Jon Laidacker

The medium of digital painting is new. While it has managed to be acknowledged, it has a way to go in gaining genuine appreciation among fine artists.

Over the last decade, I have been creating art using Procreate and an iPad — alongside works on paper and canvas. To me, it is just another medium for creating. All the guidance I received as an academically trained painter is directly applicable to my digital tools.

I exclusively work directly from observation when drawing or painting digitally. My goal is to keep my observational practice as traditional as possible. When advantageous, I use certain tools afforded me by the nature of the modern medium, though only when they are analogous to a tool or action used when working with traditional media. My goal is to create 21st-century work while continuing to use conceptual practices that have been passed down over the centuries.

Jon’s larger digital paintings, created in Procreate, are all available in limited editions of 25. (on cover)

“COVID

Still-Life 2”

280. framed 210. unframed

(opposite, at top)

“Generations: 40 Years on a Shelf (and a Mirror)”

180. framed 125. unframed

(above)

“Generations: 70 Years on a Shelf”

350. framed 250. unframed

Jon’s smaller paintings, also digital paintings in Procreate, are all in editions of 50 and 120. framed / 80. unframed

(far left) “Happy Little Painting”

(at left) “Listen Up”

(at right) “My Two Cents”

(far right) “Some Kind of Fruit Company”

All four of paintings are available in a special signed, limited-edition 4-pack, available at the bar 200.