one side to another. My daughter said it reminded her of a target, hence the name. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rainbow-deconstructed-magentas monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/dbb35eb5-9a2f-4ce3-9072-7b42a49d4207/Magentas+-+5-23.jpg Blog - Rainbow Deconstructed - Magentas - 13 in x 21 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $340 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 I added to the extended prism of the "Rainbow Deconstructed" series by creating a piece all in magentas - the blend between reds and purples. I chose to do this one using mostly arcs and non-linear edges (used a geometric compass to lay down the grid). https://jadartstudio.com/blog/matrixprism monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1ae20417-d49d-4c74-a2c9-48c414f2217a/Matrix+Prism+4-23.jpg Blog - Matrix Prism - 24 in x 31 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $1,450 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 This is an extended prism - meaning that it's the ROYGBV colors with magentas and teals thrown in (because I like how they add to the prism). The canvas confirms to the Fibonacci ratio, and I laid down a complex repetetive grid, with some bleed over of colors from one family to the next to unify the piece. I emptied out the art cabinet for this one. In total there are 108 colors included, including 27 transparents, 18 metallics and 25 custom colors. My goal was to make each color family beautiful in its own right, but then to highlight how when they come together, they synergize to make something even more beautiful. The whole is improved by each individual; a metaphor for humanity. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/aztecsun monthly 0.5 2023-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/dff885e0-c7e8-45ea-bc21-6c1e1494ec05/Aztec+Sun+4-23.jpg Blog - Aztec Sun - 22 in x 22 in 04/2023 This painting is all about warmth and radiance. I used dozens of golds, yellows, oranges, reds and browns in it, and laid down a pattern using only a geometric compass which produces circular patterns and non-linear edges. There are "inserts" in many of the middle panels, and when it was done it reminded me of an Aztec sun. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rhapsodyinbluesandbrowns monthly 0.5 2023-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/a4642a71-5966-47ad-862a-1daad240c5f6/Rhapsody+in+Blues+and+Browns+-+3-23.jpg Blog - Rhapsody in Blues and Browns - 21 in x 34 in 03/2023 When I painted this, I had our first floor in mind, either in the hall, the dining room or in the powder room that we were in the midst of renovating. Blues and browns are "our colors", and much of the first floor is themed in those tones. The canvas conforms to the "golden ratio" of 1.618 which is derived from the Fibonacci sequence. I used 11 distinct browns and 12 separate blues in the piece, with a lot of transparent paints and metallic paints thrown in. I also combined circular lines with straight lines, drawing on lessons learned from past paintings to "put it all together". I chose the name "Rhapsody in Blues, and Browns" as a play on George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue". We'll see if Sarah likes it enough for it to get hung on the wall! https://jadartstudio.com/blog/andtheyreoff monthly 0.5 2023-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f16ff671-56b6-45b7-8861-fddfd00ccb3e/And+They%27re+Off...+3-23.jpg Blog - And They’re Off… - 13 in x 21 in 03/2023 I painted this picture with a specific painting in mind. My barber has a painting of horses racing in the Kentucky Derby. She has long been interested in my paintings, and I told her that I would be happy to paint her one. She took a very long time to tell me what colors she liked, but finally she pointed to the horse racing painting and said "I like peaches and teals, like that in the painting". So I had that painting in mind when I did this one for her. There are probably 25 different colors in this, very heavy on the pinks/peaches and teals, with complementary colors added in, including about 10 custom colors I mixed for this piece. As I painted it, the bright colors reminded me of those you might see in jockey silks. I think the painting will be a very nice "match" to her Derby painting, and hope she likes it very much. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/cross-sectionofariver monthly 0.5 2023-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/0598d9d4-e9bb-4f21-9257-58085492c414/Cross-section+of+a+River+3-23.jpg Blog - Cross-section of a River - 13 in x 21 in 03/2023 A friend of mine asked me to paint her something as she moved away from Lexington to another state. After looking over my website, she told me she liked "Land" and also "Water" from the Natural Elements series. So I thought a bit about how to combine these themes, and came up with the idea of a river, complete with a blue sky and the riverbed underneath. My vision for this is a stylized, geometric look at a river flowing left to right, in cross-section. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/llsdeconstructed monthly 0.5 2023-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/40b9e20e-f3dc-4389-8a47-f6d63e59d7e3/LLS+Deconstructed+3-23.jpg Blog - LLS Deconstructed - 20 in x 20 in 03/2023 I made this painting to donate to an auction to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common pediatric cancer, and I have several patients with ALL. When the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) representative asked me about supporting their cause, I told her I would paint a picture in honor of LLS. The colors of LLS are black, white gray and red, and I after thinking a while on what I could do with those colors, I decided to make a piece that incorporated their color palette and also represent recent advances in precision medicine such as the tyrosine kinase inhibitor drugs that have proved so successful in leukemias driven by the BCR-ABL translocation. So I wanted to end up with a high-tech, almost target-like piece based on blacks, grays, whites and red. The finished painting looks nothing like their logo (which is their name and a drop of blood), but I think it came out looking good. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/navigatinghome monthly 0.5 2023-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1a0f595b-800f-47a4-8e5a-6d22d44e7d76/Navigating+home+3-23.jpg Blog - Navigating Home - 20 in x 20 in 03/2023 While I was working on this painting, our region was hit by a windstorm that knocked out power to half the city. I kept on painting, but had to limit myself to daylight hours and to areas of the house that got good natural light. My wife and I gravitate to blues and browns in our house, so this piece felt very "at home" to me. While we had no power, we had to readjust our routine a lot, and it made me take stock of how thankful I was to have a home that could withstand a severe storm. My daughter said "it reminds me of a compass" when she saw the finished piece, so between that comment and the focus on "home", I decided to call it "Navigating Home". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/sunsetdeconstructed monthly 0.5 2023-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/097e3289-a392-472c-a55f-ae94adccf7a8/Sunset+Deconstructed+2-23.jpg Blog - Sunset Deconstructed - 18 in x 24 in 02/2023 I painted this one as a planned wedding gift for one of my daughter's oldest friends. The bride's favorite color is pink, and the groom's favorite color is orange. A difficult combination in which to get distinction between colors, but as I thought about it, I kept coming back to a blazing sunset, with a yellow sun in a fire-lit sky filled with pinks and oranges. These are the predominant colors of the piece, and I bordered it with reds and then finally browns on the edges, to represent a timeline of sunset from day (the sun in the middle) to night (the darks around the edges). I hope they like it! https://jadartstudio.com/blog/blueandbrownmakesage monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/089612e0-d49c-4e14-a565-2a3672a1d4a5/Blue+and+brown+make+sage+pair+1-23.jpg Blog - Blue and Brown Make Sage - 20 in x 24 in each - 01/2023 I painted these matching pieces with a specific spot in mind - the family room wall in my parent's house in Florida. I was chatting with my mother on a recent trip down there about potentially doing a pair of paintings for her walls there. She likes browns and blues, and there are notes of sage in the room as well. The painting was made with a geometric compass, so the lines are mainly curvy. I used transparent paints which were applied by bouncing the brush to give a glow to the colors, and I leaned heavily on metallic paints to give pizzazz. What I found interesting was that when I mixed a blue color with a brown color, what I got was sage - a kind of earthy green. So there are 5 different examples of that in the piece, each sage made with a different brown and blue. In the end, it came out wavy and geometric and beautiful. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/valentino monthly 0.5 2025-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f5b2a203-82f0-4698-a8b2-f6a7ace33cdd/Valentino+2-23+-2.jpg Blog - Valentino - 22 in x 22 in 02/2023 This one sort of developed as it went. It started as an exploration of magentas on a grid that used a lot of wavy lines laid down with a geometric compass, but at some point my daughter saw it and mentioned how much it looked like valentine's day, so I went with that and added reds and pinks. It turned out to be a pretty cool image of "love colors", hence the name "Valentino". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/natureboy monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/d29393c8-6671-4298-88a0-01f996592ac2/Nature+Boy+2-23.jpg Blog - Nature Boy - 20 in x 24 in 02/2023 I painted this picture using a combination of straight lines and curved lines that were laid down with a geometric compass. I relied heavily on transparent colors for this, and "bounced the brush" to give those segments texture. When it all came together, it reminded me of the earthtone colors seen in nature. I find that the textured transparent colors seem to glow from within. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/dancebluedaisy monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/8b376a8e-fb27-471a-b62b-3e783c9bfc32/DanceBlue+Daisy+1-23.jpg Blog - DanceBlue Daisy - 22 in x 22 in 1/2023 I hadn’t planned on painting an image that looks very much like a daisy. Rather, I was exploring with the geometric compass on a square canvas, and when I had laid down the grid, I saw a flower shape amongst the lines. I decided that I would do a yellow center, and concentric petals of various whites interspersed with light blues, all on a dark blue background. As these are the colors of DanceBlue, I decided to call it “DanceBlue Daisy”. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/gaia monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9858540f-9239-4386-9536-189975e01174/Gaia+1-23.jpg Blog - Gaia - 22 in x 28 in 01/2023 The grid for this painting was done entirely with a geometric compass, so none of the lines are actually straight. I did the piece in blues, greens, teals and golds, and when it was done, it looked like a Mother Earth kind of thing. So I named it "Gaia" in honor of the Greek goddess of Earth and the "mother of all life". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rainbowhominid monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/d5da50e1-4bd6-48d4-9070-fb35d720407f/Rainbow+Hominid+1-23.jpg Blog - Rainbow Hominid - 22 in x 28 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $600 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 I totally left my comfort zone with this piece. I was envisioning a dark humanoid figure in a caveman-art style, centrally placed on the canvas and bathed in a concentric prism. The concept was that man’s place in the world is heavily influenced by his/her/their environment, and that we – like colors themselves – are actually a blend of individualism with those around us. All of the paints were mixed with acrylic gel to achieve very thick impasto on the canvas. What is totally unique about this painting is that the paint was applied with a silicon color shaper rather than a brush or a palette knife. This is also one of the very few paintings I’ve done that did not use tape at all, so the borders between colors are fluid rather than sharp. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/martyblues monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/ee68b960-ffd8-45a9-a4c1-f58e0a039d39/Marty+Blues.jpg Blog - Marty Blues - 22 in x 22 in 12/2022 I painted this piece for my mother-in-law "Marty" who liked "Thinking of Malachite" when she visited our house. Though she had some challenges settling on a color scheme, I went with blues because "Blue" is what she instinctively told me first when I asked her what color she wanted it to be. It has the same grid as "Thinking of Malachite" but looks quite different because of how I filled in the grid with color. It is made up of dozens of blues and neutral colors. What is very interesting to me about it is that it serves as a kind of study about how patterning and shading and color choice can make two paintings with an identical grid look quite different. In the end, she loved it, and it’s hanging in her living room in a prominent place, which I consider a high complement. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/cobblestones monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/ea0a3ba8-0be7-4439-9b3f-f6a84c6f1bb2/Cobblestones+12-22.jpg Blog - Cobblestones - 22 in x 22 in - 12/2022 My daughter had a photo of a cobblestone street in Europe that we walked on during our recent trip to Spain and Italy the previous summer, and I was inspired to make a design of radiating circles in a "cobblestone" design. I used browns mainly for the scheme, and although it came out a little on the dark side, I liked it very much. This was one of the first paintings I did that used curved lines. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rainbowmillipede monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/7e2c2c61-4b81-4f11-ae7b-f7e71b9bb754/Rainbow+Millipede+11-22.jpg Blog - Rainbow Millipede - 20 in x 24 in Acrylic on Canvas 2022 $750 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 With this piece, I envisioned the prism going round and round the canvas blending from one color to the next. I chose a black line to highlight the rows and columns, and decided to keep the blocks of color all going in the same direction. One person commented on how it reminded her of a “heat map” that you might see in a scientific paper, so I was tempted to call it “Rainbow Heat Map”, but in the end went with “Rainbow Millipede”. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/grecianviolet monthly 0.5 2023-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/8f236197-46d4-4beb-a100-20330b6aaac2/Grecian+Violet.JPG Blog - Grecian Violet - 22 in x 22 in 11/2022 I thought of a concentric maze-like pattern and it reminded my daughter of classic Greek shapes. I originally intended it for her room which is outfitted in purple, but she thinks there's too much magenta and pink in it for that space. Well, I like how it looks nonetheless! This piece was accepted in a UK HealthCare Employee Art Call (2023) and they asked me whether I’d be interested to donate it for beautifying the hospital (which I agreed to do). https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rainbow-kaleidoscope monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/28ac9b2a-d1ae-4911-b104-a05d5fee3615/Rainbow+Kaleidoscope.JPG Blog - Rainbow Kaleidoscope - 20 in x 24 in Acrylic on Canvas 2022 $650 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 I liked the smaller version of this (“Stained Glass Prism”), so went a little bigger on this canvas. Love how it looks like stained glass, and the textured application of "transparent" paints (bouncing the brush) has a lot to do with how the colors seem to glow. The black star-like structures give the piece balance and structure. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/dentatprism monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/21fd4124-bce7-4a1d-a958-d8e6b245e482/Dentate+Prism+11-22.jpg Blog - Dentate Prism - 20 in x 24 in Acrylic on Canvas 2022 $650 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 One more way to develop a 2 dimensional prism on a canvas, this piece is about symmetry using the primary ROYGBV color palette. I put little triangles in here and there, making it look like the middle of the painting has teeth. So I called it “Dentate Prism”. