Live Portrait Drawing Giveaway Winner!

Holiday Live Portrait Drawing Experience Instagram Giveaway Winner @agjemail

The drawing was created during a fun 20 minute virtual sitting on Zoom and delivered the original in a luxurious gift box with a magnetic closure as a unique and personal artwork for Antonella to keep.

This event is part of my collaboration with influencer and blogger @heymichelle1 🥂 a one stop shop for everything fun in Cincinnati.

Scroll to see photos of the making-of and the custom gift box. Interested to have your portrait or that of a loved one drawn by me? Visit my online store on this website to see the available options!

Upcoming in Antwerp, Belgium: Live Portrait Drawing Event — MINIMAL ART

salon kronenburg
Antwerp, Belgium
Sunday, December 18, 13u > 18u

This is a unique opportunity available this Holiday Season for € 50 EUR price per portrait drawing.

You will be purchasing a live drawing experience with artist Jarno Kettunen, which results in a hand–made “Minimal Art” style portrait illustration for you to take home. The drawings will be done with mixed materials on 8 x 10 in (203 x 254 mm) format fine art paper, signed and dated by the artist.

Sunday, December 18: 13u > 18u

salon kronenburg
Kronenburgstraat 21-23
Antwerp, Belgium
instagram: @salonkronenburg

Also available at the event
• Personalized live virtual portrait gift cards

Come by to have your portrait done, purchase gift cards, or simply to have a chat while seeing me draw!

Inside the Studio with Jarno Kettunen for JCM Foundation and Jimmy Choo

Inside my studio for a sneak peek at new original artworks commissioned by the JCM Foundation and JIMMY CHOO for an upcoming live event in Atlanta! Come be my fashion illustration muse on Dec. 9th. More info and updates coming up soon!

All the best,
Jarno

Saks Fifth Avenue Cincinnati Beauty Event Live Drawings

Had a wonderful time drawing people live at the Saks Fifth Avenue Cincinnati Beauty Event this last Saturday. Customers who purchased a certain amount of beauty products could have their portrait drawn by me—with real make-up such as from Chanel and Tom Ford! The resulting drawings were signed and handed out to customers in elegant Saks Fifth Avenue gift boxes. A day to remember and cherish for sure ❤️ Thank you Saks for having me! Scroll down for more photos.

LIVE ONLINE fashion illustration of Mr. Quin Lewis

LIVE ONLINE fashion illustration of Elevated Menswear & Luxe Connoisseur and Vogue Street Style Star Mr. Quin Lewis @fashion_powr . Check out Quin’s amazing story on this article on Vogue Magazine!

shirt: JW Anderson
pants: Thom Browne
sunglasses: Thierry Lasry
watch: Cartier
rings: Louis Vuitton

Live Online Portrait Drawing Session on December 10

Are you interested to have your portrait drawn live by me? Check out my LIVE-ONLINE event on the 10th of December 2020 from 10am–5pm EST (16:00–23:00 CET)! I will draw at the Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati as part of my artist micro residency, a collaboration that started from a commissioned live drawing performance for CAC’s ‘Art Off the Wall’ gala in 2018. Each 20 minute drawing session includes a short meet & greet before the drawing performance. Individual Zoom meeting invites will be e-mailed to you upon purchase. The drawings will be done on 11 x 14 in (27.9 x 35.6 cm) format fine art paper and include worldwide shipping within 2 business days.

Start scheduling by clicking the above 'Virtual Portrait Drawing Session' tab or on my instagram page @jarnosees by tapping the 'Book Now' button on your mobile app.

Want to have your friend, family member, colleague, or business partner drawn too? Check out my hand painted portrait gift vouchers on the web shop!

The drawings are priced at $500 USD and 20% of the proceeds will be directed to Reasons to be Cheerful. A non-profit editorial project, founded by David Byrne, that is tonic for tumultuous times.

