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New Landscape Painting + How I Killed and Revived It.

August 1st, 2011 · View Comments · Uncategorized

This painting was a fun one to make once I got over the hurdle of screwing it up. I’m sure many other artists can relate. My process is certainly not a linear one, where the painting starts off great, and gets better and better until completion. In fact, for me a painting usually starts off [...]

Painting start-to-finish – Detroit Institute of Arts

December 15th, 2010 · View Comments · Uncategorized

I recently finished the painting below of the Detroit Institute of Arts building, and recorded the process via my Flip cam. The idea for the painting came out of my desire to take a Detroit landmark, and represent it in a slightly abstracted manner. Check out the video below to watch the painting develop from [...]

Pancakes painting in progress

October 8th, 2010 · View Comments · Uncategorized

A friend of mine recently told me in reference to a previous painting of pancakes I did, that her and her husband bond over pancakes in their marriage. I think that’s really cool. I’m trying to think what my wife and I bond over… perhaps sushi, since our first real date occurred at a sushi [...]

Azoni Briefs

September 24th, 2010 · View Comments · Uncategorized

No I’m not starring in a Hanes commercial… unfortunately. But I have begun somewhat of an experiment. For a while now I’ve been looking for a way to sell paintings at prices accessible to the every day art lover, while still maintaining the integrity of my regular prices. So here’s what I’m rollin’ with: A [...]

Recent phone art

July 21st, 2010 · View Comments · Uncategorized

I recently got the new HTC Evo 4g for Android and have been loving making quick ‘paint’ sketches using an app called Paint Joy. Here are some recent doodlings.

Back from hiatus

June 7th, 2010 · View Comments · Uncategorized

I took a brief hiatus from making new work so I could focus on getting married. See proof below. The wedding was pretty amazing. I am a very proud husband of my wife, Laura. Now that we’ve been back to normal life for about a month, and I’ve cleared out a lot of old paintings [...]

John Azoni: Detroit Artist