Marjasall Productions
The Artworks of Mark Jason Allen
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Intuitive Painting is a Joy
While trying out a handful of various watercolor brushes, I found myself creating an intuitive watercolor painting. It’s quite fun and relaxing, intuitive painting. If you aren’t familiar, intuitive painting is having no preconceived idea of what you are even going to paint. There’s no plan. No subject matter. Each line, wash, layer of paint…
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The Mini Travel Palette
As Summer approaches the days have been getting very warm. We’ve had many sunny days in the 70s and 80s (F). Flowers are blooming, our vegetable garden is coming up, and everything is green. I love Summer. It’s my favorite season. It’s the time that I do most of my living. I feel healthier in…
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ACEO: Art Cards, Editions, and Originals. I Have ‘Em!
I’ve painted a dozen ACEO trading cards over the past couple of weeks and have listed them in my eBay store. ACEO stands for “Art Cards, Editions, and Originals”. These are tiny collectible paintings, 2.5″ x 3.5″ in size. Art collectors buy them and trade them and collect them in protective card binders, much like…
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My Originals Are Available for Purchase!
It’s the second week of April, and we are well into the season of Spring! My sugar snap peas, tulips, and daffodils are already coming up in the garden beds, and our indoor seedlings are looking good as well. It’s an exciting and uplifting time of the year when we start to see greenery once…
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Catching up to 2026!
Christmas 2025 has passed and we’re now three weeks into the new year. It’s been 9 months since I last typed up a blog post, so there’s much to catch up on. I completed quite a few paintings throughout the end of 2025 and made videos for them all. Since I just mentioned Christmas: Mine…
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My Old Friend, The Pencil
There was a time, for several years while I was a game illustrator, drawing was mostly all that I did, whether with pencils, pens, or even digitally. Since I started painting more consistently, I don’t seem to draw as often. I haven’t drawn anything in a long time, so as a change of pace, I…
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The Spring 2025 Art Events Kickoff
Three weeks ago, my wife and I attended the 2025 KUSD district-wide Student Art Show at the Kenosha Public Museum (Wisconsin, of course). That’s the Kenosha Unified School District. The show ran from March 15th to April 13th, 2025, at the Kenosha Public Museum. Last year our niece had a piece of art in the…
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“There’s A Place…”
“There’s place where I can go, when I feel low, when I feel blue….”. Those are lyrics from a song by The Beatles. It comes to my mind when I think about this painting I created a few weeks ago, because I gave the painting the same name as that Beatles song. “There’s A Place…”.…
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Saddling Up!
Hello! I am still here and I’m still making art, but sometimes I have to do other things. I started another acrylic painting back in July and I worked on it for a couple weeks and then ended up putting it down (a familiar story from me) and I didn’t pick back up on it…
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Sights of Summer
It’s time for another bimonthly installment of “what can I tell you about?” Well, I can tell you about some new artwork! Throughout the weeks of May and June, I worked on a couple of new acrylic paintings and made new time-lapse videos of these. The video shorts are shared below, but you can watch…
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