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 [...]
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New Landscape Painting + How I Killed and Revived It.
August 1st, 2011 · View Comments · Uncategorized
Tags:abstract landscape·detroit art·John Azoni Landscape·landscape painting·Large Scale Painting·painting·process
How to make bad art less
October 9th, 2010 · View Comments · Uncategorized
Lately my struggle as a painter has been to get out of my head and stop trying so hard. It’s no coincidence that some of my favorite paintings have come from not trying at all. Like this painting for example: This one I did back in 2007. I was literally just trying not to waste unused [...]
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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 [...]
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