WELCOME TO MY FREELANCE PAINTING AND ILLUSTRATION WEBSITE

 
     I am a painter, illustrator and and military veteran with a strong foundation in drawing and etching. My goal is to delight viewers, clients and students along the way. All are welcome to climb into the three dimensional spaces I've created on the pages and roam about freely! Walk the decks and climb the rigging of old ships from the past; see images of Baghdad through a soldier's eye.
​     I would enjoy illustrating a great story and I'm open to any and all ideas.
     COMMERCIAL ILLUSTRATION work is welcomed. The pictures on this site speak for themselves. Viewers of my works will find that they are nearly always pictures of natural or man made objects done in a very naturalistic and three-dimensional way. I try to make visually exciting images that stir the soul. It is definitely not photorealism - I draw the old fashioned direct observation way combined with building, on paper, scenery from my imagination. This is my forte and I hope that my work catches your eye and that you get a huge charge out of it. 

   Please call, text, or e-mail me to talk if you are interested in buying.  

My work is not matted or framed. Some work is displayed here in a frame or matt, but all work is shipped without frame or matte. 
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​CONTACT INFO: 

 jpfisherstudio@gmail.com
​ph # 910-964-0105

I do not have an on-line store. Please contact me and we will discuss the particulars of payment, shipping, etc.




The Marquis de Lafayette
Oil Painting 
26 x 30"
$300 (unframed)

"Son of New Orleans"
Oil Painting
30" X 42" 
$500


Picture
"Son of New Orleans" is my impression of what the soldiers and Militia might have seen in the quiet time before leaving the City to go to Chalmette to fight the British. Martial Law has been declared and they are out patrolling the streets. Andrew Jackson and Jean Lafitte, the pirate, can be seen on a balcony having a cocktail. The Militiaman in the foreground is carrying a French Charleville 1777 Musket. He is wearing a French hat of the Napoleonic era. These things would be commonly found in New Orleans back then. The ship is an anonymous Sloop of War which I will claim was one of many ships that Lafitte had during his illustrious days as a pirate. I hope I have made the people from this fantastic event in our history come to life a bit. By the way, such people still walk among us. Are you one of them?

 "WW I Doughboy in a Gas Mask II"
16 x 20"
Woodcut Print
​Edition of 30
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Here is a close look at a WWI soldier fighting for his life in the trenches. He is anonymous. Had he been a cowboy? An Immigrant? The Grandson of a Confederate or Yankee soldier? Or perhaps his folks had been Slaves? Behind the haunting image of a gas-mask is a generation of young men who experienced the Hell of The Great War, and they must never be forgotten. The rights to WWI Doughboy woodcut are owned by the US ARMY Reserve Command. They bought a print and the publishing rights. I can still the individual prints.

Dragon #3
Intaglio Etching from Copper Plate
9" X 12"
​Open Edition
​$50

Sailing Ship and Clouds
24" x 36"
​$300

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"WOODEN BOAT IN DISTRESS" 
Intaglio and Aquatint Copper-Plate Etching 
Edition of 60, with variations
Image Size - 9 x 12"
​$75

This boat is a Middle Eastern Dhow. They are an ancient style that are still being used. "Wooden Boat in Distress" shows a Dhow that has been caught in a storm and is being overtaken by a large wave. Will the crew survive? During these troubled times some things stay the same all over the world. The danger to sailors is captured in this print.

"THE NEW ORLEANS BUS"
Color Woodcut using the Reductive Method
Image Size: 15 x 22.5"
Edition of 5
Only this one is remaining

Picture
Here is a New Orleans Municipal bus from the 1960's era. For only about 35 cents I could get anywhere in the City. These buses were an oasis from the humid, tropical air of New Orleans. Strong fans blew cool air on you as soon as you entered. I've indicated the different climates by making the color inside the bus bluer than the more greenish exterior. This is fun, yes? I lived in the Lakeview area of New Orleans as a boy. 