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/allchargedup monthly 0.5 2023-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/0b7d20bb-60e3-42c5-a8d7-6bf400bf85f7/All+Charged+Up+.jpg Blog - All Charged Up - 36 in x 36 in 10/2022 My patron asked for a symmetric painting that would use the yellows and blues of the San Diego (now LA) Chargers' football team in a pattern similar to “The Shield”, a painting of mine that appealed to him. I added the lightning bolts which were drawn from the trousers of their uniform. I documented my process (see “Process” for more information) to show the client how the painting was done. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/danceblueribbon monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/22acbc6a-c89a-4d3f-a37c-8531fce3dbd5/Dance+Blue+Ribbon.JPG Blog - DanceBlue Ribbon - 13 in x 21 in 10/2022 The DanceBlue logo is a yellow ribbon against a background of blue. I recapitulated that here using a variety of yellow and blue hues. This is another piece for donation to the organization for childhood cancer fundraising. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/danceblueexplosion monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1669528452582-0OLFDMJ86W1MT7BU8F28/dance+blue+explosion+in+41+colors.png Blog - DanceBlue Explosion - 22 in x 22 in 10/2022 DanceBlue is a philanthropic organization at the University of Kentucky that raises funds for childhood cancer programs in our Pediatric Oncology Division. Their colors are yellows, whites and blues. I made this painting to donate to one of their live auctions for fundraising. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/shield monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/92bdb15b-4050-4535-a944-e595699fa14b/Shield.JPG Blog - The Shield - 20 in x 20 in 09/2022 I made this one with a lot of browns, silvers and metallics, all bound by a shield-like rim of neutrals. As it was developing, it reminded me more and more of an ornamental shield from medieval times. This painting served as the inspiration for “All Charged Up” which was a commissioned work I painted for a client who liked “The Shield” but wanted it in the colors and flavor of the LA Chargers football team. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rising-sun monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/366be0b0-dc64-4328-897c-11b0a3623daa/The+Rising+Sun.JPG Blog - The Rising Sun - 20 in x 20 in 09/2022 This painting uses the warm colors of the prism with some brown thrown in. I was going for symmetry here, and used a geometric compass to make the concentric circles. I thought a circular form inside a square canvas would look interesting. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/skyline monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/bab69430-19bf-40fc-ab98-df8a4d530928/Skyline.JPG Blog - Skyline - 13 in x 21 in 09/2022 This blue to white ombre reminded me of an architecturally dense city like Chicago or New York when held vertical. Dozens of blues were used in this piece, and it looks equally good horizontal as it does vertical. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/geodesinstone monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/863e9642-155b-4258-bf57-c89d44f0e804/Geodes+in+Stone.JPG Blog - Geodes in Stone - 13 in x 21 in 09/2022 My daughter asked me to do a painting inspired by rock geodes since they boast geometric beauty. I envisioned eight separate geodes in varying shades of blue nestled into a precious silver/diamond background. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/flash monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/5ca09718-31cb-4418-8458-2670474b2044/Flash.JPG Blog - Flash - 13 in x 21 in 09/2022 This piece was a lead-up to a large painting in the style/colors of the San Diego (now LA) Chargers NFL football team that I was commissioned to paint. My client liked the look of “Shield" and wanted a square piece with symmetry. I thought about this for some time, and decided that I would include 4 lightning bolts in the piece to reference the Chargers' uniforms. I copied the lightning bolt from a photo on the side of their uniform, scaled it up, and then tried it out on a smaller canvas while waiting for the big 3 ft x 3 ft canvas arrived to get going on “All Charged Up”. I decided to use a different color on this mini piece that i called "Flash" instead of the blues, whites and yellows that I would use on “All Charged Up”. All of the background colors for “Flash” are transparent warm colors that I applied by bouncing the brush to give texture to the patterning. My daughter's friend Elizabeth liked it, so I gifted it to her and her fiancée as an engagement present. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/virion monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/5de2de3f-7817-4f7b-8d5f-ceb6cde782f5/Virion.png Blog - Virion - 13 in x 21 in 08/2022 I used a Fibonacci ratio canvas for this one, and put down 3 focal points in a central triangle. I used all neutral colors in the middle and put different hues of teal down on the sides. In the end, it reminded me of a virus particle, so I named it "Virion". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/kaleidoscope20 monthly 0.5 2023-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/e6235386-9587-48b8-aeea-7f7ccb521c43/Kaleidoscope+2.0.JPG Blog - Kaleidoscope 2.0 - 20 in x 20 in 08/2022 I made this one to replace "Kaleidoscope" which I donated to UK HealthCare. I made the same pattern as the original but used a few more shades of blues along with the neutrals. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rainbow-deconstructed-yellows-6negg monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/0638ff9e-0dda-455c-a0f3-0c9ffbda2de9/Rainbow+Grid.JPG Blog - Rainbow Grid - 18 in x 24 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $430 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 While I had the prism colors made again (for “Rainbow Columns”), I decided to put them down in a uniform grid pattern using white lines to separate. Yet another way to fit a rainbow on a canvas. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/stained-glass-prism monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/fd2efb9e-0e58-410a-9c12-77f1193e29e9/Stained+Glass+Prism+.JPG Blog - Stained Glass Prism - 13 in x 21 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $340 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 This painting features four focal points offset from the corners, with black lines connecting them to the canvas frame. The use of metallic impasto of each color family unifies the work. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/kaleidoscope2 monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/e6235386-9587-48b8-aeea-7f7ccb521c43/Kaleidoscope+2.0.JPG Blog - Kaleidoscope 2.0 - 20 in x 20 in 08/2022 I made this one to replace "Kaleidoscope" which I donated to UK HealthCare. I made the same pattern as the original but used a few more shades of blues along with the neutrals. I think it’s interesting to consider the subtle differences between the two pieces even though this was a ‘replicate', which really emphasizes that every painting is unique. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/hotandcold monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1da0f0d8-b394-4b12-bb8d-591cbfa446f3/Hot+and+Cold.JPG Blog - Hot and Cold - 20 in x 20 in Acrylic on Canvas 2022 $500 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 How can a rainbow fit onto a canvas? In this piece, I envisioned the warm colors going diagonal and the cool colors going vertical/horizontal, all united by yellow in the middle. I used different patterns for each color, which ended up making the piece feel “hot and cold”. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rainbow-columns monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/c13b436e-78f6-4a4b-bfc7-cb04229bfe3f/Rainbow+Columns.JPG Blog - Rainbow Columns - 18 in x 24 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $540 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 I went back to the ROYGBV prism for this one. But this time, I envisioned fitting a rainbow onto a canvas in vertical columns, all held in by gold to symbolize the mythical pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rainbow-prism-extended monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/0b1f2da6-0064-4c6c-a82c-1c66e6c724f2/Rainbow+Prism-+Extended.JPG Blog - Rainbow Prism - Extended - 20 in x 20 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $500 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 Yet one more way to fit a rainbow onto a canvas, in predictable geometric divisions. I called it "Extended" because I added in teals and magentas to extend the green-to-blue and red-to-violet spectrum in the conventional ROYGBV sequence. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/purple-tetrad-for-julia monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/c3d81fbe-9ad7-4f33-88ab-05dd97f54d19/Purple+Tetrad+for+Julia+.JPG Blog - Purple Tetrad for Julia - 13 in x 21 in 07/2022 We didn't expect to have our daughter back home for her gap year, but I was so happy she ended up at home. We redecorated her room, and for that I made this 4-piece matching set of geometric purples, lilacs and whites. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/pigment-explosion monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/58848a39-9bb2-4904-8fc5-41ed3ee881ce/Pigment+Explosion.JPG Blog - Pigment Explosion - 13 in x 21 in 06/2022 I am a pigment cell biologist by training, so this piece was intended to capture the many hues of human pigmentation. I love how it looks in the starburst pattern. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/alhambra monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/35bb85c9-d9d6-4af2-90b9-ce367825cab2/Alhambra+6-22.jpg Blog - Alhambra - 20 in x 20 in 06/2022 I painted this after returning from Europe where we visited the Alhambra castle in Cordoba Spain. I was impressed by the repetitive geometric patterns all over everything in the castle as well as the Moors' use of cool colors, many of which had faded with time. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/x-marks-the-spot monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/00df9628-1f71-4690-b6a6-b596f44a80f0/X+Marks+the+Spot.JPG Blog - X Marks the Spot - 13 in x 21 in 05/2022 This purple and silver piece was finished mere hours before we went away to Europe for our Summer '22 vacation. I used silicon color shapers to embed designs in the paint in some of the segments. I made the big “X” with black outlines, thicker toward the perimeter and thinning toward the center. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/humanity monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1669528927805-0Y77IO7WQVHD4JP17LS8/Humanity+copy.jpg Blog - Humanity - 13 in x 21 in 05/2022 I used the many pigmentation complexions in humans to make this painting, this time arranging the different hues in an off-setting linear pattern. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/shattered monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9129f42c-3cf4-44d0-88d4-04615c3c567d/Shattered.JPG Blog - Shattered - 20 in x 20 in 05/2022 I made this painting askew on the canvas, filling the main square with greens, teals and golds, and bordered with whites and blacks. This is the first piece I did with color shapers (which are silicon spatula-like tools) to put designs in at least some of the colors. When it was done, it reminded me of a shattered window made out of safety glass. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/swirl monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/28df104e-87cb-4018-838f-ece46dfa0365/Swirl.JPG Blog - Swirl - 20 in x 20 in 04/2022 When I laid down the geometric grid for this painting, I wanted to evoke motion on the canvas, so I made the pattern in a swirl-like design, using browns, golds, reds, oranges, bronzes and yellows. The interesting aspect of this painting is that it was one of three that I entered into an employee art competition in 2022 but then forgot that I entered it because months had passed since I had done so and heard back from the selection committee. Turns out this was the one they wanted (above “Caliente” and “Kaleidoscope”), and in the meantime I had gifted “Swirl” to Sarah’s wonderful cousin Dave and his awesome new wife Caroline for their wedding. The art selection committee was generous and understanding, however, and allowed me to enter “Kaleidoscope” instead for the employee art call. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/caliente monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/6e7fe2f8-e1a0-48f2-a522-69a1f09445b6/Caliente.JPG Blog - Caliente - 18 in x 18 in - 03/2022 I was asked by some medical students at the University of Kentucky to participate in a Medical Humanities event to discuss how the arts can enrich physicians' lives. I decided to talk about how my discovery of painting coincided with a tragic professional event that almost ended my career and how, at least for me, art was therapeutic and an important part of mental health balance. I had never documented my "process" before, so as part of my presentation to them, I started "Caliente" from scratch and took many photos of the evolution of the painting as it progressed. I called it "Caliente" because I used fluorescent acrylics for the first time, and the effect was to "heat it up!" I donated this painting to the University of Kentucky HealthCare System for use in an underfunded clinic in need of art. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/igottheblues monthly 0.5 2024-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9509b93c-b894-4e72-8dd5-cfbf0e38f2d4/I%27ve+Got+the+Blues.jpg Blog - I Got the Blues (Thinking of Alex) - 13 in x 21 in 03/2022 This piece was an inspiring young woman who had battled cancer since early adolescence. My division played a major part in her care and she and her family are very special to us. She passed away when she was twenty two, but she was a fighter until the end, and what she accomplished in her life was remarkable. At one clinic visit, her mother confided in me how much she liked the color Cerulean Blue. So I made this painting - all in blues - to honor this brave young woman and her family. There are dozens of different blues in the piece, and yes, Cerulean Blue is most certainly in there. The shades of blue are laid down in a gradient effect, to reflect the multifaceted accomplishments, beauty and impact that she made on the world. I will never forget her. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rolling-hills-of-kentucky monthly 0.5 2024-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/5f0db2d0-e0de-4eb5-ab6c-c677fb621bfb/Rolling+Hills+of+Kentucky+-+2-22.jpg Blog - The Rolling Hills of Kentucky - 20 in x 24 in 02/2022 A colleague challenged me to step out of my geometric comfort zone a bit and do a piece that captures the landscape of the Bluegrass region in central Kentucky where we both live. There are plenty of geometrically ordered elements in this painting, but I added three hills of “bluegrass” to depict the gentle rolling topography of our region. The white picket fence represents the many beautiful horse farms of the region. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/kaleidoscope monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/218a5dfb-f07b-414b-886e-5e0eb405a607/Kaleidoscope.JPG Blog - Kaleidoscope - 20 in x 20 in 02/2022 For this one, I wanted to continue exploring mainly neutral colors, but with a "pop" of brilliant blue. I made the focal point a few inches away from the four corners and laid the grid down from there. I got the idea of connecting the focal points in black which, to my eye, produced a frame within a canvas effect. This piece was selected by UK HealthCare for their 2022 Employee Art Exhibition, and I agreed to donate it to them for display. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/crossfire monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/52c3550d-843b-483b-a661-9dc7a57248ce/Cross+Fire.JPG Blog - Cross Fire - 20 in x 20 in - 02/2022 I was exploring the brown - orange - red- yellow color palette and going for symmetry and movement in this painting. I kept the color families separate but used many different colors within each to give interest to the painting. Honestly, I had a hard time naming this one, but ended up at "Crossfire" because it reminded me of a target. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rainbow-deconstructed-diagonal-neutrals monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f074077b-2d4a-4632-a85c-46de222984c8/Rainbow+Deconstructed-+Diagonal+Neutrals.JPG Blog - Rainbow Deconstructed- Diagonal Neutral - 13 in x 21 in 1/2022 This picture was made as a continuation of the "Rainbow Deconstructed" series. I used the same 13 in x 21 in canvas (which happens to fit the Fibbonacci Golden ratio). Here I wanted to explore colors independently of other colors, and for this one chose the neutral slate of grays, silvers, black and white. I staggered the borders a bit, and the effect came out kind of like an optical illusion, which appealed to me. