The Artwork Of Joshua Been » Figurative

Painting in Gloucester, MA

jbeen — Mon, 30 May 2011 15:18:01 +0000

Hello Everyone, Painting in Gloucester, MA (pronounced GLAHSTA, MASS) again for just 10 days. This will be an on-going post because I’ll be here for another week. A real treat to able to come out to the East Coast and paint. I hit it right with the weather, it’s been nice every day!! I feel [...]

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March 2011 Newsletter

jbeen — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:41:30 +0000

Fine Art Newsletter: March 2011 40×60 “Rocky Mountain High” Oil on Linen Hello, I hope this newsletter finds you well. Lots of news, be sure to scroll all the way down. LARGE PAINTINGS: This Winter I’ve spent some invaluable time in the studio exploring some possibilities in larger works. Through a cumulative visual vocabulary built [...]

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Coffeeshop Fun

jbeen — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:26:01 +0000

Or “Who’s that creepy guy over there taking pictures?” Omm, that would be me. Coffee shops are wonderful places to people watch and get some 21st century painting material. It’s amazing how coffee has become such an integral part of our modern existence, and how, in turn, people relate to these types of scenes. My [...]

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Submitted to the Oil Painters of America Show in Santa Fe, NM.

jbeen — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:47:54 +0000

I recently submitted a couple images in to the 18th annual Oil Painters of America show. The thing with this show is that only one of the paintings can even end up in it, and the chances of that happening, given the sheer amount of entries, is very unlikely. But I entered the following paintings anyway because it is [...]

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Painting old trucks is like painting the figure

jbeen — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:39:34 +0000

Old trucks, at least pre 50′s era, are the best subjects.You have to engage the shapes and their relationship to one another in a very high-draftsmanship state of mind or your painting, remarkably quickly, starts looking like something out of a Dr. Seuss book. Where you can have a lot of fun is in the color shifts and [...]

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Introspections

jbeen — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:11:06 +0000

A nude painting, because we humans think of ourselves as non-animals, is always an interesting endeavor both to look at or to paint. Because seeing someone in the nude anywhere but in private usually meansÂ something taboo has gone on or something has gone drastically wrong. I think of a nude as a window in to [...]

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Solitude

jbeen — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:53:16 +0000

I took the picture of this man on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, CO. It was 10 degrees out. I stared in awe of him from the warmth of my SUV. I thought to myself, “There are so many talented people in the world, I mean, just how many people play the trumpet well, [...]

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