** Special promotion: use the below code to receive a 10% discount when scheduling a drawing session or purchasing a portrait gift voucher by December 8! **
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Stay safe and well!
Jarno

New Behind-the-Scenes Photos: Sketching Coca-Cola Global Creative Campaign Photoshoot in Brooklyn, New York 2017

Shana Jade Trajanoska just sent me her awesome, previously unseen photos from 2017 when I was illustrating “behind-the-scenes” at a Coca-Cola Global Creative Campaign Photoshoot in Brooklyn, New York. They bring back many beautiful memories of working live on the set with the Coca-Cola Design dream team and top photographers Anna Palma and Guy Aroch. Follow Shana Jade Trajanoska on instagram @shanajade

Live Fashion Illustrations for s.Oliver

Very excited about my recent commission to illustrate the models at s.Oliver’s in-house fashion show live as it was happening on September 18th! This special collaboration includes the live fashion illustrations and portraits of select personalities of the German fashion company headquartered in Rottendorf. Here showcased are a few snapshots of the resulting live action drawings and the scene at the event.

Drawing at the Annual Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center Fundraiser Gala

On August 24th I was commissioned to illustrate live the glitzy performances of Cincinnati artists including wigmaker Stacey Vest and the performance group Forealism Tribe, all the while portraying VIP sponsors by appointment at the gala's cocktail hour. The ones who opted for a drawing got to take home an exclusive memento of the fabulous evening while the other guests could experience the process as it was happening!

Continue scrolling to view snapshots of the artworks as well as a few "making-of" photos, kindly provided by CAC.

Sketching Tziporah Salamon at the Cincinnati Art Museum

I had a blast sketching the energetic fashion performance of the New York style icon Tziporah Salamon yesterday at the Cincinnati Art Museum. What a fun and fabulous event this was! The performance was preceded by a private Sunday cocktail reception and followed by a lovely seated luncheon at the museum. Invited by chief curator Cynthia Amneus and the event sponsor Moe Rouse I was able to capture the action straight from the front row.

This was also the first time using my spanking new 12.9–inch iPad Pro with Procreate illustration software. You can view a selection of the resulting instant sketches in the above slide show. Let me know what you think!

Artist Feature on 'Iedereen Beroemd' show on Belgian TV channel één

Truly stoked about this feature about my live illustration work on the Belgian TV channel één (English)!
Please click the below link to view the video:
https://www.een.be/iedereen-beroemd/boekenbeurs-in-de-verf

RISD Museum's Lines of Thought Exhibition Opening Gala

At–the–moment illustration work for RISD Museum's Lines of Thought exhibition opening gala on October 5th 2017.

For this commission I was honoured with the task of portraying selected philanthropists as they arrived to the museum's exhibition viewing cocktail. The portrayed personalities were thrilled about the idea and meanwhile the rest of the crowd could experience the process as it was happening! The resulting artworks were signed and handed out in custom presentation cases as a unique gift from the museum.

Please scroll down to view a selection of the drawings as well as photos from the performance taken by Franky Claeys.

Interested of having me draw at your upcoming special events? Please don't hesitate to get in touch with my manager Carina De Becker or me.

Capturing Diane Pernet at the ASVOFF Screening, MFA Boston

Got a chance to capture the energy of the fashion icon Diane Pernet yesterday at her A Shaded View on Fashion Film screening at MFA Boston yesterday! I had the honor to meet her the first time in 2007 at the Noovo fashion festival in Santiago de Compostela and since then she has featured my work a couple of times on her website A Shaded View on Fashion. Really stoked to see her again in Boston and wishing her safe travels back to Paris!

ESSENTIEL ANTWERP X DESIGNERS AGAINST AIDS COLLECTION LAUNCH

New live portrait drawing event, commissioned by Essentiel Antwerp for the ESSENTIEL ANTWERP X DESIGNERS AGAINST AIDS Collection Private Launch Party.

The party was held at the chique pop–up space A–TOWER in Antwerp and my task was to capture the essence of invited personalities including members of press and celebrities from Belgium and around. The drawing performance itself generated a great deal of excitement, and the brave ones who stroke a pose will receive the original drawing as a truly unique and exclusive keepsake — courtesy of ESSENTIEL ANTWERP and DESIGNERS AGAINST AIDS.

Ninette Murk of DESIGNERS AGAINST AIDS

Ph. Copyright ESSENTIEL ANTWERP

Ph. Copyright ESSENTIEL ANTWERP

Tom De Poortere of ESSENTIEL ANTWERP

Jani Kazaltzis and friend

Delphine Perroy

Adrien Gras