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rainbowdeconstructed-browns monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/56db609f-5994-4a6e-ab41-f75888543eb3/Rainbow+Deconstructed-+Browns.jpg Blog - Rainbow Deconstructed - Browns - 13 in x 21 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $340 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 This picture was made as a continuation of the "Rainbow Deconstructed" series. I used the same 13 in x 21 in canvas (which happens to fit the Fibbonacci Golden ratio). Here I wanted to explore colors independently of other colors, and for this one chose the many shades of brown. This piece is mirrored on a diagonal slant - which turned out very interesting. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/grown monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/87b8db91-283e-4d2c-aa31-f48cb820f1c2/Grown.JPG Blog - Grown - 13 in x 21 in 01/2022 To further explore ombre art but in neutral tones rather than colors of the prism (ROYGBV), I made this piece that goes from gray to brown, hence the name "Grown". It is hanging up in the DanceBlue clinic at the University of Kentucky to cover up a hole in the wall of one of the bathrooms. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/aqua-x monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/ca7bf840-361b-4294-9f06-105a59c4d193/Rainbow+Deconstructed-+Aqua+X.JPG Blog - Rainbow Deconstructed- Aqua X - 13 in x 21 in 01/2022 I decided to extend the "Rainbow Deconstructed" beyond the ROYGBV spectrum, and here is what I came up with for aquas and teals. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/the-natural-elements-water monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/6f80917f-2114-4fb1-8681-93d441caf719/Elements-+Water.JPG Blog - The Natural Elements- Water - 20 in x 24 in 12/2021 I was inspired to do a series celebrating the "natural elements" of classical antiquity- Earth (Land), Water, Air (Wind), Fire and Space. I used matching sized canvases but tried to envision each element on its own, realizing that each is integral to the natural world in which we live. With "Water", I envisioned the different layers of water as they flow. I tried to capture motion and fluidity in this piece. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/the-natural-elements-space monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/d3934e55-c6d0-4f38-8e68-a5e7407afbc7/Elements-+Space.JPG Blog - The Natural Elements- Space - 20 in x 24 in 12/2021 I was inspired to do a series celebrating the "natural elements" of classical antiquity- Earth (Land), Water, Air (Wind), Fire and Space. I used matching sized canvases but tried to envision each element on its own, realizing that each is integral to the natural world in which we live. With "Space" I tried to evoke a solar system of different planets in a backdrop of dark space. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/the-natural-elements-land monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/6a22236e-2e81-401f-80c5-5e5db9b936a4/Elements-+Land.JPG Blog - The Natural Elements- Land - 20 in x 24 in 12/2021 I was inspired to do a series celebrating the "natural elements" of classical antiquity- Earth (Land), Water, Air (Wind), Fire and Space. I used matching sized canvases but tried to envision each element on its own, realizing that each is integral to the natural world in which we live. With "Land", my vision was that of the Earth being bullt from layers starting from a fiery core and proceeding to a verdant crust. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/the-natural-elements-fire monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/61149219-e01e-4bec-b226-0d7b8e4e4909/Elements-+Fire.JPG Blog - The Natural Elements- Fire - 20 in x 24 in 12/2021 I was inspired to do a series celebrating the "natural elements" of classical antiquity- Earth (Land), Water, Air (Wind), Fire and Space. I used matching sized canvases but tried to envision each element on its own, realizing that each is integral to the natural world in which we live. With "Fire", I envisioned a burning flame that reaches up into a dark night. I hope to convey a sense of radiance and warmth with this piece. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/the-natural-elements-air monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/5ead61a2-d3b0-43bd-9504-140f9312d6c2/Elements-+Air.JPG Blog - The Natural Elements- Air - 20 in x 24 in 12/2021 I was inspired to do a series celebrating the "natural elements" of classical antiquity- Earth (Land), Water, Air (Wind), Fire and Space. I used matching sized canvases but tried to envision each element on its own, realizing that each is integral to the natural world in which we live. With "Air", my vision was that of a cold wintery wind blowing across the sky. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rainbow-deconstructed-blues monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/91dc7ba7-ae1f-4e1c-9fcc-3d6d045b7f32/Rainbow+Deconstructed-+Blues+2.0.JPG Blog - Rainbow Deconstructed- Blues - 13 in x 21 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $340 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 Because I liked how my prism paintings had turned out, I kept thinking of different ways to get a rainbow on a canvas. I came up with the idea of a rainbow "deconstructed" to explore each separate color of the prism on its own on a smaller canvas. I envisioned the flexibility of placing the different colors on a wall in different patterns (not necessarily ROYGBV). In this piece I explored "blues". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rainbow-deconstructed-reds monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/82297e73-b9de-4a97-b880-b2afa764cee5/Rainbow+Deconstructed-+Reds.JPG Blog - Rainbow Deconstructed- Reds - 1 3 in x 21 in Acrylic on Canvas 2022 $340 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 Because I liked how my prism paintings had turned out, I kept thinking of different ways to get a rainbow on a canvas. I came up with the idea of a rainbow "deconstructed" to explore each separate color of the prism on its own on a smaller canvas. I envisioned the flexibility of placing the different colors on a wall in different patterns (not necessarily ROYGBV). In this piece I explored "reds". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rainbow-deconstructed-oranges monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/cc947153-c2bc-493b-afe8-05c29b43cf30/Rainbow+Deconstructed-+Oranges.JPG Blog - Rainbow Deconstructed- Oranges - 13 in x 21 in Acrylic on Canvas 2021 $340 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 Because I liked how my prism paintings had turned out, I kept thinking of different ways to get a rainbow on a canvas. I came up with the idea of a rainbow "deconstructed" to explore each separate color of the prism on its own on a smaller canvas. I envisioned the flexibility of placing the different colors on a wall in different patterns (not necessarily ROYGBV). In this piece I explored "oranges". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rainbow-deconstructed-greens monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/2bdfd882-5024-49ee-af9b-c5f3591ee98a/Rainbow+Deconstructed-+Greens.JPG Blog - Rainbow Deconstructed- Greens - 13 in x 21 in Acrylic on Canvas 2022 $340 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 Because I liked how my prism paintings had turned out, I kept thinking of different ways to get a rainbow on a canvas. I came up with the idea of a rainbow "deconstructed" to explore each separate color of the prism on its own on a smaller canvas. I envisioned the flexibility of placing the different colors on a wall in different patterns (not necessarily ROYGBV). In this piece I explored "greens". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rainbow-deconstructed-yellows monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f43649e8-1339-4768-b4f3-1b33caf29eda/Rainbow+Deconstructed-+Yellows.JPG Blog - Rainbow Deconstructed- Yellows - 13 in x 21 in Acrylic on Canvas 2022 $340 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 Because I liked how my prism paintings had turned out, I kept thinking of different ways to get a rainbow on a canvas. I came up with the idea of a rainbow "deconstructed" to explore each separate color of the prism on its own on a smaller canvas. I envisioned the flexibility of placing the different colors on a wall in different patterns (not necessarily ROYGBV). In this piece I explored "yellows". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rainbow-deconstructed-purples monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/c9e2f644-f138-4c55-9661-4fb0c5678f1f/Rainbow+Deconstructed-+Purples.JPG Blog - Rainbow Deconstructed- Purples - 113 in x 21 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $340 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 Because I liked how my prism paintings had turned out, I kept thinking of different ways to get a rainbow on a canvas. I came up with the idea of a rainbow "deconstructed" to explore each separate color of the prism on its own on a smaller canvas. I envisioned the flexibility of placing the different colors on a wall in different patterns (not necessarily ROYGBV). In this piece I explored "purples". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/ring-of-fire monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/04760553-2342-441c-89ca-3a06453e7398/Ring+of+Fire.JPG Blog - Ring of Fire - 18 in x 18 in 10/2021 In this painting, I was dabbling with the warm color side (ROY) of the prism. This piece was my first one where I used a geometric compass to draw concentric circles from the central point of the canvas. I then laid down a grid based on dividing up the perimeter, and then filled in the painting with dozens of reds, oranges and yellows. I decided to outline the piece in “muted pink” which comes out like a dark brick red, rather than to bring the ombre shapes all the way to the edges. When it was done, it reminded me of a "Ring of Fire". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/seasons-greetings monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/e4ae1057-8bf2-4dd2-99f4-01c5e815bd36/Season%27s+Greetings.JPG Blog - Seasons Greetings - 14 in x 18 in 10/2021 I made a Christmas themed piece for the wall rotation in our home. This one came out looking like a smartly wrapped Christmas present. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/teamwork monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/28ce6bf5-8dc8-4690-94a4-3499b1591028/Teamwork+.JPG Blog - Teamwork - 12 in x 12 in , each 09/2021 This is my first piece split between 2 separate canvases. I made this one for a dear friend who is a nurse and with whom I’ve worked for many years. She is now a nurse ethicist. I envisioned this as representing how teamwork is vitally important in medicine. This painting is a split piece of two equal squares, and the piece makes sense only when the two pieces collaborate together as a team. When properly aligned, the pieces “fit together” to make a whole that is more than its individual parts. A metaphor for teamwork. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/shades-of-gray monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/10911c48-bf74-4c0c-84e5-9ed56ff2a46d/Shades+of+Grey+.JPG Blog - Shades of Gray - 20 in x 20 in 09/2021 Perhaps because I had just done 3 separate rainbow prisms, I longed for the simplicity of neutral colors. So it was back to my wheelhouse of a symmetric grid on a square canvas. Symmetry and complementary shades of neutrals were my goals. I intended to produce an achromatic geometric painting with "Shades of Grey”, but in fact, there is a hint of yellow in the "parchment" color. Overall, however, it appeared to me as a whole lot of "shades of grey". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/infinityprism monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/4492d413-9d98-4810-b130-60fa10e8b8ed/Inifinity+Prism.JPG Blog - Infinity Prism - 18 in x 18 in Acrylic on Belgian Linen 2021 $450 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 I thought of the concept of an infinity prism, where there is no beginning and no end. One hue simply transitions into the next on the color wheel. I loved the end product and have featured this as a good example of my work. In this pattern, one color palette melds in with the next -a true "infinity prism". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/rainbow-triangles-left-handed monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/4b8c80bb-8e9e-4e9a-bf95-06f109794553/Rainbow+Triangles-+Left+Handed.JPG Blog - Rainbow Triangles, Left-Handed - 16 in x 20 in 08/2021 I had just had surgery on my dominant (right) hand to repair a torn scapho-lunate ligament (a casualty of a vicious pickleball backhand shot), and thought I would not be able to paint while my hand was essentially locked up in a brace for weeks. But I learned to hold the brush with the left hand, and (very slowly) managed to paint this ombre prism using little triangle shapes to make it look crinkly. For me, this piece is all about overcoming adversity by perseverance. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/cytokinesis monthly 0.5 2026-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f22935d9-5341-4828-be64-0ca098a69df5/Cytokinesis+rejuvinated+3-2026.jpeg Blog - Cytokinesis - 13 in x 21 in - 03/2026 This is a painting that evolved over time. I first made it in 2022, and then I looked at it again in and saw the opportunity to enhance it with the mandala dots and the textured micacious iron oxide triangles in each corner. Exploring the neutral colors, I developed this painting with an ombre of grays, silvers, blacks and whites in mind. It reminds me of two cells breaking apart after a round of division. This process, called "cytokinesis", gave the painting its name. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/prism-in-111-colors monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/bba569be-ec82-42bd-b182-5676c909af0a/Prism+in+111+Colors.JPG Blog - Prism in 111 Colors - 18 in x 24 in 08/2021 I wanted to replace the "Prism in 92 colors" that UK HealthCare bought in the exhibition at the Louden House. But this time, I added even more colors, and made sure to keep track of how many I used as I went along. 111 colors in total spanning the entire visual spectrum. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/athrowofstones monthly 0.5 2024-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/a8af73d5-e692-401a-a1de-8d8e2ccf7481/A+Throw+of+Stones+-+revised+-+4-25-24.jpg Blog - A Throw of Stones - 24 in x 36 in 08/2021 In this piece, I tried to use a variety of colors that stones might be found in nature. This painting was done as a grid, but on a rectangular canvas, so I made the segments rectangular instead of square. Each earth tone color takes up 6 segments, and when it was completed, it reminded me of a bunch of stones thrown (albeit in a very linear/geometric pattern). A few years later, I went back to it and added inner rectangles in each of the shapes to give it added interest and complexity. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/anexplorationofbark monthly 0.5 2023-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/2a11c010-5500-4a51-a1a3-f6a1d26c9959/An+Exploration+of+Bark+.jpg Blog - An Exploration of Bark - 12 in x 12 in 07/2020 This painting was my first attempt at impasto – putting texture into the paint. It actually grew out of a mistake - I applied tape over the bright silver to make crisp edges for the next column, but before I removed the tape before the silver was fully dry, and doing so tore huge chunks of the silver away from the canvas. Initially horrified, I took a second look and realized that it had left an interesting pattern, so I played around with other textures and thought about tree bark when I kept going. I can’t say that deliberately ripping off still moist paint from the canvas has become something I do regularly, but it taught me a lot about how different colors dry at different times, and that the metallic dry more slowly for some reason. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/invertedrainbowsquare monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/c5f0e52f-0cc9-4bd1-901c-05e6c612397b/Inverse+Rainbow+Squared.JPG Blog - Inverted Rainbow Square - 20 in x 20 in Acrylic on Canvas 2023 $500 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 This painting was made after I initially produced "Rainbow Square", but here I reversed the order of the prism from the previous version. So instead of starting with red in the center and following the ROYGBV pattern toward the periphery, this one starts with purple in the middle and then moves VBGYOR outward. This is one way to fit a rainbow on a square canvas. