Nick Janouris [Art]

I paint and draw and sometimes get up for potty breaks. Personal blog @denimdaddi

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Hi followers! Here's a 5"x7" Christmas gift for a friend, in gouache and watercolor. Fact: I painted this from a picture on my phone. Fact: this is on Saint Regis mountain, and my best friends Dave, Sarah, Shelly and Ben are all pictured!

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Quick posteroonie

I have another blog my dudes! It has a behind the scenes look at my taste in art (by which I mostly mean memes and vines, but some art too. It's cute). @personalitydisorder-character

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Saint Regis, Acrylic/Oil on panel 12"x18"

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Kameron, 2015 Photoshop CS6

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"Feathered" Oil on canvas, 18x24"

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Another piece from the trip to the Adirondacks. 5.5" x 8", watercolor. On the first night of camping, a thunderstorm drenched the area in rain. The next morning, all of our sleeping bags were soaked, and a puddle creeped through the tent. We stopped at a laundromat, and with a timer on the dryer and nothing to do, I opened up my sketchbook and started this. As a note on the minimalism: I knew I had a short amount of time, so my approach altered accordingly. Instead of blocking in large shapes of light and dark, I took about five minutes adding color to the subject matter. A testament to the lengthiness of planning out the first stage in pencil, this piece finished here, with much left on the page. I'm a firm believer in adaptability--if a study is meant for value, it will show. This study (hopefully) shows the body language and story of my two friends, flipping through a magazine as we waited.

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Been a while since I posted anything here. This is one of a few sketches I did in a recent trip to the Adirondacks. This painting is in gouache, 5.5" x 8". We camped at Buck Pond--this particular scene was down the hill from our campsite. There was a ghostly mist crawling across the mountains. Silence blanketed the pond, only permitting the occasional, somber call of a loon. I returned to this scene three times, but I was hard pressed to capture the muted serenity from that first morning.

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"Elicia" CS6 This demo was the second night of the show. The purpose was basically to show what digital painting was, so I linked my screen up to a TV and showed my process over a large room of attendants. Very fun. :)

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"LiiLii"  CS6 I did a demo at Zoll Studio School of Fine Art's annual exhibit last month! One of the models was kind enough to let me paint her for about two hours.

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Roland Ave Same old same old, 8"x10" in my sketchbook, pencil and marker (plus some photoshoppin')

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"Name for Something" scribbled in my 8"x11" sketchbook with a regular ole' pencil

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"Interlude," Mixed Media (Photoshop CS6 and Oil Paint)

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LiiLii, graphite on paper, 8"x11"

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Warm up sketching, no ref, CS6

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Adele, one sitting (3 hours) in CS6

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Photo studies of the day. Staying thematic to lead up to a bigger piece. 

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Another spitpaint (30 minutes). "Ice Dragon's Cave," CS6