Jason E. Collinge

Bruce Lee (22 x 27 inches: Quill & Ink on Rag Paper)

Bruce Lee (李小龍; Lee Jun-fan, 李振藩; 1940–1973) was a Hong Kong American martial artist, Hong Kong action film actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, filmmaker, and the founder of Jeet Kune Do.  Often credited with changing the way Asians were presented in American films, commentators, critics, media, and other martial artists consider him one of the most influential martial artists of all time, and a pop culture icon of the 20th century.

He is noted for his roles in five feature-length films: The Big Boss (1971) and Fist of Fury (1972); Way of the Dragon (1972), directed and written by Lee; Enter the Dragon (1973) and The Game of Death (1973).  Lee became an iconic figure throughout the world, as he portrayed Chinese nationalism in his films.  He trained in the art of Wing Chun and later combined his other influences from various sources, in the spirit of his personal martial arts philosophy, which he dubbed Jeet Kune Do (The Way of the Intercepting Fist).

Eye (24 x 22 inches: Chalk on Cardboard)

Teapot (8.5 x 11 inches: Acrylic Water Colour on Paper)

In this image, Jason is experimenting with acrylic paint in a water colour style employing only the three primary hues, red, yellow, and blue.  Jason attempts to create warmth through the warmer yellows and reds, while also creating shading, shadow, and profundity by blending in the cool blues.  The result is a variety of hues, including the secondary and tertiary, tints, and tones.

The Boot (8 x 10 inches: Acrylic on Paper)

The Kiss (36 x 48 inches: Acrylic on Canvas)

The Scuba Diver (18 x 24 inches: Acrylic Paint on Cardboard)

This piece was completed in conjunction with Phillip, one of Jason's students in the English through Art course at ILSC Education Group.

The Small Dog (8.5 x 11 inches: Acrylic Water Colour on Paper)

In this image, Jason is experimenting with acrylic paint in a water colour style employing only the three primary hues, red, yellow, and blue.  Jason attempts to create warmth through the warmer yellows and reds, while also creating shading, shadow, and profundity by blending in the cool blues.  The result is a variety of hues, including the secondary and tertiary, tints, and tones.  In addition to the hues he employed, Jason used soft smearing to render the texture of the dog's dark coat.  He used mottling to form the surroundings, the background and the floor, layering several applications of paint to achieve profundity while still maintaining the dog as the focal point of the piece.  Employing perspective with the dog to create interest, he placed the face and head in the foreground and the body in the mid-ground.  Shadows where the dog's paws touch the floor serve to ground the dog, providing solidity to its form in addition to placing it in a realistic space and showing the direction of the light.  The viewer may also observe an increased contrast, great contrast, between the figure of the dog and the background, which serves to draw the viewer's attention more to the dog.

The Spotted Owl (8.5 x 11 inches: Acrylic Mixed Medium on Paper)

The Girl (8.5 x 11 inches: Acrylic on Paper)

Are You My Mummy? (36 x 24 inches: Acrylic Paint on Cardboard)

Using a modified palette of deep violets, pumpkin oranges, and bright sickly greens, in “Are You My Mummy?,” Jason gives a nod to the British science-fiction television programme Doctor Who, specifically the 9^th (Christopher Eccleston), 10^th (David Tennant), and 12^th (Peter Capaldi) incarnations of the Doctor, by referencing the following episodes of the 2005 re-launched series: Series 1 – episode 9 “The Empty Child”; Series 1 – episode 10 “The Doctor Dances”; Series 4 – episode 5 “The Poison Sky”; and Series 8 – episode 8 “Mummy on the Orient Express.”  Limiting depth, the mottled pumpkin orange appears to swirl in the background like a haze of mustard gas while the mask’s great contrast of bright sickly green and dark black increases the mask’s volume and profundity.  Having initially rendered the mask’s glass eyes in detail, Jason has experimented with white glue over still wet acrylic paint, which has resulted in the pockmarked surface of reflective glass, the purple of which providing further depth while adumbrating the wearer’s features.