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/bluetetrisgrid monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/be6648e3-f3ae-4278-b316-10b62b1a78ba/Blue+Tetris+Grid.JPG Blog - Blue Tetris Grid - 20 in x 24 in - 07/2021 I made this one for my wife’s office. She loves the repetitive pattern of a grid, and blues very much appeal to her. I was challenged by the failure of the canvas to adequately hold the paint in place (it would peel off along the edges when tape was removed), but managed to finish the piece to her satisfaction. It currently hangs behind her desk at work. Finding good canvases to do this kind of geometric painting can be challenging – they should be drum-tight (not sag) and be primed so that acrylic paints adhere sufficiently so as not to come off easily when tape is removed. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/freedom monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/4338d78e-23e9-420b-8a60-431f74b8e86f/Freedom+.JPG Blog - Freedom - 13 in x 21 in 06/2021 This was a collaboration with my daughter Julia. We made this Independence Day themed piece together. It's in the seasonal rotation at home for display in late June - early July. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/awalkinthewoods monthly 0.5 2025-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/bbd787d6-4518-4d5e-abf1-cb3455a51ab6/A+Walk+in+the+Woods+-+rejuvenated+-+6-25.jpg Blog - A Walk in the Woods - 14 in x 18 in 06/2021, rejuvenated 6/25 This painting was originally done to match a mirror that was outlined in reclaimed wood in shades of teals, blues and natural colors laid down in horizontal slats. I used similar colors as those in the mirror, and the painting is quite complementary to the mirror. I named it “A Walk in the Woods” because many of the colors used were rather like those my family and I have experienced on hikes in the forest and by lakes. Four years later, we decided to donate it to a pediatric oncology charity event, and for that, I added the impasto metallic shapes and the circular dots. A colleague suggested changing the name to “A Walk in the Woods, with a Glass of Champagne”. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/aquacrash monthly 0.5 2023-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1669103531163-TP65TNQTFL0PBV4A3C8P/aqua+crash.JPG Blog - Aqua Crash - 20 in x 24 in 06/2021 I was envisioning a shattered window when I painted this one. I chose blues, aquas, greens and teals as the colors. It was fun painting a distorted-yet-still-orderly picture. Outlining the segments in black made the colors “pop”. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/orangeaskew monthly 0.5 2023-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/68563579-76ad-4eb4-ab36-59ec8224f314/Orange+Askew.JPG Blog - Orange Askew - 14 in x 18 in 05/2021 I had the idea of making smaller paintings that could rotate in and out of a prominent place in the family room, varying with seasons or holidays. The idea here was to lay down concentric rectangles but then to purposely make them uneven, to give a distorted feeling to the piece. My attempt on this one was for a Halloween-themed piece (hence the oranges and blacks), but it turned out a bit more Dr. Seuss-like according to Julia. Still, I love how it looks like a Twilight Zone introductory scene, and it has made it, in October, in the family room rotation. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/blackholesun monthly 0.5 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/fa7916bb-9083-42ea-967b-c79072cda3bb/Black+Hole+Sun+5-22.jpg Blog - Black Hole Sun - 20 in x 20 in 05/2021 I originally made this painting in May 2021 with the idea of painting the geometric interior of this piece entirely of metallic paints with the outside of checkerboard bright yellows, oranges and reds, adding texture into the by bouncing the brush in the squares. When it was all finished, the painting reminded me of a dark sun, hence the name "Black Hole Sun". But three years later, we pulled it out of the closet and realized that it just didn’t work; the big sun was too dark. So I revised the painting in May 2024 by putting in the bright starburst array in the center of the geometric sun, and with that additional element incorporated, I now think the painting is much improved. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/helios monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9e9a3725-3570-48d5-a7ba-16cc754e1827/Helios.JPG Blog - Helios - 20 in x 20 in 05/2021 I was inspired for this painting soon after I saw an oriole on one of my bird feeders. I had binoculars, and was star-struck by the brilliance of the oranges and yellows in its feathers. It was like a piece of the sun, right there in my backyard. So in honor of the oriole, and rich in yellows and oranges, I made this symmetrical piece to represent Helios, the Sun God. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/with-sarah-in-mind monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/02348c3b-a421-4876-b4be-b42d31f81520/With+Sarah+in+Mind.jpg Blog - With Sarah in Mind - 18 in x 26 in 03/2020 My wife Sarah’s favorite color combination is blues and browns, and I was thinking of her when I painted this piece. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/fantasyincopper monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/a39ee8ad-2465-4162-9689-b0833929c6b7/Fantasy+in+Copper.JPG Blog - Fantasy in Copper - 18 in x 18 in 04/2021 I’ve done several symmetric paintings on square canvases and symmetry, yet each time I make one, I see different patterns and possibilities. After I’ve laid down the precise grid using rulers and pencil, I step back from the canvas and see different possibilities. I also reconsider the piece as it evolves when I add colors, considering how much of a certain color the piece needs, what final color balance the painting should have (lighter, darker, more of one color or another) and how best to bring out interesting patterns and shapes. As a result, despite many paintings beginning with similar grids, they always seem to turn out differently compared to other square symmetry paintings. I’ve learned to treat the gridlines that I’ve laid down more as suggestions than boundaries that must be preserved. This painting was made with coppers, reds, oranges and yellows. When all the colors have been put down, I reconsider it one last time whether it should have additional lines to break up the piece or highlight certain shapes. That’s what I did here with thin black lines, to emphasize crosses from all corners and from the middles of the edges (kind of like the Union Jack flag). https://jadartstudio.com/blog/allarewelcomehere monthly 0.5 2023-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/db655aa8-38b3-48d5-a99f-81f58a61997a/All+are+Welcome+Here.jpg Blog - All Are Welcome Here - 14 in x 18 in 04/2021 This was the second of my paintings done to call attention to racial injustice in our society. Using the many colors of human skin and hair pigmentation, I have attempted to make something beautiful out of the patchwork of different human complexions. Together we are more than any one of us, and we all fit together like pieces of a puzzle. I donated this to the 2021 Women in Medicine silent auction at the University of Kentucky. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/allmelaninsarebeautiful monthly 0.5 2023-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/db658801-28f1-4c0b-b824-c0944ad5801c/All+Melanins+are+Beautiful.JPG Blog - All Melanins are Beautiful - 10 in x 20 in 04/2021 After national events highlighting racial injustice, I painted this piece trying to make something beautiful out of the various tones of human pigmentation (including albinism and graying hair). I donated this to the 2021 Women in Medicine silent auction at the University of Kentucky. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/thankful monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/d1efab8a-b386-4db9-9443-1d56e4083822/Thankful.JPG Blog - Thankful - 13 in x 21 in 09/2021 I made this Thanksgiving themed piece to join the rotation of 13x21 paintings that we change out with the seasons in our home. Here, I wanted to emphasize Fall golds, browns and oranges. Each of us have things to be thankful for, no matter who we are, or what we have, or our status in the world. This image is mirrored to represent how it is helpful to "look in the mirror" every now and then to take stock of ourselves as we consider what each of us has to be thankful for. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/eringobraugh monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/27c2f4f2-17f9-45de-bdae-a1508f501de6/Erin+Go+Braugh.JPG Blog - Erin Go Braugh! - 14 in x 18 in 4/2021 This painting is my geometric vision of St. Patrick's day, in emerald greens and golds. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/thinkingofmalachite monthly 0.5 2023-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f66268af-f77f-4d73-bd36-2c689a03978c/Thinking+of+Malechite.JPG Blog - Thinking of Malachite - 20 in x 20 in 03/2021 I wanted to paint a symmetrical piece in greens, teals, golds and blues. I found that outlining some of the lines in black brought out the shape of a central cross in the piece. I added some texture using transparent acrylics by bouncing the brush, which makes those shapes stand out. In the end, I called it “Thinking of Malachite” because its rich hues reminded me of the green mineral that I find so beautiful. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/primary-grid monthly 0.5 2024-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/52915e46-9a99-48a1-a4b3-889fddd593ed/D%27Orazio+-+Primary+Grid.jpg Blog - Primary Grid - 18 in x 24 in 03/2021 The inspiration for this piece came a few years ago at the San Francisco Museum of Modern art when my daughter Julia, dressed in a bright red coat, made her way through a spider web-like room-sized maze. I wanted to make a web-like grid filled in here and there with bright blue, bright red and bright yellow. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/depthperception monthly 0.5 2024-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/08391535-2935-4061-be5f-b26c12bb331b/Depth+Perception+-+photo+from+7-24.jpg Blog - Depth Perception - 20 in x 20 in 02/2021 This painting was one of the first times I added highlight lines after all the colors had been laid down. I decided to put thin black lines coming in centrally from the corners to give depth to the piece. I also used several “transparent” acrylics that are see through, and laid them down in a pattern matching the angles and positions of the shapes coming from the center. I used warm golds, coppers, browns, reds, oranges and muted yellows for this piece. Symmetry was what I was going for in this one, and when I was finished with the piece, I was struck at how "3-D" it looked. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/cupidsarrow monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/e41d5aa4-6353-48af-9cc3-94ad31a35fe0/Cupid%27s+Arrow.JPG Blog - Cupid’s Arrow - 14 in x 18 in - 02/2021 I was thinking of love and passion when I made this piece to represent Valentine’s Day. What a gift it is to genuinely be loved and to love others. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/frenetic monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/edf6e4fd-badf-4205-bbac-03bf26bf3ebe/Frenetic.JPG Blog - Frenetic - 16 in x 20 in 01/2021 This was one of two paintings that was my very first painting shown in a gallery - the Louden House that hosts the Lexington Art League. To me, this piece speaks to frenetic energy, made up of grays, blacks, whites and the three primary colors. It’s a complicated grid without symmetry but with a lot of “action”. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/oculus monthly 0.5 2024-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/c8b775f4-9048-44f9-9462-aa6e836ef490/Oculus+-+redone+10-24.jpg Blog - Oculus - 22 in x 22 in 12/2022 I got the idea for Oculus on a plane ride while thinking of new directions for my art. I wanted to explore circular shapes, and as I was thinking about possibilities, I kept thinking of the roof of the Pantheon in Rome. I have visited that ancient building twice in my life, and I’ve never failed to be impressed by the geometry in the ceiling. My version is much less elaborate, and I painted “Oculus” without looking at a picture of the Pantheon ceiling beforehad. I ended up with concentric circles of increasing size using neutral colors with a "hole" in the middle opening up to the sky on a pitch-black night. It originally had a bright blue sky in the hole but it somehow didn’t look right so I changed it to pitch black. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/northern-star monthly 0.5 2024-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/85cac060-8345-4fba-882f-8e165c732cdb/Northern+Star+-+revamped+5-24.jpg Blog - Northern Star - 24 in x 30 in 12/20, revamped 5/24 I was thinking of a central star pattern, framed by an ethereal and expanding radiant pattern and inserts to complement the center, all surrounded by a rim that mimics a frame. It went through a few different iterations. I sort of forgot about it, tucked it away in the basement closet, but a few years after I first painted it, I got it out and I did some revamping of it, adding complexity and insets to (hopefully) improve it. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/blackwhiteandsixcolors monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/632a5fd9-e81d-43ad-ba85-1e8d2346dd10/Black%2C+White%2C+and+6+Colors.JPG Blog - Black, White and Six Colors - 16 in x 20 in Acrylic on Canvas 2021 $280 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 Here, I explored the color wheel with six primary colors - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet, and simply mixed into each either white or increasing amounts of black to generate different hues of each color. I used a geometric compass to lay down a circular grid but made the lines straight between shapes. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/grandprismatic monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f8cd0445-dbde-4669-b83b-f741f22ee7f5/Grand+Prismatic.JPG Blog - Grand Prismatic - 24 in x 30 in Acrylic on Belgian Linen 2020 $950 featured in the “Prismatic” exhibition, Lexington Arts League , 2024 I've long been fascinated by the ROYGBV prism, and as I was painting this, I was inspired by the Grand Prismatic Spring of Yellowstone National Park in which heat-loving bacteria grow in every shade of the rainbow. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/hereslookingatyou monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/86bf9422-c12b-4fbf-9afe-31b21350c828/Here%27s+Looking+at+You+.JPG Blog - Here’s Looking At You - 10 in x 20 in 10/2020 The "eye" in the middle of the painting reminds me of the many Turkish glass ornaments I've seen to ward off the evil eye. So when I see this one, I think of it looking out at me. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/yellowgiraffe monthly 0.5 2023-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/796b7377-1398-4cb2-b47f-7b16f7032b28/Yellow+Giraffe+%28For+Scott%29.jpg Blog - Yellow Giraffe - 20 in x 24 in 10/2020 I wanted to paint a piece for my best and oldest friend Scott who lives in Washington DC. He looked over some of my work and liked “Patchwork Giraffe”, so I mimicked that piece but used yellows, browns and golds to match the décor of his home. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/geode monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/bd8571bf-1f42-45db-afab-41972e8c5bbc/Geodes.JPG Blog - Geode - 24 in x 36 in 10/2020 This is one of the largest paintings I've done, and for this one, I chose a color palette of neutrals and golds, with black interiors. I used a relatively broad painter’s type tape to border the shapes (putting the edge of the tape at the edge of the shapes) and applied black in the middle of any shape where the border tape left a space. I then put thin black lines around each shape to highlight them against the white background. This painting took many hours to do! It reminded me of a bunch of geodes, hence the title. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/winter-deconstructed-taas5 monthly 0.5 2024-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/90b1a139-61ff-4165-bde5-e51e3e17f6e4/The+Four+Seasons+-+Winter.jpg Blog - The Four Seasons: Winter Deconstructed - 24 in x 24 in 08/2020 This is one of 4 complementary stripe paintings with the colors and textures chosen to represent the particular season of the year. I want the viewer to feel the cold of winter in this piece. