Whimsical Artist Jake Hose

Methods

n the dark wintry months the rain pours down onto a studio in the suburbs of Seattle, here Jake is working out a vision onto the surface of a fresh canvas. Inside his studio are piles of sketches; paintings adorn the walls, stacks of music CDs, around an artist hard at work channeling his creativity.

One look at Jake’s art and you will instantly sense the playful humor and feel the excitement in his paintings. Yet take a deeper look, you will see layers of enigmatic shapes and symbols partially revealing themselves through the many complex and colorful transparent layers.

You’ll notice his masterful control of the paint medium while portraying a depth of story and composition that is very fascinating. They are paintings made by an artistic intellectual who has studied and framed art made from around the world for almost 2 decades.

Jake Hose’s signature style pulls together an unusual array of techniques, both used by the Renaissance Masters and Master techniques used in Modern Art. He paints these whimsical pieces with acrylic paints on premium canvas.

Paintings like these are hard to make, complex and time consuming, for each layer of paint must be methodically designed and each layer must dry before another is put on top of it. Some layers are made to create the effect of illumination mastered by artists during the Northern Renaissance.

His color challenges the trends and fads of the day suggesting his open-minded view of color and his complete freedom through methodical color arrangements. Jake uses color in a progressive way utilizing a full pallet of colors; soothing, intense, neutral, and dramatic hues all fearlessly composed together like listening to a live symphony.

Then comes the complex story, like the one below in the Russian Princess, it is a painting in the ongoing Ethnic Princess series. The theme for this series is to celebrate the beauty of different woman and cultures around the world, sharing their beauty and significance with others.

In much of Jake Hose’s work it brings together an exciting and deep visual story telling experience, filled with an incredible amount of imagery to help share his story.

To begin the Russian Princess, great care went into learning about the Russian culture through the reading of Russian fairy tales, and other learning material. Then came the composition sketches and a color study to later build a set of colors he calls “foundational colors”.

Below are sample photos of the progression of “The Russian Princess”

“The Russian Princess” took around 100 hours from start to finish, over a month of session work, which is not uncommon for one of Jake’s more complex pieces. The finished size of this painting is 18x24 and the original was framed with an Italian designed gold leafed frame.

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Methods

n the dark wintry months the rain pours down onto a studio in the suburbs of Seattle, here Jake is working out a vision onto the surface of a fresh canvas. Inside his studio are piles of sketches; paintings adorn the walls, stacks of music CDs, around an artist hard at work channeling his creativity.

One look at Jake’s art and you will instantly sense the playful humor and feel the excitement in his paintings. Yet take a deeper look, you will see layers of enigmatic shapes and symbols partially revealing themselves through the many complex and colorful transparent layers.

You’ll notice his masterful control of the paint medium while portraying a depth of story and composition that is very fascinating. They are paintings made by an artistic intellectual who has studied and framed art made from around the world for almost 2 decades.

Jake Hose’s signature style pulls together an unusual array of techniques, both used by the Renaissance Masters and Master techniques used in Modern Art. He paints these whimsical pieces with acrylic paints on premium canvas.

Paintings like these are hard to make, complex and time consuming, for each layer of paint must be methodically designed and each layer must dry before another is put on top of it. Some layers are made to create the effect of illumination mastered by artists during the Northern Renaissance.

His color challenges the trends and fads of the day suggesting his open-minded view of color and his complete freedom through methodical color arrangements. Jake uses color in a progressive way utilizing a full pallet of colors; soothing, intense, neutral, and dramatic hues all fearlessly composed together like listening to a live symphony.

Then comes the complex story, like the one below in the Russian Princess, it is a painting in the ongoing Ethnic Princess series. The theme for this series is to celebrate the beauty of different woman and cultures around the world, sharing their beauty and significance with others.

In much of Jake Hose’s work it brings together an exciting and deep visual story telling experience, filled with an incredible amount of imagery to help share his story.

To begin the Russian Princess, great care went into learning about the Russian culture through the reading of Russian fairy tales, and other learning material. Then came the composition sketches and a color study to later build a set of colors he calls “foundational colors”.

Below are sample photos of the progression of “The Russian Princess”

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