{"id":3765,"date":"2016-09-15T13:13:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T13:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3765"},"modified":"2016-09-15T13:13:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T13:13:43","slug":"geometric-watercolors-by-artist-jacob-van-loon-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/15\/geometric-watercolors-by-artist-jacob-van-loon-colossal\/","title":{"rendered":"Geometric Watercolors by Artist Jacob Van Loon | Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2016\/09\/geometric-watercolors-by-artist-jacob-van-loon\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/jacob-1.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2016\/09\/geometric-watercolors-by-artist-jacob-van-loon\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/jacob-4.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2016\/09\/geometric-watercolors-by-artist-jacob-van-loon\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/jacob-5.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recent Colorado transplant\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacobvanloon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob van Loon<\/a>\u00a0creates geometric watercolors that seem to visually reference abstract architectural renderings. The colors in his works look as if they have bled beyond recognition of a specific site or landmark, yet still retain a strict set of dense and chaotic lines. The paintings trap specific colors in the boxes of their grid-like surface, yet also allow some to traverse throughout the work, alternating between clean and hazy sections of muted blues and bright oranges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the time I have a final sketch, the layers of primer are caked up and full of valleys and ridges created by broad brush strokes,\u201d van Loon told <a href=\"http:\/\/thecreatorsproject.vice.com\/blog\/explosions-in-the-sky-wilderness-art-premiere\" target=\"_blank\">The Creator\u2019s Project<\/a>. \u201cWhen I\u2019m ready for color, it\u2019s not just about pragmatically filling in the spaces, it\u2019s about putting paint down, letting it travel in the valleys and ridges, and seeing where and how it all comes to rest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2016\/09\/geometric-watercolors-by-artist-jacob-van-loon\/\">Geometric Watercolors by Artist Jacob Van Loon | Colossal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Colorado transplant\u00a0Jacob van Loon\u00a0creates geometric watercolors that seem to visually reference abstract architectural renderings. The colors in his works look as if they have bled beyond recognition of a specific site or landmark, yet still retain a strict set of dense and chaotic lines. The paintings trap specific colors in the boxes of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-YJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3769,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions\/3769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}