Explorations

In 2021 I decided to pick up oil paints and try a few things on my time away from my usual painting style. I came up with the pseudonym Jinn Olasmo, which is an anagram of my real name. I had a website dedicated to the work I was doing there but moved it here. Having painted for close to 20 years, I've realized it's difficult for me to stay focused on one idea. I tend to wander, exploring other thoughts that seem interesting. Although staying on track takes a lot of energy, I've learned to allow room for change. I think it goes back to what I envisioned when I was very young; I'm trying to reconnect with what I loved about art then. It's been a struggle, and even though people might not recognize it in my work, I've learned to be okay with exploring and will continue to do so. Here is where I will showcase the things I have done under the pseudonym Olasmo, as well as the things I have signed as my regular old self. Please contact me if any should interest you.

Lincoln

Lincoln is my daughter’s cat. She walked into our yard in early 2011 during a yard sale we were having. The Christmas prior to that our daughter asked for a cat as a gift. All we could give her was a toy plush cat since my wife was known to be allergic to cats. We ended up keeping her, but originally thought she was male, hence her name.

In the collection of C. Rivera

Time To Go

Another in the rebus puzzle series. Painting the greasy bag was really fun. There is no real restaurant with that happy hot dog. I designed, printed and greased it up myself.

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Butterfly

Part of doing these rebus puzzle type of paintings is curating objects to make the words work. The thing about this housefly toy that caught my eye was the iridescent wings. turns out I enjoyed painting the butter more that the wings, but there is something about this combo that makes me chuckle.

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Naïve

The draw here was the typography and exploring new surfaces. In a quest to paint music through time I thought I’d start with myself - tell a few things about the music I cared about when I was young. It was important to grab items that were from the time period, which sometimes made things difficult, but still exciting.

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Luna

A complex painting, but not in conceptuality. It was simple, I like the image and decided it should be painted. Luna, is the dogs name. She came to us with a large wound on her shoulder. She was nursed back to health and remained with us. The scar that remained was shaped like a letter “L”.

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Mickey Gets Lucky

When I started to paint with oils instead of my usual acrylics, this is where I started. My initial thought was to catch screen grabs of old lesser-known horror and sci-fi movies. I had the idea of doing at least three screen grabs per movie. It felt a bit strange knowing that someone involved in the movie had the initial thought to shoot it this way, so I moved to something else.

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I’m Gonna Hold On

At a point I decided to paint devices that delivered music through time. One of the things about them is they are covered in text and symbols. I love painting those tiny things. I thought I would enjoy painting the ravioli in this piece, but I admit it was the Coors can. This painting is loosely based on my father - really just anyone that has bad habits and always doing their best to stay good inside.

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Cool Inside

I took this reference image of my daughter in front of a closed down souvenir shop across from of the Alamo. I get’s pretty hot here in San Antonio so I guess it makes sense to let people know it’s cool in your shop to draw them in. I’ve never really been into abstract paintings, but I found the window to have that feel and I enjoyed painting it.

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Closer

More of me portraying music via my daughter. I used the contents of what I liked in the late 80’s and adorned her with them. Sort of a way of capturing me through her at around the same age.

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Flika in glasses

For a second I turned my attention to old photographs to drive acrylic paintings - to utilize my daily medium of acrylic and use them in a totally different way from pieces utilizing skeletons. When I step away into these different ways of working I always walk away with something learned and seek to do more.

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Hot Dog

For a while I had it in my head to make paintings that were like a rebus puzzle, where I’d use objects and symbols to represent a word or words. The initial thought came from looking at old Lone Star Beer bottle caps. The idea behind this painting is simply “hot dog”. Aside from Tabasco, I hadn’t really tasted any of the other hot sauces. I was simply going off the bottles I liked visually. I tasted them when I was done and they were not so hot.

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Only You Can

Just an excuse to paint an old radio and Smokey the Bear!

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Sheepskate

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electric blue for me

A still life through music in the 80’s. I love the colors in this one and the hairspray was a blast to paint. Definitely sparks more ideas when I look at this painting. The reason I stepped into painting with oils was to get a handle on the medium, but as I move forward with them it leaves me with a need to loosen things up where they feel right.

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Bottles

Another old photograph done in acrylics. There’s something about this dusty atmosphere that drew me in. I think I wondered how these dogs felt way back when. Overall it’s the bottles, letters and logos that I wanted to paint.

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