"WOODEN SHIP #4"
Intaglio and Aquatint Copper-Plate Etching
Open Edition, with variations
Image Size: 9 x 12"
​$100

"HOME AGAIN FROM THE DEEP"
Intaglio and Aquatint Copper-Plate Etching
Edition of 5
Image Size: 9 x 12"

 "Scene at the Front"
WWI Soldier in Gas Mask I
Woodcut
18 x 15"
Edition of 100
​$150
"Blue Dragon"
Fountain pen 
​$100
"Blackhawk Company"
T-Shirt Design 
Fountain Pen and Photoshop
​not for sale
This handsome fellow is the logo of my Son-in-Law's former unit, Bravo Company, 2/87 Infantry. I drew if from a plastic skull that I've had for decades.  My college roommate named him  "Eugene", after Eugene Delacroix. This drawing illustrates how my lines seem to closely hug the inner and outer curves of the surfaces. This is my forte. 


"Eugene in Cinco de Mayo Colors"
​Watercolor
12" X 16"

"EXPLODING YELLOWSTONE"
The Caldera explodes for two young tourists
Pencil Drawing
18 x 24"
This happy couple is about to be vaporized by the exploding "caldera" under Yellowstone National Park. You just never know what the day will bring.

Book Cover Illustration
Digital
NOT FOR SALE
​​Contact me for illustration work

Picture
This is my first Book Cover, done for a great friend that I served with in Iraq.  He's become a writer. His book is not yet published. We are working on another book anyway. 

"The Mermaid of Loch Upchurch"
Woodcut
28 1/2 x 18 1/2"
Edition of 200
​$100 Unmatted

Picture



I drew her first on a dry-erase board in front of my elementary school art students. It got such a great response that I gridded the original and transferred her to a block.

This print is a departure from my usual foreboding and somewhat gloomy images. I like her cheerfulness and upbeat expression. Also, she gave me the opportunity to showcase my figure drawing know-how.
Picture
"Shopping the Rusafa District" (Baghdad, 2006)
Intaglio Copper-plate Aquatint Etching 
8x10"
Edition of 150 (In Progress)
​$90 unmatted
This was a common scene in Baghdad. I spent over three years of my life in Baghdad, first with the U.S. Army as a soldier, and then as a security contractor. I am very proud to be a Military Veteran and I feel compelled to share some of the unique thing that we get to see. The Iraq women did the household chores, to include all the shopping. With electricity sporadic at best, food refrigerators could not keep food fresh for long. Consequently, the ladies had to buy food at the marketplaces every few days. These marketplaces were the very targets of the sectarian violence of mad suicide bombers. Ladies like this, often with children in tow, were frequently the casualties. This peaked during the summer of 2006, while I was there, and it was heartbreaking. In the background, a gun-truck of a militia faction cruises by. Encountering them was a dangerous situation for a Westerner. The building in the background is typical of the wonderful old architecture of the Rusafa District. It was built by the Brits in the early 20th Century.

"Cat with Vase"
Woodcut
16x20"
Edition of 200
​$100

Picture
Cats are cool. So are dogs. This is a fun departure from the normal dark and stressful scenes I often create.

"Ruins with Cats" (with many variations)
Copper plate Intaglio Etching
3 X 5"
Edition of 100
​$75

Picture
I experimented with this copper plate over the course of a year or two. Many of the prints are quite different, as I tried out new techniques, new tools, a different concentration of the Ferric Chloride solution, etc. As different as they are, all still have a certain charm.

"Fish Study with Dragonfly"
Oil Painting
16 X 20"
​$200

"Up in the Rigging"
Woodcut
12 1/2 x 15"
Edition in progress
​$100

I did this while making "Wooden Boat in Distress" and "Wooden Ship#2". Here I wanted to spotlight the crewmen who operated the old ships. Around this time I visited Mystic Seaport in Connecticut and climbed around on a few of them. The details were fresh in my mind.