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/summer-deconstructed-lkj83 monthly 0.5 2024-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f39c2053-9746-4455-b5fb-d7499c3dac4d/The+Four+Seasons+-+Summer.jpg Blog - The Four Seasons: Summer Deconstructed - 24 in x 24 in 08/2020 This is one of 4 complementary stripe paintings with the colors and textures chosen to represent the particular season of the year. "Summer" is full of sunshine and verdant hues. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/spring-deconstructed monthly 0.5 2024-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/4d5a01ba-494a-4b5c-a175-a3911a349a75/The+Four+Seasons+-+Spring.jpg Blog - The Four Seasons: Spring Deconstructed - 24 in x 24 in 08/2020 This is one of 4 complementary stripe paintings with the colors and textures chosen to represent the particular season of the year. "Spring" highlights the blush of new growth and the pastelled hues of Springtime flowers. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/autumnleaves monthly 0.5 2023-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f546f9ed-1315-4266-baad-cd0feb6c3831/Autumn+Leaves.JPG Blog - Autumn Leaves - 8 in x 24 in 08/2020 This painting was an early piece in which I explored the interesting textures that could result from transparent acrylic colors. I found that by swirling and bouncing the brush during application, the colors seemed to glow on the canvas. I called this “Autumn Leaves” because I used a Fall color palette. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/fall-deconstructed monthly 0.5 2024-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/75be5618-b16f-4300-91f2-65fde7b842d2/The+Four+Seasons+-+Fall.jpg Blog - The Four Seasons: Fall or Autumn Deconstructed - 24 in x 24 in 08/2020 This is one of 4 complementary stripe paintings with the colors and textures chosen to represent the particular season of the year. "Fall" was the first one I painted, and is made up of the rich russets and golds of a changing Autumn landscape. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/greenfibonacci monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/b61762a2-96ea-441f-971f-685fdf68b239/Green+Fibonacci.JPG Blog - Green Fibonacci - 18 in x 30 in 07/2020 I bought a canvas whose dimensions conformed to the “Golden Ratio” whose dimensions conform to the Fibonacci sequence and what has been used by many artists over the years. Apparently, the length x width ratio is subconsciously pleasing, and having read "The DaVinci Code", I thought it would be interesting to try out this shape. The ratio of the canvas is based on the "Divine Proportion" (also known as Phi), and the aspect is 1.62:1. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/tribal monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/e7f1e932-b5b5-4206-9335-b25975cacf8a/Tribal+.JPG Blog - Tribal - 18 in x 24 in 07/2020 I was going for symmetry here and it struck me as a very primitive pattern reminiscent of a tribal icon. I donated this painting to the Kentucky Cancer Alliance's silent auction. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/possibility monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/d23b982c-5c01-4ea6-9951-dd8ec4814f8a/Possibility+.JPG Blog - Possibility - 18 in x 26 in 06/2020 This painting was among the most difficult and complex paintings I've done. So many layers of patterns and colors – all in blues and browns on a cream background. At the end, I was so happy to call it done, but I really couldn't think of an apt title, so I left it open, and called it "Possibility". https://jadartstudio.com/blog/transparent-triangles monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/a463f78d-b3d3-45d5-8d28-1a40634bbf88/Transparent+Triangles.JPG Blog - Transparent Triangles - 8 in x 24 in 06/2020 This was the very first painting in which I deliberately used only transparent colors, but done before I learned how to add texture to the transparent colors by bouncing or swirling the brush during application. The painting is a combination of triangles and lines in overlapping transparent warm colors. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/pink-eye monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9d43dc38-cb09-49e9-8573-78c36975e827/Pink+Eye.JPG Blog - Pink Eye - 18 in x 24 in 06/2020 My goal here was a counter-current interplay of gradually darkening pink outlines (going toward the center) intermixed with gradually lightening grey shapes (going toward the perimeter). To me, it ended up looking like a central eye, and I came up with the name “Pink Eye” as a sort of play on conjunctivitis (also known as pink eye). My daughter took this one to Vassar where she hung it up on the wall in her living room in her apartment. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/falltransparency monthly 0.5 2023-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/7a30b578-259e-47cc-8646-2b0f1126e9cb/Fall+Transparency+.JPG Blog - Fall Transparency - 8 in x 24 in 06/2020 In this piece, I played around with "transparent" acrylic colors, which I found had an interesting look when applied to the canvas in a bouncy manner (rather than just smeared on with a brush). This one evoked the feeling of Fall to me. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/bluestripes monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/7bfd04e6-fafd-4372-b23d-91ee44db39c2/Blue+Stripes.JPG Blog - Blue Stripes - 16 in x 20 in - 06/2020 I made this blue striped piece for my work office, to match a lovely pour painting made by some of the pediatric oncology patients in our clinic. I made it all in blue and white to complement the University of Kentucky’s colors. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/pebbles-in-a-stream monthly 0.5 2025-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/10e1a973-01cb-430a-a84c-7ca2c14ed164/Pebbles+in+a+Stream+-+rejuvenated+1-25.jpg Blog - Pebbles in a Stream - 18 in x 26 in 05/2020 This painting was made for my daughter Julia. She had a high school teacher used to make doodles like the pattern in this painting. Julia learned it, and I liked it, so I thought I would try the pattern out in a painting. The teacher, who was a wonderful person, died at a young age from breast cancer – such a tragedy – so this painting was made to honor her memory. There are four larger pieces with impasto and a metallic finish that reminded me of water, and looking at the shapes reminded me of an experience in Glacier National Park looking at small pebbles in a crystal clear stream. Almost 5 years after I originally painted it, I decided to “rejuvenate” it by adding complexity to the piece by adding silver borders for each of the shapes and inserts or glazing techniques into many of them. The rejuvenated version is what is indicated here. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/bluesforjenny monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/11e5a7a8-0f85-41f1-a462-dc6e01264d7e/Blues+for+Jenny.JPG Blog - Blues For Jenny - 18 in x 18 in - 05/2020 I thought of a concentric maze-like pattern and it reminded my daughter of classic Greek shapes. I originally intended it for her room which is outfitted in purple, but she thinks there's too much magenta and pink in it for that space. Well, I like how it looks nonetheless! https://jadartstudio.com/blog/patchworkgiraffe monthly 0.5 2024-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/ae800728-ab76-42f1-bcee-afee0eedca72/Patchwork+Giraffe+-+photo+from+7-24.jpg Blog - Patchwork Giraffe - 20 in x 24 in 05/2020 My daughter had a teacher in high school who used to decorate her blackboard with these kinds of geometric doodles. It appealed to me when I saw it because it fit with my geometric style. This was a painting I made for our guest room which is filled with warm earthy colors. I used muted browns, golds, reds and oranges to match the room. I painted it soon after “Eggshell Explosion” and continued the trend of using off-white lines to separate the shapes, but in this one, I added an extra dimension of color within the shapes to make it more interesting. This painting reminds me of the reticulated patterning of a giraffe, which inspired its name. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/desertsands monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/d669f415-1644-49f3-8dcb-4e931049680e/Desert+Sands.jpg Blog - Desert Sands - 8 in x 24 in 05/2020 The shifting pattern of tans and neutrals reminds me of windswept dunes in the desert. I like it best in a horizontal rather than a vertical orientation. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/eggshellexplosion monthly 0.5 2024-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/822ae9c0-c047-4de7-bf4f-8e2d559e8272/Eggshell+Explosion+-+photo+from+7-24.jpg Blog - Eggshell Explosion - 18 in x 24 in 1/2020 This was my first painting with bordering lines in a color other than black. My daughter suggested light-colored lines, and I was hesitant at first, but I changed my mind when I realized the warm tones of the piece could look good with ivory or off-white lines. I added some yellow (I think it was Naples Yellow Hue) to Titanium white to generate the “eggshell” color that gives the painting its name. To me, it resembles an orderly but progressive explosion of warm colors. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/matrix monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/e8b51da6-b5d5-4ac8-b157-4f3e8a2d5526/Matrix.jpg Blog - Matrix - 18 in x 24 in 04/2020 This painting was one of my first pieces without using dark or light lines to separate shapes. I intentionally made squares and rectangles of different sizes and shapes, and used greens, teals and blues to fill them in. I think of a matrix network when I look at the finished painting. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/woven-spotlight monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/8ad25678-97be-4f66-8f21-dd55bad30c36/Woven+Spotlight+.JPG Blog - Woven Spotlight - 20 in x 20 in 04/2020 This was one of my earliest square symmetric paintings and also one of the first ones in which I incorporated a black-to-white ombre effect. It’s a bit startling because it’s disjointed considering the hot colors in the middle with the edges painted in neutrals. The middle part looks woven to me, and the border reminds me of a Hollywood spotlight. I entered this into a UK HealthCare Employee Art Call, and they asked me whether I’d be interested to donate it for beautifying the hospital (which I agreed to do). https://jadartstudio.com/blog/brownstarburst monthly 0.5 2025-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/d585854b-11dd-4d9e-87bd-ad37dfd954d5/Brown+Starburst+-+updated+8-25.jpg Blog - Brown Starburst - 18 in x 24 in - 04/2020 Like an exploding star, this one seems to either be coming at you or receding away, depending on your mood and perspective. There used to be an off-green light brown in the painting, but over time I decided that it didn’t fit so this painting was “rehabilitated” and I changed the color to a metallic bronze months after it was initially finished. Then, in August of 2025, I pulled it out of the storage closet, and considered that I could modify it even further to make it compatible with the “Complexion” exhibit. I added insets, lines and dots in various colors of human pigmentation. Finally, I think it has matured into what I wanted it to be. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/trying-out-triangles monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/fd7170c0-ae2c-44f9-9a23-a707de0a9b91/Trying+Out+Triangles.JPG Blog - Trying Out Triangles - 16 in x 20 in 03/2020 This painting represents the first time I moved away from the Mondrian-type squares and rectangles and tried out triangles and other shapes. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/interferencepurple monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/c8cc2cf0-041c-440b-aba3-51a772de9062/Interference+Purple.JPG Blog - Interference Purple - 16 in x 20 in 03/2020 I used purples and browns and interference purple which results in a purple shimmer when looked at from the side. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/martyblues-6pnll monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/e215dc80-5a60-443c-8cb7-077374462557/Ode+to+Sadiemae.JPG Blog - Ode to Sadiemae - 20 in x 24 in 03/2020 I made this painting in honor of our dog Sadiemae, who passed away in early 2020. This was one of my first pieces in which I explored a white-gray-black ombre effect. I decided to make the center colorful, to reflect the richness she brought to our home. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/covid19 monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1344f515-5df9-4257-ac1b-f88c9b48a255/COVID-19.JPG Blog - COVID-19 - 18 in x 36 in - 03/2020 When I painted this piece, it was early in the COVID pandemic, and I thought about the virus bouncing around from person to person. That’s the image I kept in mind as I developed the middle of the painting, envisioning viral transmission early in the pandemic. Then I added brown edging to mimic a frame. I called it COVID 19, but it also looks to me like a stained glass window. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/apurplewebforjulia monthly 0.5 2023-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/6d164b10-3a51-43f0-accc-040bfa4e862f/A+Purple+Web+for+Julia+.jpg Blog - A Purple Web for Julia - 30 in x 30 in 03/2020 I painted this one on the request of my daughter Julia, who wanted a painting filled with purple – her favorite color – for her room. I used several shades of purple in the piece, separated by black lines in a pattern that reminded me of a spider web. She has it hanging in a prominent place on the wall – an overdose of purple! https://jadartstudio.com/blog/sienna-rainbow monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/dc277a33-b2a4-4c50-aab7-5c3173b6dbf1/Rainbow+Sienna.jpg Blog - Sienna Rainbow - 18 in x 24 in 03/2020 This was my first “rainbow” painting, but you’d never know it by looking at it. Each shape is colored with raw sienna- a beautiful brown- either on its own or mixed with a variety of colors in the ROYGBV spectrum. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/primavera monthly 0.5 2024-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/8f317819-2564-4541-8139-34272fb3b7f6/Primavera+-+with+insets+10-24.jpg Blog - Primavera - 16 in x 20 in 03/2020 The greens of this grid remind me of the colors of Spring, or “Primavera” in either Spanish or Italian. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/formomanddad monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1e1db00c-fe73-4972-b76e-d6f1b2259736/For+Mom+and+Dad.jpg Blog - For Mom and Dad - 16 in x 20 in 02/2020 I went through a very difficult period in my professional life and realized through that process just how important family is. My family supported me and loved me and helped me overcome my trevails. As a thank you, I painted Mondrian-type pictures for each, with colors chosen to match their décor. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/fortom monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/b95f2568-0463-4548-87bb-3328fd15cd8a/For+Tom+and+Family.jpg Blog - For Tom and Family - 16 in x 20 in 02/2020 I went through a very difficult period in my professional life and realized through that process just how important family is. My family supported me and loved me and helped me overcome my trevails. As a thank you, I painted Mondrian-type pictures for each, with colors chosen to match their décor. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/forpamela monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/691e5b76-8b59-42ce-a6f5-7be30c24a1fa/For+Pam+and+Family.jpg Blog - For Pamela and Family - 16 in x 20 in 02/2020 I went through a very difficult period in my professional life and realized through that process just how important family is. My family supported me and loved me and helped me overcome my trevails. As a thank you, I painted Mondrian-type pictures for each, with colors chosen to match their décor. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/forkidscanceralliance monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/10fc1294-ad83-45cc-b36e-71ffa865d1cc/For+the+Kids+Cancer+Alliance.JPG Blog - For Kids Cancer Alliance - 16 in x 20 in 02/2020 This was my first painting made for a silent fundraising auction to help children with cancer. I chose to make it a rainbow theme, and it did pretty well in the auction. