Jackie Mahoney,
PicsArt’s Cubist
Painter
Jackie Mahoney (@jackmack830) is a
PicsArt user who seems to be touched by
the ghosts of great painters of the past.
There’s some Picasso, or perhaps even
a touch of Georges Braque, in Jackie’s
paintings, created using PicsArt Drawing
Tools.
Maybe it’s the wine, cheese, and cobblestone
roads in these paintings that bring us to the
painter’s paradise of classic France, but his
stripping down of details in favor of a more
geometric reinvisioning of color and shape
is what really brings down the hammer and
nails him to the visionary cubist movement
of the early 20th century.
No matter Jackie’s inspiration, it is clear that
he knows how to paint beautifully, using
the modern customizable PicsArt brushes
to create something that looks classic. His
colors were not mixed from plastic tubes
squeezed out on a piece of wood, but rather
summoned by his fingertips on a touch
screen, then applied with precision and care
in his PicsArt workspace. No mess, no stains,
no canvas - just PicsArt, the art studio in his
pocket that lets him explore and practice
his love of painting whenever the call of
inspiration strikes, or a ghost painter from
an earlier century taps him on his shoulder
with an idea.
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