Jon Farhat is an Academy Award® and BAFTA® nominated Visual Effects Supervisor, Director and Conceptual Illustrator, working in the motion picture industry for over 30 years. Farhat has supervised and designed stunning visual sequences in films such as Book Of Eli, Wanted, Nutty Professor, Dead Man, The Interpreter and the Mask. His vast range of style centers around a love for characters and states of 'being'.
"East Reticulum" - Second in a triptych portrait series of Bob Lazar. Geometry and paint concept - Circa 1942, East Reticulum City on the Planet Zeta Reticuli 2. Concept rendering for "Bob Lazar and the Melon Heads" - animated short." This NFT drop follows the massive popularity of the original poster signed by the artist and Bob Lazar himself.
"Lady Jane of Maasai considers the magnitude of the setting sun". Brush stylus painting on a tablet. 6000x4000px. Odalisque, tended to by the Eunich is one of the most popular scenes of western 18th century pulp. The language is erotic and would work using sacks of flour. The subject draped in linens and looking over her shoulder while an attendant provides music and comfort. It was a body language that would be repeated as popular art for an entire century and beyond.
"Americana" - Oil on board 30"x40" Beautiful paintings of the grotesque as delicate.
"Matango & The Mushroom People" - Stylus Painting series Inspired by "Matango" マタンゴ the 1963 Japanese horror film directed by Ishirō Honda. In the story, a professor, movie star, skipper, sailor, a millionaire, a writer and a student take a short cruise into a storm and find themselves shipwrecked on an island together where they all turn into the mushrooms they were forced to eat.
"The Pooka" - Stylus Painting. The Pooka is a goblin fairy from Celtic folklore of Ireland. A Pooka can take the form of any animal or human, but most often seen as a horse or bull.
"Wilshire Blvd. 2000" - Acrylic on Canvas 60" x 24".
"Dante's Los Angeles" - Matte Painting concept
"Puxxles" - Object-Vector Puzzle Simulation This image was created by a program that gradually built a puzzle using 2,457 solid toned pieces. The routine constructs the pieces and assembles the light and dark puzzle pieces along a natural curve.
