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The writer's art gallery!

Top Photo: My watercolor painting of the same view that is shown in the photo on the home page (detail only). Not for sale.

Current Projects:

"Vincent's Off His Rocker"
Adirondack Rocking Chair
Acrylic polymer on painted wood. Double-varnished with exterior Spar Urethane.
Completed: July 2007
Disposition: Charity Project (Pro Bono)
Tiffin Art Guild's "Rock On" Project and Event. Members volunteered to procure rocking chairs and paint on them. The chairs will be exhibited (TBA). During Tiffin's Heritage festival in September, the chairs will be auctioned off. Proceeds will be split. Half goes to the Ritz Theater and half to the Guild treasury. My chair is painted in the manner of Vincent Van Gogh. The subject painting hangs in the Museum of Modern Art (NYC) and is titled, "Starry Night." It took me two weeks to paint. I do not paint chairs to sell.

On August 14, 2007 I agreed to be a member of the Board of Directors, Tiffin Art Guild.

How to purchase a painting:
Interested in owning an original Jon Adams? Email me at jd@jondude.com. We'll take it from there. The prices I list are complete. There is no discount if you want the painting without a frame, as most of my work is framed as soon as it is completed. Extra large works are never framed and usually are canvasses with two-inch stretchers that defy framing.

Shipping and delivery:
Purchases within 50 miles will be delivered in person. Paintings beyond 50 miles will be shipped via UPS or FedEx. Shipping costs vary with weight and distance. Paintings are packaged in custom-made cartons with corner padding and defensive material. Purchase price does not include shipping or insurance.

On my subjects and style:
I work in both glazes and scumbling. Glaze painting is accomplished by working from light to dark using thin and transparent color. You gradually build-up to the darker, more pronounced color. Scumbling is beginning with darker values and laying lighter colors over it, usually opaque layers... allowing some of the darker colors to remain. Scumbling also allows canvas texture to become part of the work.

Price range:
Buying in a commercial setting, from a gallery or a commercial exhibition, will usually result in higher prices for art. Art dealers take a very large percentage of the price, from 40 to 50 percent. Thus, the artist must ask for an inflated price for the work in order to make the sale worthwhile. Buying direct, as you would here, means no dealer commission, so you get the real price of the painting! If I had to sell "Phalaenopsis Composition One" through a commercial art gallery, it's price would be $850 instead of $425.

Look at it this way: Everything here is already "half price!" Email me at jd@jondude.com

Mail Pouch Barn, Ohio
30” x 24”
Acrylic polymer on canvas
Completed: December 24, 2006
Disposition: Gifted by artist to Paul Comer & Fran Flipse, Fostoria, OHI was commissioned by my uncle to paint from a photograph he took of an ancient farm barn in Ohio. I put off presenting the finished and framed painting to them until Christmas Eve and they were not put off at all by the holiday surprise! Click on the photo or the text link to see a larger view. (Not for sale)

UH-1D Huey
30" x 24"
Acrylic polymer on canvas
Completed: 1984
Disposition: $425.00 framed

Santorini Church in Pyrgos
24" x 18"
Acrylic polymer on canvas
Completed 2007
Disposition: $400.00 framed

Wind-Blown Cypress (17-Mile Drive)
16” x 12”
Acrylic polymer on canvas
Completed: 1982
Disposition: $450.00 framed