If you would like to contact me it www.j9messart@gmx.com also check out more of my art on facebook.com/J9Messart Instagram @j9messart also you can order prints www.pixels.com/profiles/2-janine-messenger
This is a portfolio of art, and illustrations done by artist Janine Messenger
My name is Janine Messenger, I'm an aspiring artist, illustrator, designer. I currently live in Erwin, TN. I was born in Tampa, FL. I grew up in both Tampa, and Ashville, NC. I've been drawing sense I was young. I've taken my style from nature, and some of the old masters of art. I started drawing mostly realistic animal drawings, when I was 9 from a book with wildlife drawings in it. As I got older I started adding, more abstract, and surrealist designs to my drawings. I also developed a scratch board type technique, to oil pastels. Then eventually developed a highly detailed design technique using markers. I've also created work with polymer clay as well. I hope to become a fulltime illustrator of Children's Books, and Adult Coloring Books. Using my stylised techniques.
This is an oil pastel drawing, of a Grizzly Bear Catching an Salmon. I got this image from Google. I wanted to capture the bear in the action of catching a fish. I also wanted to show the action of the water in relation to the bear, and fish. It was done using oil pastel on black paper. I also used alittle colored pencil, with the scratch board technique.
Here's an Elk Drawing, created using oil pastels, and alittle colored pencil, for detailing, on black paper. I found a picture of an Elk in a book. I added my own colors in the sky. My own trees, and lighting on the trees as well was the grass. I wanted to make the sky alittle impressionistic. With combinations of pink, purple, blues, blended with white, and highlights of yellow, around the elk.
This is an oil pastel on basic white mixed media paper. I got the image from a nature book. But I added a more Smokey impressionistic color to the sky. If you notice the yellow of the tree branches. I started out with the yellow color, then layered it with darker colored pastels. Then I scraped off some of the dark, revealing yellow, and alittle dark around the edges of branch. Using a clay sculpting tool. I ended up selling 2 of these. I had to make a simular one for some else. After selling the original.
This is one of my older wildlife pieces of an otter. Sorry image is so bad, I don't have this piece anymore, and I took this pic on an old cell phone. I did this one with oil pastels on mixed media paper. I used a combination of oil pastels, colored pencil, and my scratch board technique to create the fur to make it look wet.
Now let's go into my pop culture, fan art, characters, and drawings inspired by things I was into as a child, and still am. This is my favorite out of them. This is a first in a series I've wanted to do with creators, with there creations. I guess I always dream of creating a legacy myself. This is Jim Henson surrounded by the Muppets. I started this one with colored pencil, sharpies and alittle oil pastel highlights. I hope in the future to create, Mister Rogers in the neighborhood of makebelieve. Stan Lee, and The Marvel Super Heroes. Another one of Disney, among others.
Here one I did of Walt Disney, with creation of Mickey Mouse. There's also a cameo of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit. I did it using mostly white, and gray oil pastels, on black paper. I scratched into the pastel layers,to create the black drawings. I wanted to make it look like a vintage black, and white cartoon.
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