Working on a slew of new paintings, right now. This one is coming along well, too… 

Trying to clean out the studio a bit to make room for new goodies, thus I decided to make a small selection of older works available at a fraction of my regular retail gallery prices. The remainder of my ‘Marilyn’ paintings need to find good homes, folks! Check out The Art of Jonathon Kimbrell online shop and find something you can’t live without.

It’s been a while since I’ve got to do any real painting for myself, or for any gallery’s sake, and I’ve sort of been feeling a little guilty for ignoring this part of it all. But, after a much-needed break, I have a new found eagerness to start working on some paintings again. 

I took two paintings on wood that were started late last year that either were not really to my liking, or just got messed up during the painting/screen printing process. Instead of wasting the frame, I took an orbital sander to the smaller piece to strip off the paint and ink. After a few minutes of sanding, I started to like what I saw, and decided to experiment with this ‘look’ a little bit more. I now have several paintings in various states of this look for some future finished work, which I must say is a total relief. As much as I like printmaking, painting is my first love, not to mention my bread and butter.

These new paintings will probably end up in my upcoming exhibition, “House on Fire” at Cherry Branch Gallery, opening October 6th.

So, in an attempt to better separate my many ventures in art and what-not, I’ve set up a separate web store for all of my fine art prints, original paintings and other art related goodies. I think this may help shine some focus on a few things for me, maybe get myself motivated to stock up the shelves, as it were. Click on the graphic to check out the new shop.

Thanks, ~Jonathon

The studio has been cooking up a lot of goodies over the last few weeks! After making several test prints and prototypes, checking color and print quality, I’m happy to finally offer some art prints worth shaking a stick at!

These new prints from my popular and successful “We Are Modern” series are created on 3mil black core aluminum with special, high tech UV cured inks. Sure beats those flimsy ‘giclee’ prints you buy from most art shops and dealers!

Limited to only 10 copies per image, these babies are sure to go quick, and are only available through Napkin Art Studios directly. Stay tuned as a few more aluminum prints will be available soon. Check out the first offerings here.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Almost forgot about this…a little insight into the “We Are Modern” exhibit from last April. Was interviewed by Dallas’ Art This Week about the series and the exhibit at The Cameron Gallery. Still pretty proud of this series. Can’t wait to get ad to it, as well as start work on the next exhibit. Watch the interview HERE.