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Justin Owens Art
@justinowensart.bsky.social
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Artist and educator. Enjoys painting both traditionally and digitally. Landscapes, cute critters, and plein air painting are my jam.
| Curriculum Director & Instructional Designer at Animation Mentor |
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Hey #PortfolioDay - I'm Justin and I love painting color keys and backgrounds. Looking for opportunities to work on some projects.
Color keys for a personal project. Lighting guides and color/mood beats across a short film. Background painting of a fantasy landscape, forest with interesting shapes, depicting afternoon lighting Background painting of a fantasy landscape, exploring a night time color and lighting treatment. Value composition and color and light exploration for a fantasy landscape/background painting
July 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Film studies to practice cinematic lighting. Longlegs, It Follows, Underwater, Witcher.
#art
Digital painting of a still frame from the movie longlegs. A woman stands before a wall with papers pinned to it. Dark and moody lighting. Digital painting of a still frame from the movie It Follows. A woman sits on a bed putting on shoes. Art study of a scene from the Witcher. Shows Geralt silhouetted against a window, light is blue and hallway is dark. Still frame study from the movie Underwater. Lighting is green and fluorescent. A woman sits in a locker room and seems pensive.
May 16, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Attempted a 3min study but more like 6-7min. Hard to stop! Film study of dogpool from Deadpool & Wolverine.
Digital painting study from Deadpool and Wolverine. A dog (dogpool) runs towards the viewer backlit by the sun.
May 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Happy Star Wars day! Gouache study from Return of the Jedi.
#MayTheFourth #MayThe4th
Gouache paint study from return of the Jedi. Luke skywalker in Jedi robes in Jabba’s palace.
May 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Trying a new recipe, lemon pudding cakes! My partner’s coworkers keep passing us amazing lemons and I’m like, what do I make?? This apparently.
Baked lemon pudding cakes in 6 inch ramekins dusted with powdered sugars.
April 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Another set of mapcrunch studies. Been having fun doing a few of these each day. Trying to keep them quick and focus on color palette experimentation.
#art #virtualpleinair #color
Digital landscape painting of a road with grass on either side and trees receding into the distance. Daytime colors are warm and cool greens with long shadows. Digital landscape painting of a road with grass on either side and trees receding into the distance. Nightime colors are dark blues, violets, and reds.
January 5, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Doing some mapcrunch studies today and playing with different lighting ideas. Also don’t want to go back to work tomorrow. Only paint, no work!
#art #virtualpleinair
January 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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I recently discovered Jeff the land shark and fell in love. Here’s an iPhone-esque wallpaper crop of some fanart. Enjoy!
#art #itsjeff
Jeff the landshark on a stroll in a bright and warm landscape. Digital painting
December 26, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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Limited palette study from map crunch. Ultramarine blue light, carmine and Naples yellow. Really liked using Naples yellow, hadn’t explored that much before.
#gouache #art #virtualpleinair
Traditional gouache landscape painting using a limited palette of ultramarine blue, carmine and Naples yellow. Impressionistic more so than realism.
December 7, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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Been going through my travel photos for painting inspiration. I'm noticing a tendancy towards tight compositions in my photography. That's all well and good, but not as helpful when wanting to use for reference! Note to self: take two photos and help future us out!
Photo of brunch tables outside of a diner in Oregon. The sunlight is hitting orange umbrellas over the tables, and it's creating this cool light effect where everything underneathe is really warm.
December 6, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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Still frame studies from two films (Nomadland and Nope). Really helping in terms of exploring color mixing and value contrast. Nope was interesting in that everything seemed to have a very subtle green tint.
#art #gouache #composition
Two gouache studies from different films. Nomadland shows a twilight image in an arid area with a lone figure. Nope shows a bright dry arid landscape with distant hills.
November 24, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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Getting back into painting and learning gouache. Has been challenging, but slowly feeling more comfortable.
#art #pleinair #gouache
Landscape thumbnail paintings done traditionally with gouache. 2x3 inches. Mendocino coastal view, and forest. Landscape gouache painting studies, 4x5 inches. Using a limited palette: red, black, yellow ochre and white 4x5 painting study of a wave with gouache. Using a limited palette with no blue, so the wave is more golden yellow Small landscape thumbnail paintings with gouache, approximately 2x3 inches. Forest road, river and ocean views
November 16, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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Painting I did for a class demo a few years ago. I do love spooky season, but have not painted anything spooky recently!
Digital painting of a friendly looking pumpkin and a small ghost friend
October 30, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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Watercolor creature sketch from a few years ago. Recall just having fun with blending forms and seeing what shapes would reveal themselves.

Currently focused on learning gouache, but bit of a visual reminder of how fun this was to explore!
Watercolor sketch slash painting depicting a creature with big black eyes and tentacle like appendages on its head #art #watercolor
October 22, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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If you've ever wondered what makes a bear in fact "chonky", let me share my research! This study was peer reviewed by folks who said things like, "oh so chonky!"
Scientific diagram of the anatomy of a chonky bear with callouts.
October 19, 2024 at 9:53 PM
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Getting back into painting for myself by doing a crowdfunded project with a friend. Enjoying painting the fat bears of Katmai National Park!
September 22, 2024 at 10:21 PM