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/foralaina monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/c06a3ddd-a2ee-4a52-b707-d3c4499fade3/For+Alaina+and+Family.jpg Blog - For Alaina and Family - 16 in x 20 in 02/2020 I went through a very difficult period in my professional life and realized through that process just how important family is. My family supported me and loved me and helped me overcome my trevails. As a thank you, I painted Mondrian-type pictures for each, with colors chosen to match their décor. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/halloweenpumpkins monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/0143d73e-1710-453e-8d9d-d56b6c1a6624/Halloween+Pumpkins.JPG Blog - Halloween Pumpkins: a Collaboration of JADs - 10 in x 20 in 01/2020 This is one of the only paintings that Julia and I collaborated on. I did the background, and Julia painted the pumpkins. It comes out every October in the house. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/dancebluecollaboration monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f1e4e457-4cc7-4420-9c08-320e46570138/Dance+Blue+Collaboration+.JPG Blog - DanceBlue Collaboration - 24 in x 36 in (center) - 01/2020 This trio represents a collaboration between my daughter Julia and I. The pediatric hematology/oncology clinic in which I work has benefitted from the remarkable support and generosity of a University of Kentucky student-led philanthropic organization called “DanceBlue”. It was originally the brainchild of two dedicated and perseverant women who teamed up with a lasting philanthropic vision in mind. As a tribute to the organization, we made this trio. I painted the large Mondrian-like centerpiece and Julia painted the smaller paintings at both ends one representing the University of Kentucky, and the other the DanceBlue organization featuring the pediatric oncology ribbon of hope. It hangs in our clinic conference room. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/astudyinbrown monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/193a6395-d87d-443e-8449-6965f26a0d9f/A+Study+in+Browns.jpg Blog - A Study in Brown - 20 in x 24 in 1/2020 This was among my very first paintings. I turned to painting to deal with an unexpected and terrible situation at work. I found painting to be an “escape” from all of this, but I had no training as an artist per se. I liked to paint, but my skills as an artist were elementary. I remembered seeing some works of Piet Mondrian in various museums like the National Gallery in Washington, DC, and I figured “well, I could try that style” since it looked straightforward and within reach. “A Study in Brown” was my very first Mondrian-style painting. It was fun to lay down the grid with rulers, figure out which tapes to use to give the crispest lines, and to highlight the individuality of various acrylic colors. Finding and making unique colors that went together was a challenge, but I enjoyed the process, and most of all, it allowed me to get absorbed in something other than my professional woes at the time. The color palette was chosen to exactly match our entrance hallway, and that is where it remains today. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/prism-in-92-colors monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/a9d70ff1-64cf-4205-ad59-b524b6a868b5/Prism+in+92+Colors.JPG Blog - Prism in 92 Colors - 18 in x 24 in 01/2020 This was my first painting that sold. I entered it into an employee art call where I work (at UK HealthCare), and it was one of two of mine chosen for an exhibition at the Louden House where the Lexington Art League is based. UK HealthCare bought at the end of the exhibition. The funniest part of the story on this painting was that Sarah, Julia and I counted the number of colors many times before we could all agree that there were in fact 92 distinct linear hues. My vision for this piece was a gradual rainbow of colors in the ROYGBIV tradition but with all manner of hues for each color. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/to-julia-love-dad monthly 0.5 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/57f1d227-0ca9-431e-922a-c71eea9a3b6d/To+Julia+Love+Dad+-+Bedroom+.JPG Blog - To Julia, Love Dad: Bedroom - 16 in x 20 in 01/2020 I made this one for my daughter, who's room in the house is purple, green, and blue. https://jadartstudio.com/blog/70sthrowback monthly 0.5 2023-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9532c6e8-79bd-430b-9222-57fae3cec5d6/70s+Throwback.JPG Blog - 70’s Throwback - 24 in x 36 in 08/2019 This painting was made to match my work office; one wall is cream-yellow and the other is sage green. https://jadartstudio.com/about-the-artist daily 0.75 2024-11-13 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9e694017-d7e0-40cf-8303-2b9df6c7aebc/IMG_7379.png Work - Prism Series "Dentate Prism," aka "Rainbow Teeth," 11/2022, 20 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f8cd0445-dbde-4669-b83b-f741f22ee7f5/Grand+Prismatic.JPG Work - Prism Series "Grand Prismatic," 11/2020, 24 in x 30 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1676974866360-R50HI3N4TGSSZS0HHWEE/Hot%2Band%2BCold.jpg Work - Prism Series "Hot and Cold," 8/2022, 20 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1676974932617-I0H1XHB0MANJI00AZI84/Inifinity%2BPrism.jpg Work - Prism Series "Infinity Prism," 9/2021, 18 in x 18 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1676974990798-8XQP7YYL428BIOWC5QZS/Inverse%2BRainbow%2BSquared.jpg Work - Prism Series "Inverted Rainbow Square," 7/2021, 20 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/a9d70ff1-64cf-4205-ad59-b524b6a868b5/Prism+in+92+Colors.JPG Work - Prism Series "Prism in 92 Colors," 1/2020, 18 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/bba569be-ec82-42bd-b182-5676c909af0a/Prism+in+111+Colors.JPG Work - Prism Series "Prism in 111 Colors," 8/2021, 18 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1676975031259-W99RXIYVB7MXW0KR6BV6/Rainbow%2BColumns.jpg Work - Prism Series "Rainbow Columns," 7/2022, 18 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/0638ff9e-0dda-455c-a0f3-0c9ffbda2de9/Rainbow+Grid.JPG Work - Prism Series "Rainbow Grid," 8/2022, 18 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/28ac9b2a-d1ae-4911-b104-a05d5fee3615/Rainbow+Kaleidoscope.JPG Work - Prism Series "Rainbow Kaleidoscope," 11/2022, 20 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/0b1f2da6-0064-4c6c-a82c-1c66e6c724f2/Rainbow+Prism-+Extended.JPG Work - Prism Series "Rainbow Prism - Extended," 8/2022, 20 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/4b8c80bb-8e9e-4e9a-bf95-06f109794553/Rainbow+Triangles-+Left+Handed.JPG Work - Prism Series "Rainbow Triangles, Left-Handed," 8/2021, 16 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/fd2efb9e-0e58-410a-9c12-77f1193e29e9/Stained+Glass+Prism+.JPG Work - Prism Series "Stained Glass Prism," 8/2022, 13 in x 21 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/3dc91286-df48-4ba4-9bf7-46cad265578b/IMG_7421.jpeg Work - Prism Series "Rainbow Millipede," 11/22, 20 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/d5da50e1-4bd6-48d4-9070-fb35d720407f/Rainbow+Hominid+1-23.jpg Work - Prism Series "Rainbow Hominid" 1/2023, 22 in x 28 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/75f5011e-2a90-4690-a363-8df3514878da/Matrix+Prism+4-23.jpg Work - Prism Series "Matrix Prism," 4/23, 24 in x 31 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/5998c938-8b2a-4ae7-8536-0809c5d64bba/Rainbow+Target+5-23.jpg Work - Prism Series "Rainbow Target," 5/23, 22 in x 22 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/a97a25e4-8c29-4d4b-b324-5f654b1255a9/Tortoiseshell+Rainbow+-+8-23.jpg Work - Prism Series Reticulated Rainbow, 24 in x 31 in, 8/23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/84443b12-1522-4313-894c-f8f9d8ae98e6/Supernova+9-23.jpg Work - Prism Series "Supernova", 9/23, 40 in x 40 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/04fcc6b2-b255-4478-bb26-b787d659054a/Pulsar+9-23.jpg Work - Prism Series "Pulsar," 9/23, 20 in x 02 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/224a58dd-ce3b-4a08-ba9c-19f7fddaf800/Rainbow+Triangles+10-23.jpg Work - Prism Series "Rainbow Triangles", 18 in x 29 in, 10/23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f1bd55fb-aaee-4b7d-912f-f82b6cc2cc88/Candy+Cane+Rainbow+10-23.jpg Work - Prism Series "Candy Cane Rainbow" 10/23, 21 in x 34 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/3ae76b3b-baa6-4177-889a-b682881ee71c/Rainbow+Cube+10-23+-+2.jpg Work - Prism Series "Rainbow Cube" 10/23, 15 in x 15 in x 15 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/2a047909-35d8-4a55-9e8e-4196249e879c/Quilted+Rainbow+Target+for+Amanda+11-23.jpg Work - Prism Series "Quilted Target Rainbow for Amanda", 11/23, 22 in x 22 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9309af53-6f33-4780-b989-133965a25e0d/Dotted+Rainbow+Target+-+12-23.jpg Work - Prism Series "Aboriginal Prism" 12/23, 22 in x 22 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/e60b67d2-1f94-4ee8-888d-624c78a8d11d/Cracked+Rainbow+Target+12-23.jpg Work - Prism Series "Through the Fractured Looking Glass", 12/23, 18 in x 29 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/ccfe3531-ab57-4caf-a5d5-66d7f62c9189/Cognitive+Dissonance+12-23.jpg Work - Prism Series "Cognitive Dissonance", 22 in x 22 in, 12/23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/6dea14e2-18f8-486b-a26d-e2440cac5244/Crocodile+Teeth+1-24.jpg Work - Prism Series "Crocodile Teeth," 1/24, 22 in x 28 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/22eeb4bf-5209-4fcf-a3a6-2142b932e63b/Rainbow+City+5-25.jpeg Work - Prism Series "Rainbow City," 5/25, 18 in x 29 in https://jadartstudio.com/work/the-four-seasons monthly 0.5 2022-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/74001621-1669-4368-b85c-b3827c1a90dd/The+Four+Seasons+-+Spring.jpg Work - Series: The Four Seasons "Spring," 24 in x 24 in, 8/20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/c61d1188-074e-4c91-a00b-66988d0844c6/The+Four+Seasons+-+Summer.jpg Work - Series: The Four Seasons "Summer," 24 in x 24 in, 8/20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/d5521ad9-8316-4b0d-8f4a-491e75a69966/The+Four+Seasons+-+Winter.jpg Work - Series: The Four Seasons "Winter," 24 in x 24 in, 8/20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/58847778-2e64-4cb5-9cdd-20df2e057118/The+Four+Seasons+-+Fall.jpg Work - Series: The Four Seasons "Fall," 24 in x 24 in, 8/20 https://jadartstudio.com/work/the-natural-elements monthly 0.5 2022-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/98f4c317-2912-4c1e-b2d9-42e4f37ac2b3/Strata+of+a+Living+Earth+2-26.jpeg Work - Series: The Natural Elements "Strata of a Living Earth," 2/26, 18 in x 29 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9d1b3f74-47e2-4e16-96a9-8843e7b362f3/Intergalactic+1-26.jpeg Work - Series: The Natural Elements "Intergalactic," 1/26, 24 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/33d5ca37-8fb5-429b-b44b-4d108a65dd16/On+the+Breeze+1-26.jpeg Work - Series: The Natural Elements "On the Breeze," 1/26, 13 in x 21 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/edd02125-800a-4b20-a972-f338850e2341/Violin+music+on+the+breeze+in+front+of+a+range+of+mountains.jpg Work - Series: The Natural Elements "Violin music on the breeze in front of mountains", 1/26, 18 in x 29 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/5ead61a2-d3b0-43bd-9504-140f9312d6c2/Elements-+Air.JPG Work - Series: The Natural Elements "The Natural Elements - Air", 12/21, 20 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/61149219-e01e-4bec-b226-0d7b8e4e4909/Elements-+Fire.JPG Work - Series: The Natural Elements "Fire," 11/21, 20 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/6a22236e-2e81-401f-80c5-5e5db9b936a4/Elements-+Land.JPG Work - Series: The Natural Elements "Land," 12/21, 20 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/d3934e55-c6d0-4f38-8e68-a5e7407afbc7/Elements-+Space.JPG Work - Series: The Natural Elements "Space," 1/22, 20 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/6f80917f-2114-4fb1-8681-93d441caf719/Elements-+Water.JPG Work - Series: The Natural Elements "Water," 12/21, 20 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/00a6aa0f-11f0-4e27-aaa6-a23e2432a4cd/Cross-section+of+a+River+3-23.jpg Work - Series: The Natural Elements "Cross-section of a River," 3/23, 13 in x 21 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/65394666-2f3d-4c27-ad13-1e3b00e3098f/Earth+Sea+and+Sky+5-23.jpg Work - Series: The Natural Elements "Earth, Sea and Sky", 5,23, 20 in x 24 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/ab2e9bbe-2cc5-41c3-a5c2-6a0daa8c6e44/Terra+Firma+1-25.jpg Work - Series: The Natural Elements "Terra Firma," 1/25, 22 in x 22 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/7e0e4c4a-e3be-4f9f-a2f0-8425a237aa6e/Interference+Air+2-25.jpg Work - Series: The Natural Elements "Interference Air," 2/25, 18 in x 29 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/0a03b606-639c-483b-93a5-4fb7cec7ed28/Sky+Diamonds+2-25.jpg Work - Series: The Natural Elements "Sky Diamonds," 2/25, 13 in x 21 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/29f26dce-f6df-46cf-b182-b9bd467f3486/Air+Flow+2-25.jpg Work - Series: The Natural Elements "Air Flow," 2/25, 22 in x 28 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/0a883c0f-e331-4183-989f-663a194ad714/Outer+Limits+12-25.jpeg Work - Series: The Natural Elements "Outer Limits", 12/25, 20 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1938c063-0952-4212-b299-6c10caf37ee3/Air+Pollution+1-26.jpeg Work - Series: The Natural Elements "Air Pollution," 1/26, 13 in x 21 in https://jadartstudio.com/work/holidays-celebrations monthly 0.5 2022-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/4048024a-4b00-4b1c-a306-3ff0b062ce8b/Geometric+Valentine+2-26.jpeg Work - Series: Holidays/Celebrations "Geometric Valentine," 2/26, 13 in x 21 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/3feac305-92cb-4de0-97e7-d17bbe9f6f9e/Harvest+12-25.jpeg Work - Series: Holidays/Celebrations "Harvest" 12/25, 13 in x 21 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/329fb39f-405a-4f1f-b5e8-13fe6fe925b7/Faberge+Noel+12-25.jpg Work - Series: Holidays/Celebrations "Faberge Noel" 12/25, 13 in x 21 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/a46a9b0d-be56-42c5-9534-ef122953ab9d/Valentino+2-23.jpg Work - Series: Holidays/Celebrations "Valentino" 2/23, 22 in x 22 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1676975827464-ED1T81AHXXNX8QL2JTD8/Cupid%2527s%2BArrow.jpg Work - Series: Holidays/Celebrations "Cupid's Arrow," 2/21, 14 in x 18 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1676975866031-IJ2X5V6UWWA4NBKD9WN0/Erin%2BGo%2BBraugh.jpg Work - Series: Holidays/Celebrations "Erin Go Braugh!" 4/21, 14 in x 18 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1676975925574-5VP0XUSZUPXB1B2TGZHV/Freedom%2B.jpg Work - Series: Holidays/Celebrations "Freedom," 6/21, 13 in x 21 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1676975974138-YCE6VG88XF3FBMF6AFI2/Halloween%2BPumpkins.jpg Work - Series: Holidays/Celebrations "Halloween Pumpkins: A Collaboration of JADs," 1/20, 10 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/d1efab8a-b386-4db9-9443-1d56e4083822/Thankful.JPG Work - Series: Holidays/Celebrations "Thankful," 9/21, 13 in x 21 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/e4ae1057-8bf2-4dd2-99f4-01c5e815bd36/Season%27s+Greetings.JPG Work - Series: Holidays/Celebrations "Season's Greetings!" 10/21, 14 in x 18 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/12a9c92e-55b6-4ee6-9b32-dd6d0bfeaa80/Northern+Star+-+revamped+5-24.jpg Work - Series: Holidays/Celebrations "Northern Star," 12/20, 24 in x 30 in, revamped 5-24 https://jadartstudio.com/work/melanins-are-beautiful monthly 0.5 2022-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/ae75c179-12aa-4fd4-861a-4e67fc4e02d2/Brown+Starburst+-+updated+8-25.jpg Work - Melanins are Beautiful "Brown Starburst," 13 in x 21, 5/22 and refurbished 8/25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1676975378806-FQWO9AC045MCP3O8UK0T/Humanity.jpg Work - Melanins are Beautiful "Humanity," 5/22, 13 in x 21. