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Jon Jacobs

Surface Art

These pictures pretty much speak for themselves. 
Almost anything can be done with metal leafing and paint.
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For: Joe Nye Inc
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A pair of caved wood cherubs that I brought to life with gesso and paint.
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I made these boxes from pressed moldings, finials and composition. Then finished them with paint and leaf.
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This is a new piece. I distressed it and gave it a very old looking paint job.
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For: Tom Beeton Inc.
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The same with this piece
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I built and painted a custom gate to keep the cat out of the Living room.
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It was a plain little wooden table that I leafed, painted and added glass top
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It was a doorway into a pantry. I built the bookcase unit to fill the space & painted the doors covering the T.V. with trompe l'oeil.
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This is a stenciled floor with a surprise inside the closet.
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I built this piece and decorated it with paint, glazes, metal leaf and wallpaper.
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I designed and painted this card.
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I didn't paint this picture, I just toned down the frame. Sometimes small things can make a big difference. For Tom Beeton inc.
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I did build the cabinetry, but what I want to show is the tile work.
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I cut each piece and smoothed the edges so 'baby's' bottom wouldn't get scratched.
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Something for over the doorway of a beautiful Wallace Neff living room.
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A tile mirror.
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A pencil study.
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The room as it was.
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I textured the fireplace surround and painted it to look like sandstone.
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I did paint the soldier and yes, it's a blatant attempt at a copy. I made and finished the frame too.
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My concept drawing with the designer sitting over my shoulder.
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Two years later. The finished result.
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A silk pillow I painted.
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Painting on a wall.
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'Wuffie.' my son's best friend for 18 years, painted on plywood.
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A study for a mural backround.
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A study for a mural.
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A simple sky ceiling.
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I copied these too, more or less. I gave them nose jobs.
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Pen & ink of a clients house.
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They loved the carpeting, just not in the water closet. So I copied it in painted stenciling.
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Details of painted powder room floor.
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Painted wood floors.
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'Make them look alike.'
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I put the damaged painted finish back on the top and varnished it for safe keeping.
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Done. For: Hollhock
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Some boards. nail heads,wallpaper, and glazes.
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Painted & leafed plaster work

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It is just hydrocal (white plaster).
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For a time I made things to sell to stores. It's all hydrocal.

A dining room mural

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I did this in acrylic paint directly on the wall plaster. It was quite a long time ago. I wonder if it is still there. If I did something of this scale again I would do it on wallpapered canvas so it could be taken down and moved..

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Silver leafed and antiqued.
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Stencils on a chimney. From the ground you'd never know.
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