Friday, July 19, 2024 Jay Long, from Austin, Texas, has been designated as the Fall featured artist for Cottonwood Art Festival in Richardson, to happen from October 5-6. Making use of idiosyncrasies, Long ingeniously combines curious beings, mechanics and sentiment into his oil paintings. ‘The Outing’ portrays an elongated elephant carrying a duck, cat, rabbit, frog and donkey as they travel over a hill, through the clouds and exploration leaving the city behind.
The artist gives amusing names to factual paintings like ‘The Owltlet,’ that mingles a stoic standing owl with a double electrical outlet. There is a marvelous sense of curiosity and pensiveness to the layers of detail and connotation put into the designs. Generating mixed-media paintings, Long starts the creative procedure with an inspiring idea every so often from music, literature or theater.
The sketch of the awareness is a way of individually deducing historic or present-day culture. Drawings are shifted to a wood panel and then cut to an outline. Oil paint is smeared over collaged text from found books.
The portraits are mounted in artist made box stands and linen frames. Long said that he is happy and privileged to have his work emphasized by the beautiful people at Cottonwood Art Festival. Official goods with Long’s presented creation will be obtainable for buying at the festival or online, and comprises a poster, T-shirts and stickers along with keepsakes.
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