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/58848a39-9bb2-4904-8fc5-41ed3ee881ce/Pigment+Explosion.JPG Work - Melanins are Beautiful "Pigment Explosion," 6/22, 13 in x 21 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/c0a8deb2-38b8-4b72-a6a2-e7610f95d505/Melanin+Mosaic+5-24.jpg Work - Melanins are Beautiful "Melanin Mosaic", 5/24, 18 in x 29 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/32337d38-682c-41b5-8724-3fa63b656f5e/Melanin+Stripes+6-24.jpg Work - Melanins are Beautiful "Melanin Stripes", 14 in x 28 in, 6/24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/c3d4e636-57d1-47e2-921c-6f24e7a48f2e/Pigment+Starburst+6-24.jpg Work - Melanins are Beautiful "Pigment Starburst", 24 in x 24 in, 6/24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f57b67de-d859-492d-a57a-24769607ce9c/Complexion+Patchwork+6-24.jpg Work - Melanins are Beautiful "Complexion Patchwork", 21 in x 34 in, 6/24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/7f836bc3-479b-43e1-a2bf-f2220bae3570/Incremental+Pigmentation+6-24.jpg Work - Melanins are Beautiful "Incremental Pigmentation", 21 in x 34 in, 6/24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/576f3561-72a6-4ac5-a38d-2818f1263d4b/Faceted+Complexions+7-24.jpg Work - Melanins are Beautiful "Faceted Complexions," 7/24, 13 in x 21 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/c791faec-9481-44a5-b3f6-af351857bc88/A+Wave+of+Pigment+7-24.jpg Work - Melanins are Beautiful "A Wave of Pigment", 14 in x 28 in, 7/24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9a073726-5662-442e-966f-487e9d4b1195/Woven+Pigment+Spotlight+8-24.jpg Work - Melanins are Beautiful "Woven Pigment Spotlight," 8/24, 22 in x 22 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/349381f6-5906-4324-8215-c4c45905268e/Fitzpatrick+deconstructed+8-24+-+smaller+still.png Work - Melanins are Beautiful "Fitzpatrick, Deconstructed," 8/24, 13 in x 21 in. each (x6 total) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/47e2ca67-4139-4669-94a2-cdb4409f0c59/Complexion+Rings+I+8-24.jpg Work - Melanins are Beautiful "Complexion Rings -I", 24 in x 24 in, 8/24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/72868f37-bc78-4534-9fc4-9736cf3857ce/Complexion+Rings+II+8-24.jpg Work - Melanins are Beautiful "Complexion Rings - II", 24 in x 24 in, 8/24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/a8c1d926-619d-4249-980e-6efdc2c47b8d/Neopolitan+Complexion+Circles+8-24.jpg Work - Melanins are Beautiful "Neopolitan Complexion Circles," 8/24, 14 in x 28 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/aed96c87-1932-440b-a5b8-0affd4820961/Humanity+Gradient+9-24.jpg Work - Melanins are Beautiful "Humanity Gradient," 9/24, 14 in x 28 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1676975305464-K6CV3B5L9RWS0VY0Q3FN/All%2Bare%2BWelcome%2BHere.jpg Work - Melanins are Beautiful "All are Welcome Here," 4/21, 14 in x 18 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/db658801-28f1-4c0b-b824-c0944ad5801c/All+Melanins+are+Beautiful.JPG Work - Melanins are Beautiful "All Melanins are Beautiful," 4/21, 10 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/3110f695-d618-4621-a70d-4f7a76e43e65/Geometric+Complexions+11-24.jpg Work - Melanins are Beautiful "Geometric Complexions," 11/24, 21 in x 34 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/35df8808-f016-4d01-a6b8-2fc8b2243f80/Melting+Pot+-+11-24.jpg Work - Melanins are Beautiful "Melting Pot," 11/24, 20 in x 38 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9e619306-dc22-4f48-922c-1c8ed1288b5b/Fitzpatric+Matrix+1-25.jpg Work - Melanins are Beautiful "Fitzpatrick Grid," 1/25, 12 in x 36 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/0184fb9b-50fb-40df-8613-3c5ef812b110/Melanin+Shield+1-25.jpg Work - Melanins are Beautiful "Melanin Shield", 22 in diameter, 1-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/20a3225d-4968-43fb-9aec-c857e0b2537a/Melanin+Motion+1-25.jpg Work - Melanins are Beautiful "Melanin Motion," 1/25, 24 in x 24 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/82f6327a-f1b0-4fbf-94e6-6c876c0c52b5/Time+for+Melanin+7-24.jpg Work - Melanins are Beautiful "Time for Melanin," 7/24, 13 in x 21 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/361e0fb5-8b61-4e04-9471-307b6f5b7491/Melanin+Symmetry+8-24.jpg Work - Melanins are Beautiful "Melanin Symmetry," 8/24, 22 in x 22 in. https://jadartstudio.com/work/cool-tones monthly 0.5 2023-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/45b437d4-037b-43c3-91df-3b4e30c6c279/Aqua+Circles+2-26.jpeg Work - Cool Tones "Aqua Circles", 2/26, 22 in x 22 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/7acad6be-da18-405c-b6d9-85d97b86f370/Ocean+Flower+10-25.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Ocean Flower", 11/25, 22 in x 22 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/73fc03f2-ae97-487d-9ced-c6085fae6f20/Global+8-25.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Global", 8/25, 22 in x 28 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/d2fe1900-bfab-481a-ae67-76b5db2aab32/Wedgewood+9-25.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Wedgewood", 9/25, 13 in x 21 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/48da3ddf-88e5-4102-9fd9-babc5e9cf005/Ocean+deconstructed+rejuvenated+4-25.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Ocean Deconstructed", 8/23 22 in x 28 in, rejuvenated 4-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/8d045ac0-53c9-4b97-a7bf-68276201da9c/F+Stop+4-25.jpg Work - Cool Tones "F Stop", 4/25 15 in x 18 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/eb0003ae-6778-4921-9e36-331881970705/Hubble+3-25.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Hubble", 3/25 24 in x 24 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/5078b8a6-75d3-4506-a4c1-e7697a85617e/Emerald+Matrix+3-25.jpg Work - Cool Tones "One Fine Day," 3/2025, 13 in x 21 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/6beb1725-d595-416b-b546-1c520d715df0/Snowflake+Fantasy+10-25.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Snowflake Fantasy", 10/25, 13 in x 21 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/c8c9eb9f-712c-4282-8377-72023a32a492/Pebbles+in+a+Stream+-+rejuvenated+1-25.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Pebbles in a Stream" 1/25, 18 in x 26 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f5e41bfe-8081-400b-b197-9b125140f9c5/Shattered+Ice+1-25.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Shattered Ice," 1/2025, 13 in x 21 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/6aba89ce-4cd1-4275-9d8a-79b3cce6760b/Aqua+Blossom+9-24.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Aqua Blossom," 9/24, 24 in x 24 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/3ded4fff-cef5-4a38-90d6-905128b589e5/Blue+Nova+7-24.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Blue Nova," 7/2024, 18 in x 29 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/46f9305c-319b-4859-96b6-6b10cc29bdb6/Cool+Change+3-24.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Cool Change," 3/2024, 22 in x 22 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9858540f-9239-4386-9536-189975e01174/Gaia+1-23.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Gaia" 1/2023, 22 in x 28 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/96c204bb-44de-4bfe-bccd-778d8a88b3b0/Eye+See+the+Sea+7-23.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Eye See the Sea" 22 in x 28 in, 7/23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/d35fd5e9-7fd3-4ba6-b2a3-342b0e69fac6/Radar+11-23.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Radar", 11/23 22 in x 22 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/dbb6fc78-a2f4-4879-925c-c102d0449e2e/Flow+2-24.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Flow," 2/2024, 18 in x 29 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/806c9874-f2fa-4f3a-a26b-8fe72eb1bee2/Emerald+City+9-24.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Emerald City," 9/24, 24 in x 24 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1676973583898-51976WOVVNVK2PI819O3/Grecian%252BViolet.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Grecian Violet," 11/2022, 22 in x 22 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/ee68b960-ffd8-45a9-a4c1-f58e0a039d39/Marty+Blues.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Marty Blues," 12/2022, 22 in x 22 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/c3d81fbe-9ad7-4f33-88ab-05dd97f54d19/Purple+Tetrad+for+Julia+.JPG Work - Cool Tones "Purple Tetrad for Julia," 7/2022, 13 in x 21 in (each; 4 pieces). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9129f42c-3cf4-44d0-88d4-04615c3c567d/Shattered.JPG Work - Cool Tones "Shattered," 5/2022, 20 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/bab69430-19bf-40fc-ab98-df8a4d530928/Skyline.JPG Work - Cool Tones "Skyline," 9/2022, 13 in x 21 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1676973915375-I1Z8LMTTGWT858KZB5YN/Thinking%2Bof%2BMalechite.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Thinking of Malachite," 3/2021, 20 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/5de2de3f-7817-4f7b-8d5f-ceb6cde782f5/Virion.png Work - Cool Tones "Virion," 8/2022, 13 in x 21 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/6d164b10-3a51-43f0-accc-040bfa4e862f/A+Purple+Web+for+Julia+.jpg Work - Cool Tones "A Purple Web for Julia," 3/2020, 30 in x 30 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/13eba757-7294-4be6-9bf0-97c010a57f24/Aqua+Crash.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Aqua Crash," 6/2020, 20 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/7bfd04e6-fafd-4372-b23d-91ee44db39c2/Blue+Stripes.JPG Work - Cool Tones "Blue stripes," 6/2020, 16 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/be6648e3-f3ae-4278-b316-10b62b1a78ba/Blue+Tetris+Grid.JPG Work - Cool Tones "Blue Tetris Grid," 7/2021, 20 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1676973480108-53U8A5U5RIKDPRVJ5C8E/Blues%2Bfor%2BJenny.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Blues for Jenny," 5/2020, 18 in x 18 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/e1ba6073-b774-4628-b5ce-88deb8d6652e/I%27ve+Got+the+Blues.JPG Work - Cool Tones "I Got the Blues (Thinking of Alex)," 3/2022, 13 in x 21 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1676973822989-O7ARC9EMYKHDZ26TILXL/Matrix.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Matrix," 4/2020, 18 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/3a6f4b83-88f1-40cd-b173-3b634c839491/D%27Orazio+-+Green+Fibonacci.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Green Fibonacci," 7/2020, 18 in x 30 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/eb795995-12b7-4048-8728-2cab1dc41488/Primavera+-+with+insets+10-24.jpg Work - Cool Tones "Primavera," 3/2020, 16 in x 20 in. https://jadartstudio.com/work/dance-blue-donations monthly 0.5 2023-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1063a917-f6e2-4d2e-a83c-dc884d6cee22/Go+Big+Blue+11-25.jpg Work - Pediatric Oncology Donations "Go Big Blue" 11/25, 24 in x 24 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1676975477838-EZMMH5LX19I7EZ444IEY/Dance%2BBlue%2BCollaboration%2B.jpg Work - Pediatric Oncology Donations "DanceBlue Collaboration," 1/20, 24 in x 36 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1676975533560-WXN20LRR3NFX6IYDCNBH/Dance%2BBlue%2BExplosion%2Bin%2B41%2BColors.jpg Work - Pediatric Oncology Donations "DanceBlue Explosion," 10/22, 13 in x 21 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1676975599673-DONBOOS2S6JWRHJWCKOA/Dance%2BBlue%2BRibbon.jpg Work - Pediatric Oncology Donations "DanceBlue Ribbon," 10/22, 13 in x 21 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1676975662209-TY8AMXLNA854JRS541FE/DanceBlue%2BDaisy%2B1-23.jpg Work - Pediatric Oncology Donations "DanceBlue Daisy," 1/23, 22 in x 22 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/4af11a0f-1bc6-497e-b1b3-8f82b3720ed1/LLS+Deconstructed+3-23.jpg Work - Pediatric Oncology Donations "LLS Deconstructed," 3/23, 20 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/51955a7b-aa3c-48f2-bb25-7fdeaac1f981/Geodesic+DanceBlue+6-23.jpg Work - Pediatric Oncology Donations "Geodesic DanceBlue " 6/23, 24 in x 31 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/d52d43e2-4b23-4ec9-8d78-4d6f085bc85e/DanceBlue+Swirl+7-23.jpg Work - Pediatric Oncology Donations "DanceBlue Swirl" 07/23, 22 in x 22 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/8d485996-7d4c-45dc-8243-612a69dc70c3/Blue+Morpho+3-24.jpg Work - Pediatric Oncology Donations "Blue Morpho," 3/2024, 22 in x 22 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/776806ba-e1ba-4c41-b125-9cfd5f690490/DanceBlue+Kaleidoscope+11-24.jpg Work - Pediatric Oncology Donations "DanceBlue Kaleidoscope," 11/24, 22 inch diameter circle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/13b672a8-5f88-4799-8677-786d517e4bd1/A+Walk+in+the+Woods+-+rejuvenated+-+6-25.jpg Work - Pediatric Oncology Donations "DanceBlue Collaboration," 6/21, 14 in x 18in. https://jadartstudio.com/work/warm-tones monthly 0.5 2025-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1500b991-1c83-44b1-a033-86d9c4c75e1c/Owl+Eyes+3-26.jpeg Work - Warm Tones "Owl Eyes," 3/2026, 13 in x 21 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/c23cb001-4bea-4779-8247-d38c1d625ffe/Auric+12-25.jpeg Work - Warm Tones "Auric," 12/2025, 13 in x 21 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/524b026a-343e-4757-bb85-570ed057aaa8/Sunfire+Flower.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Sunfire Flower," 10/2025, 22 in x 22 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/b573af2f-81c3-4dd5-ac89-48c816ece4ee/Eternal+Flame+10-25.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Eternal Flame," 9/2025, 24 in x 24 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/0cc4f8a6-f216-48aa-8101-b42f20c8eedb/Heraldry+9-25.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Heraldry," 9/2025, 24 in x 24 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/b00fbbba-cac1-4a4d-82df-d20cb8750759/Orange+Crush+8-25.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Orange Crush," 8/2025, 18 in x 29 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/11760930-74c4-4058-832c-73f8a8cc1c20/Cherry+Bomb+7-25.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Cherry Bomb," 7/2025, 13 in x 21 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/28df104e-87cb-4018-838f-ece46dfa0365/Swirl.JPG Work - Warm Tones "Swirl," 4/2022, 20 in x 20 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/364aa774-540d-4da1-ac8e-9c3d99d3496d/Warm+Glow+3-25.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Sun Shield," 3/2025, 24 in circle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/366be0b0-dc64-4328-897c-11b0a3623daa/The+Rising+Sun.JPG Work - Warm Tones "The Rising Sun," 9/2022, 20 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/097e3289-a392-472c-a55f-ae94adccf7a8/Sunset+Deconstructed+2-23.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Sunset Deconstructed," 2/2023, 18 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/271acec1-01c5-42f7-8924-f623e48f062b/Aztec+Sun+4-23.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Aztec Sun," 4/2023, 22 in x 22 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9e82156d-8df8-4afc-a95c-2aa531240580/Autumn+Flow+11-23.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Autumn Flow" 11/23, 18 in x 29 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/2f823fc7-1e52-466b-a0d2-f61154667659/Feel+the+Burn+7-23+revamped+with+insets.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Feel the Burn" 22 in x 22 in, 07/23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/0183a559-8abe-489c-a930-47e7122ea394/Celtic+Flame+2-24.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Celtic Flame" 22 in x 22 in, 02/24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/7c1d4276-2259-44ac-8ea7-7bc10fd5cc9e/Chronograph+2-24.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Chronograph," 2/2024, 13 in x 21 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/ad96e458-d7ac-4c68-9221-8a9fc84132f5/Black+Hole+Sun+5-22.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Black Hole Sun," 5/2021, 20 in x 20 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/4e829732-2620-4b64-8d56-8f328723824b/Eggshell+Explosion+-+photo+from+7-24.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Eggshell Explosion," 4/2020, 18 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9551b16e-93de-4e47-af1e-885548a917a2/Depth+Perception+-+photo+from+7-24.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Depth Perception," 2/2021, 20 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/fe556177-62e3-4e6f-a202-cc67e7fcbb4a/Patchwork+Giraffe+-+photo+from+7-24.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Patchwork Giraffe," 5/2020, 20 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/6e7fe2f8-e1a0-48f2-a522-69a1f09445b6/Caliente.JPG Work - Warm Tones "Caliente," 3/2022, 18 in x 18 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1344f515-5df9-4257-ac1b-f88c9b48a255/COVID-19.JPG Work - Warm Tones "COVID 19," 3/2020, 18 in x 36 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/52c3550d-843b-483b-a661-9dc7a57248ce/Cross+Fire.JPG Work - Warm Tones "Cross Fire," 2/2022, 20 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1676985590788-NZQBU1JA9A8IXBCEWA6H/Fall%2BTransparency%2B.