Jon Hul
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Jon Hul is an American pin-up artist known for his photorealistic paintings and drawings of models who have appeared in Playboy magazine.
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[edit] Biography
He was born in Pittsburgh, PA and later grew up in California and Nevada. He attended Orr Junior High School in Las Vegas, NV in 1971. In 1974, he attended Valley High School where he studied ceramics, oil painting, watercolors, and commercial design.
After graduating from Valley High School in 1976, he taught himself how to play drums and played gigs off and on for a few years in a funk band called Soul Connection.
He decided to become a full-time artist in 1987 and to focus on fatherhood.
He is not a college graduate, and is mainly self-taught. He has noted as early influences the artists Salvador Dalí, Frank Frazetta, Alberto Vargas, M. C. Escher, Pablo Picasso, and later Patrick Nagel, Olivia De Berardinis and Hajime Sorayama.
Frequent subjects for his erotic art include Shae Marks, Suzi Simpson, Victoria Zdrok, Julie Strain, Anna Nicole Smith, and Pamela Anderson. He uses the media of watercolor, acrylic paint, oils, and pencil.
[edit] Books
- The Art of Jon Hul (2003) (ISBN 0-86562-082-2)
- The Jon Hul Sketchbook Volume One (2006) (ISBN 0-86562-136-5)
[edit] References
- Official site Bio
- Chester, Tony. The Art of Jon Hul book review, Concatenation.org, retrieved December 4, 2006
