JM Quinn Studios: August 2012

Our focus is on creating art that brings believability to film and stage productions, a better work environment to your employees, as well as invites customers to come in and do business with you. Art can create a desirable destination in a mundane world. Think back to how great art created favorite places in your past. We strive to create real world art that causes your audiences, employees and customers to want to come back to you for a rewarding experience. We love taking on any and all visual design challenges that our current projects schedule will allow. Or we can put you into our calendar que. In addition to remarkable artistic talent amongst our team members, we can boast a state of the art shop that allows us to produce one of a kind art and signage and stage dressing that is much more affordable than you would imagine. You don't have to be a Rockefeller to commission our work. Take one of our recent projects, at ADP, for example. Employing trompe l'oeil (deceive the eye) techniques, as well as shop fabricated art components we created a common area indoor space that chases away the winter blues. An indoor forest if you will, a relaxing space that allows employees to take a break and get back to work with more energy. Give us your challenge, you won't be disappointed.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Fifty Films

5 days ago I got a call from Tom at Fifty-Films asking whether I had ever done any auto type painting. I told him I had done a little and he asked if I thought I could do a custom paint job on an entire plane over the weekend. At first I thought "no way" but the money was right, even after beating the next lowest bid by $500 and I'm not working on anything with a strict deadline so I thought I'd give it a try. They needed me to paint a wrecked plane at a set in Salt Lake to match a sound plane they had filmed in Nepal. The color references weren't great but after a few corrections I think it went great and they were happy with the result.

The wrecked plane before the matching paint job.

The sound plane in Nepal

The plane after the paint job.

I guess this weekend they're going to slam the whole thing into a hill side somewhere. Oh well.

Monday, August 6, 2012

I like to paint for kids. They're unapologetic for their enthusiasm and think that every stroke of paint is pure magic. I've had a couple of opportunities to do work right in front of them in elementary schools and I never get tired of their questions and excitement. Here are a few of the things I've done for kids.

This is my friend Jason Strate. He was a technology teacher and JV football coach at the time. He asked for permission to have something painted on the wall in his room and was denied. So we did it any way. He has since moved to Principal position at the middle school and this painting is still on the wall. He's also shaved that goofy goatee.

This is one of the earliest and simplest pieces I've done.

This one is painted in the school my wife Kay teaches. That's the school in the background. They're the "Reading Thunderbirds"
Those are my kids on the back of the T-Bird, not Harry Potter.

This is my son's room. We're plane enthusiasts.