A little something I did during a few boring hours. This piece shows water starting to come to a boil.
Jessica A. Nunno
This is a Shubunkin Goldfish and her name is Yugameru, Yuga for short. A rare goldfish that actually likes to be hand fed and petted, she can be found in the aquarium of Dine Migliaccio of Squishy Products: http://www.facebook.com/SquishyProducts Dina asked me to draw a portrait of her so that she could frame it :)
Jessica A. Nunno
It took me well over 6 months to find what I needed to help me correctly draw an octopus. I searched for around a month trying to find some sort of toy, book, image, stuffed animal... of an octopus that I could pose to help me get the angles right and get the suction cups on the octopus's tentacles right. Those suction cups never came out right every time I tried drawing them, which is why I wanted to physical reference so I could get a good idea of what they looked like close up. Well right before we moved from CT to AL I actually found a toy octopus. Of course, when I wasn't actually looking for one. And, after some practice in my sketch book I transferred the image and actually drew the allusive creature! I added a small clown fish in the background to add some more interest to the picture, to make it seem more dynamic. What do you think?
And, of course this piece is available as a print if your interested. Click on the link!
Jessica A. Nunno
For a Limited Time “A Rose” is available printed on Stretched Canvas! There’s only 10 in stock and the prints are only available for 5 days! At $60.00 the sale ends on March 16th! Get one now, Mother’s Day is around the corner and all Mom’s like Roses! This one will last forever!
Jessica A. Nunno
My Deviant Art Group, is getting off to a decent start. I've got 17 members. Which isn't a lot, but it's something after 2 1/2 months of being in existence. I'm figuring out how everything works and the best ways to submit artists work and get artists interested in the group. I don't want to run any contests yet, not until I have at least 50 members, if not more. I think I'd prefer 100 members so at least I'd have a good percentage of people who'd be willing to participate.
The group itself is a dedication to anything that causes some sort of harm, whether is mental distress, nature related disaster, human made machines gone awry.... human destruction, spacial cataclysms... and of course aliens! A lot more people make art about these things than we realize, and this group is a place to see it all come together. I always wanted to find a way to help promote artists and feature work. So if I can get things group up and running I think it could be a big hit!
The group itself is a dedication to anything that causes some sort of harm, whether is mental distress, nature related disaster, human made machines gone awry.... human destruction, spacial cataclysms... and of course aliens! A lot more people make art about these things than we realize, and this group is a place to see it all come together. I always wanted to find a way to help promote artists and feature work. So if I can get things group up and running I think it could be a big hit!
Jessica A. Nunno
This image was drawn for my friend Kimberly Kuba, another artist. Her work can be checked out at this page here: http://madameksquare.deviantart.com/ she did a series of images based on bubbles, and bubbles actually having an environment. I started talking to her when I was critiquing those pieces. Since that time we became friends. I decided to draw her an image of bubbles, but with my own spin on it and with the mediums I normally draw in. This was the turn out. The idea behind the image is that the colored bubbles are being forced from a volcanic fissure in the ocean... and their bright colors are a chemical reaction between the magma and the salt water.
Jessica A. Nunno
A Whale Shark. This creature is very odd, it's technically a shark... but it acts more like a whale and eats like a whale. It's my fiance's favorites sea animal and he requested it drawn for him for his birthday. This piece was the final result!
Jessica A. Nunno
It's been quite a long time since I updated my blogger account, but finally today I took the time to do it. And, I vow to update it regularly from now on!
In other news not only is my blog up to date.... but I now have an official website to display my art work and advertise myself! Yay! I ended up using a website builder through Wix.com. Eventually I will be buying my own domain name so the website wont have wix.com attached to it and it will become www.JessicaNunno.com. The next step after that will be to get new business cards and buy advertising time as well as plan to do a convention by the summer. It will take time and planning but I am determined to get things even more moving this year and have my first sale on a print and a real commission.
In other news not only is my blog up to date.... but I now have an official website to display my art work and advertise myself! Yay! I ended up using a website builder through Wix.com. Eventually I will be buying my own domain name so the website wont have wix.com attached to it and it will become www.JessicaNunno.com. The next step after that will be to get new business cards and buy advertising time as well as plan to do a convention by the summer. It will take time and planning but I am determined to get things even more moving this year and have my first sale on a print and a real commission.
Jessica A. Nunno
For 5 months I worked on this piece off and on. This piece is literally the most complicated pointillism piece I have ever done. Its original size is 6x12 inches on Stonehenge Paper. And it is very much a mixed media piece even though I consider it to be a pointillism piece. Every part from the sky to the tree's to the figure (which my fiance modeled for) I stippled. But, to add more depth to the sky I used the toothbrush effect with an acrylic ink and added stars then washed in the glare on the windshield. Then to add more depth to the trees I added a transparent layer of gray using Copic Sketch Markers in gray. And, finally for both the 3 Comets in the back I used Acrylic Paint. So after many months of torture and experimentation to get each part right this piece got finished.
The idea behind "Oblivion" (what I call the piece for short, since it was been with me for half a year) is a man who climbed on the top of his car to watch the heavens above in their beautiful splendor "rain" destruction down upon the earth. This piece is my dedication to the Album 30 Seconds to Mars by 30 Seconds to Mars.
The idea behind "Oblivion" (what I call the piece for short, since it was been with me for half a year) is a man who climbed on the top of his car to watch the heavens above in their beautiful splendor "rain" destruction down upon the earth. This piece is my dedication to the Album 30 Seconds to Mars by 30 Seconds to Mars.
Jessica A. Nunno
Three years ago I stippled a piece in black and white for my Grandmother for Christmas. I asked her what her most favorite thing in the whole world was and he answer was Baby's Feet. This year I asked her what she wanted me to draw her for Christmas and she answered she wanted Baby's Hands, to go with the Baby's feet. This is what I drew her.
Jessica A. Nunno
A christmas card I was commissioned to draw for newspaper carries on the Connecticut Post. Their paper route ran up in the back areas of Fairfield, CT. The sunday after the Thanksgiving of 2010: 325 of these were printed and added in with their sunday newspaper.
These piece shows a Reindeer holding a bow tied piece of mistletoe in his mouth. He wants a little kiss for the holidays >.<'
These piece shows a Reindeer holding a bow tied piece of mistletoe in his mouth. He wants a little kiss for the holidays >.<'
Jessica A. Nunno
In this pice I was practicing with mixing media and layering. The first layer is a solid layer of marker. Then the texture/ detail on the Goldfish, the water and the bubbles is done with my usual pointilist style. And, the highlights are done with a white colored pencil. The entire piece is only 2.5x3.5 inches in it's original size.
Jessica A. Nunno
Jessica A. Nunno
Two more pieces in my "Alien Jellyfish" series. Above, is a piece featuring a Moon Jellyfish. In this piece I took the artistic liberty and made the creature look much more alien like by cropping the body and elongating the tentacles.
In the piece below is a Nettle Jellyfish. The liberties I took in this piece to make it appear alien like, was not with the jellyfish specifically, but more with the water around it and the "glow" emitting from the jellyfish. Anatomically the Nettle jellyfish looks exactly like a Nettle Jellyfish, but it looks as if it is radioactive and that the water in moves through turns ionized and emits an energy from each of the bubbles.
In the piece below is a Nettle Jellyfish. The liberties I took in this piece to make it appear alien like, was not with the jellyfish specifically, but more with the water around it and the "glow" emitting from the jellyfish. Anatomically the Nettle jellyfish looks exactly like a Nettle Jellyfish, but it looks as if it is radioactive and that the water in moves through turns ionized and emits an energy from each of the bubbles.