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Fall Transparency," 6/2020, 8 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/a39ee8ad-2465-4162-9689-b0833929c6b7/Fantasy+in+Copper.JPG Work - Warm Tones "Fantasy in Copper," 4/2021, 18 in x 18 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/5ca09718-31cb-4418-8458-2670474b2044/Flash.JPG Work - Warm Tones "Flash," 9/2022, 13 in x 21 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9e9a3725-3570-48d5-a7ba-16cc754e1827/Helios.JPG Work - Warm Tones "Helios," 5/2021, 20 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/04760553-2342-441c-89ca-3a06453e7398/Ring+of+Fire.JPG Work - Warm Tones "Ring of Fire," 10/2021, 18 in x 18 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/fabae9a9-1b21-4949-94a6-390f7d4e0a46/Sun+Flower+12-24.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Sun Flower," 12/2024, 24 in x 24 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/832181dd-346e-4ee7-a334-b36ed2ee0c49/Flames+10-24.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Flames," 10/2024, 22 in x 28 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/34010a49-f335-4cd6-ad5d-9bde5335a6e8/Fall+Kaleidoscope+11-24.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Fall Kaleidoscope," 11/2024, 24 in x 24 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/c64d307e-7f1c-4c59-a66c-d5b51d5d6bdd/Crusade+11-24.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Crusade," 11/2024, 22 in x 22 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/7862cc7a-f9e4-4432-b35f-2a46149c63ca/Fire+in+the+Hole+12-24.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Fire in the Hole," 11/2024, 22 in x 22 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/10908b83-fcb2-41e6-b861-1c272304defd/Valentino+2-23+-2.jpg Work - Warm Tones "Valentino," 02/2023, 22 in x 22 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f546f9ed-1315-4266-baad-cd0feb6c3831/Autumn+Leaves.JPG Work - Warm Tones "Autumn Leaves," 8/2020, 8 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/a463f78d-b3d3-45d5-8d28-1a40634bbf88/Transparent+Triangles.JPG Work - Warm Tones "Transparent Triangles," 6/2020, 8 in x 24 in. https://jadartstudio.com/work/neutral-tones monthly 0.5 2023-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/357b7da4-314d-4727-8c4f-420e82020bc0/Achromatic+Hexaptych+-+3-26.png Work - Neutral Tones "Achromatic Hexaptych," 3/2026, 6 in x 36 in each (x6) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/3f2a7e76-a145-4a57-b957-68a0b8faf2f4/Fractured+Geode+3-2026.jpeg Work - Neutral Tones "Fractured Geode," 3/2026, 24 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f5fb5429-9b95-48bf-8a2f-0209e02cca55/From+Chaos%2C+Order+02-2026.jpeg Work - Neutral Tones "From Chaos,Order," 2/2026, 24 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/7718490a-ac1b-4255-8b53-24a902f010a6/Sawtooth+1-26.jpeg Work - Neutral Tones "Sawtooth," 1/2026, 24 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/254bae36-a274-4f05-bc50-fd50e51e7ad4/Controlled+Chaos+12-25.jpeg Work - Neutral Tones "Controlled Chaos," 12/2025, 13 in x 21 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1d634828-c25f-4377-83df-ccd0abbd3a12/Achromatic+Compass+11-25.jpg Work - Neutral Tones "Achromatic Compass," 11/2025, 24 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9b3c6a54-b98d-4ec0-83df-5f824ef530f2/Achromatic+Criss+Cross+-+9-25.jpg Work - Neutral Tones "Achromatic Criss Cross," 9/2025, 24 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/cfd994ed-2830-4bc7-bd90-b9340b6cc0b0/Achromatic+Rose+5-25.jpg Work - Neutral Tones "Achromatic Rose," 5/2025, 24 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/3995cf60-b95e-4c58-a3ac-61c1a9566c8a/Pins+and+Needles+4-25.jpg Work - Neutral Tones "Pins and Needles," 4/2025, 22 in diameter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/d3300606-a0ce-445d-babc-54d1222cc596/Equilibrium+Neutral.jpg Work - Neutral Tones "Equiiibrium Neutral," 4/2025, 22 in x 28 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/7d2c4945-03ff-47a9-92ae-41287a8aae30/Neutral+Matrix+4-25.jpg Work - Neutral Tones "Othello," 4/2025, 24 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/4f8e6345-72ec-48d1-b133-36631ed265b6/In+Motion+12-24.jpg Work - Neutral Tones "In Motion," 12/2024, 22 in diameter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/10911c48-bf74-4c0c-84e5-9ed56ff2a46d/Shades+of+Grey+.JPG Work - Neutral Tones "Shades of Grey," 9/2021, 20 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/accb1ee1-9b02-4830-a511-8ba7a26eb1b5/Cytokinesis+rejuvinated+3-2026.jpeg Work - Neutral Tones "Cytokinesis," 8/2022 and rejuvenated 3/202613 in x 21 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/bd8571bf-1f42-45db-afab-41972e8c5bbc/Geodes.JPG Work - Neutral Tones "Geode," 10/2020, 24 in x 36 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/796b7377-1398-4cb2-b47f-7b16f7032b28/Yellow+Giraffe+%28For+Scott%29.jpg Work - Neutral Tones "Yellow Giraffe," 10/2020, 20 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f55dfb39-c7df-49aa-985c-c13bd527bbb1/Oculus+-+redone+10-24.jpg Work - Neutral Tones "Oculus," 12/2022, 22 in x 22 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/594799a6-b39b-48ca-b634-0a420066d0fc/Homage+to+University+Flats+7-23.jpg Work - Neutral Tones "Homage to University Flats", 22 in x 28 in, 7-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/aee78c00-9982-4096-b45d-638a27705335/Taupiary+1-24.jpg Work - Neutral Tones "Taupiary," 1/2024, 21 in x 34 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f0954640-0d54-4f03-ac3a-e9c9bdc2a672/La+Famiglia+3-24.jpg Work - Neutral Tones "La Famiglia," 3/2024, 13 in x 21 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/2f77d7ac-6e79-4750-a37b-5dadd9fd717e/A+Throw+of+Stones+-+revised+-+4-25-24.jpg Work - Neutral Tones "A Throw of Stones," 8/2021, 24 in x 36 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1676974102767-MN9EKFDB4WXV35GP0LRX/An%2BExploration%2Bof%2BBark%2B.jpg Work - Neutral Tones "An Exploration of Bark," 7/2020, 12 in x 12 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1676974315266-S8BCSGENMXHXFAMF0H5D/Desert%2BSands.jpg Work - Neutral Tones "Desert Sands," 5/2020, 8 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/87b8db91-283e-4d2c-aa31-f48cb820f1c2/Grown.JPG Work - Neutral Tones "Grown," 1/2022, 13 in x 21 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/dc277a33-b2a4-4c50-aab7-5c3173b6dbf1/Rainbow+Sienna.jpg Work - Neutral Tones "Sienna Rainbow," 3/2020, 18 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f9152264-df1e-4afb-a2ee-887f28bdbb53/Gather+Together+10-24.jpg Work - Neutral Tones "Gather Together," 10/2024, 24 in x 30 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/92bdb15b-4050-4535-a944-e595699fa14b/Shield.JPG Work - Neutral Tones "The Shield," 9/2022, 20 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/e7f1e932-b5b5-4206-9335-b25975cacf8a/Tribal+.JPG Work - Neutral Tones "Tribal," 7/2020, 18 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/fd7170c0-ae2c-44f9-9a23-a707de0a9b91/Trying+Out+Triangles.JPG Work - Neutral Tones "Trying out Triangles," 3/2020, 16 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1f382967-732f-4b82-afdc-5dcc4d77abc9/Piano+Forte+10-24.jpg Work - Neutral Tones "Piano Forte," 10/2024, 36 in x 48 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/1676974494385-BF42MA5OMHQ32VMH3QLD/Cobblestones%2B12-22.jpg Work - Neutral Tones "Cobblestones," 12/2022, 22 in x 22 in. https://jadartstudio.com/work/multi-colored monthly 0.5 2023-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/72068ea8-040b-4f96-8718-193009680f07/Springtime+Lattice+1-26.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Springtime Lattice," 1/20256, 24 in x 24 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/326cbcd5-77e9-43c0-9e8a-fc41e6cb73a9/Jungle+Geometry+11-25.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Jungle Geometry," 11/2025, 18 in x 29 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/0fb4566b-2c10-48e5-a0cd-edf84f8ad84b/Geometric+Triptych+in+Blues+and+Browns+9-25.png Work - Multi-Colored "Geometric Triptych in Blues and Browns," 9/2025, 13 in x 21 in each https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/8e840b3a-e9da-4006-8c23-9e1826a6ffa5/Forest+Bathing+8-25.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Forest Bathing," 8/2025, 13 in x 21 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/697462c9-4799-4fcd-8d23-018905f84d24/Composition+8-25.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Composition," 8/2025, 24 in x 24 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/69a31d6c-a8be-46a5-9eb6-55a6fbbba61f/Deco+Blues+and+Browns+7-25.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Deco Blues and Browns," 7/2025, 13 in x 21 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/25f6727b-b8e4-43af-91c3-7efd862282fc/Denim+Daisy+7-25.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Denim Daisy," 7/2025, 22 in x 22 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/ad6ea986-87cd-45fd-a111-940986c81d03/Pink+Couch+6-25.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Pink Couch" 6/25, 22 in x 28 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/435a4189-8c3e-44f5-b979-94e0c7b19d54/Four+Directions+2-25.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Four Directions" 3/25, 22 in x 22 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f4bef546-3882-446e-8648-532e7c663c7b/Earthscape+Horizon+4-15-24.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Earthscape Horizon" 4/24, 18 in x 29 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/35023896-03d1-4f68-bcc2-24d00d700740/Now+I+know+my+ABCs+-+8-25.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Now I Know My ABC's," 8/2025, 13 in x 21 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/0b7d20bb-60e3-42c5-a8d7-6bf400bf85f7/All+Charged+Up+.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "All Charged Up," 10/2022, 36 in x 36 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/03c2e2e4-fad1-406b-babf-fe62f6992270/On+On+U+of+K+11-24.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "On, On, U of K," 10/24, 22 in x 22 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/5d74d373-a2be-4e1d-8bfc-b277966ad3c8/Harlequin+10-24.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Harlequin," 10/24, 24 in x 24 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/edf6e4fd-badf-4205-bbac-03bf26bf3ebe/Frenetic.JPG Work - Multi-Colored "Frenetic," 1/2021, 16 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/09ae287b-c90f-4737-b85d-0dbe622deeef/Cosmic+Web+12-24.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Cosmic Web," 10/24, 24 in x 24 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/e6235386-9587-48b8-aeea-7f7ccb521c43/Kaleidoscope+2.0.JPG Work - Multi-Colored "Kaleidoscope," 2/2022, 20 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/218a5dfb-f07b-414b-886e-5e0eb405a607/Kaleidoscope.JPG Work - Multi-Colored "Kaleidoscope 2.0," 8/2022, 20 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/d23b982c-5c01-4ea6-9951-dd8ec4814f8a/Possibility+.JPG Work - Multi-Colored "Possibility," 6/20, 18 in x 26 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/c469bbe8-33d3-4411-823c-748027ffa105/A+Throw+of+Colors+-+8-23.jpg Work - Multi-Colored Confetti, 8/23, 20 in x 20 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/c06a0cd0-657d-4748-8b80-84b204c5c20a/Micromanaged+5-23.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Micromanaged" 6/2023, 24 in x 31 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/8ad25678-97be-4f66-8f21-dd55bad30c36/Woven+Spotlight+.JPG Work - Multi-Colored "Woven Spotlight," 4/2020, 20 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/00df9628-1f71-4690-b6a6-b596f44a80f0/X+Marks+the+Spot.JPG Work - Multi-Colored "X Marks the Spot," 5/2022, 13 in x 21 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/863e9642-155b-4258-bf57-c89d44f0e804/Geodes+in+Stone.JPG Work - Multi-Colored "Geodes in Stone," 9/2022, 13 in x 21 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/a799758e-6ba5-46f3-9177-a5dd057da81b/Blue+and+brown+make+sage+-1+1-23.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Blue and Brown Make Sage," 1/2023, 20 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/d29393c8-6671-4298-88a0-01f996592ac2/Nature+Boy+2-23.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Nature Boy," 2/2023, 20 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/68563579-76ad-4eb4-ab36-59ec8224f314/Orange+Askew.JPG Work - Multi-Colored "Orange Askew" 5/2021, 14 in x 18 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/e66c2e8b-28a6-4076-a6ee-67e645e4e635/Navigating+home+3-23.jpg Work - Multi-Colored Navigating Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/e4497d3e-b8f9-4ed6-b1c1-599bc9520068/And+They%27re+Off...+3-23.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "And They're Off..." 3/2023, 13 in x 21 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9de1a680-6f0c-490c-8670-2c26cadd9590/Rhapsody+in+Blues+and+Browns+-+3-23.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Rhapsody in Blues and Browns", 3/2023, 21 in x 34 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/28ce6bf5-8dc8-4690-94a4-3499b1591028/Teamwork+.JPG Work - Multi-Colored "Teamwork," 9/2021, 12 in x 12 in (each; 2 pieces). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/ff4c975b-5b54-4882-8a50-3afd5e9f9fab/Boston+Redux+5-23.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Boston Redux," 5/2023, 22 in x 22 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/a5716f5f-aef1-4091-a484-a0a4dc48892f/Bluegrass+Landscape+1-24.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Bluegrass Landscape" 1/2024, 22 in x 28 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/84b3d54a-a3e9-41dd-87bc-0f52fb14e75a/Spicy+2-24.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Spicy," 2/2024, 12 in x 12 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/344af22b-49a1-411f-a487-f83960ea820e/Alhambra+6-22.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Alhambra," 6/2022, 20 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f5b3b950-9ad6-4917-b5ed-e6bc3db1e7de/Rolling+Hills+of+Kentucky+-+2-22.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "The Rolling Hills of Kentucky," 2/2022, 20 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/422006fe-e96a-447b-8c2b-c4331f9f6027/Earthscape+Triangles+-+4-15-24.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Earthscape Triangles" 4/24, 18 in x 29 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/f35f1dff-f6cd-46d7-9f99-c233be799eba/Asteroids+5-24.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Asteroids", 5/24, 18 in x 29 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/36217d4a-5529-488e-a0e7-92e9aaf28575/Monarch+7-24.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Monarch," 7/24, 24 in x 24 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9c4c5965-acb2-4efa-be93-23d7c49de554/Lily+P+9-24.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Lily P," 9/2024, 13 in x 21 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/42266c3e-8242-41d5-845a-aee10dc4c586/D%27Orazio+-+Primary+Grid.jpg Work - Multi-Colored "Primary Grid," 3/2021, 18 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/86bf9422-c12b-4fbf-9afe-31b21350c828/Here%27s+Looking+at+You+.JPG Work - Multi-Colored "Here's Looking at You," 10/2020, 10 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/e215dc80-5a60-443c-8cb7-077374462557/Ode+to+Sadiemae.JPG Work - Multi-Colored "Ode to Sadiemae," 3/2020, 20 in x 24 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/c8cc2cf0-041c-440b-aba3-51a772de9062/Interference+Purple.JPG Work - Multi-Colored "Interference Purple," 3/2020, 16 in x 20 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/9d43dc38-cb09-49e9-8573-78c36975e827/Pink+Eye.JPG Work - Multi-Colored "Pink Eye," 6/2020, 18 in x 24 in. https://jadartstudio.com/work/flags monthly 0.5 2025-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/eb84b749-7efa-4f5c-894d-4ca28fe4eb73/Hvala+Ti+-+3-25.jpg Work - Flags "Hvala Ti", 13 in x 21 in, 3/2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/2eef0be9-240f-4566-a143-46b3b0dded3f/Melting+Pot+-+11-24.jpg Work - Flags "Melting Pot", 20 in x 38 in, 11/2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/30aa5cb4-5bbb-456a-b6ff-c68bb69a8c8c/Liberty%2C+Justice%2C+and+Fraternity+2-24.jpg Work - Flags "Liberty, Justice, and Fraternity", 13 in x 21 in, 2/2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/c7e4c63d-37b1-46d7-bf30-b0684c3a953a/Il+Tricolore+2-24.jpg Work - Flags "Il Tricolore", 13 in x 21 in, 2/2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/554b9331-f688-46ce-888a-f4c00a77fc77/US+Flag+-+Distressed+-+7-25.jpg Work - Flags "American Flag: Distressed", 20 in x 38 in, 6/2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/637915521134762c736074d3/28153f2b-c931-4d44-acd8-97ab3a520310/US+Flag+-+Basketweave+-+7-25.jpg Work - Flags "American Flag: Basketweave", 20 in x 38 in, 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