Welcome to the DJN Studios Archival Gallery
Though having worked with a wide variety of media with his posters, storyboards, and concept illustrations, Negrón favored his oil paints. Feeling as if only oils obtained the permanency and breath of scope to encompass his film experience, Negron believed that painting with oils was a satisfactory conclusion to his artwork. Below are a select amount of his many subjects.
Christian Works
"As I continued to create and tried to decipher the mystical side of art so as to learn how to give my work more "life", I begin to analyze the work of the old masters. The fact that their work always looks interesting and elicits emotional reaction or presents itself as just plain beautiful, even when viewed from different perspectives - upside down, out-of-focus or reduced in size to a postage stamp, really intrigues me. The shapes and patterns of the realist as well as the impressionist and the modern artists has this same characteristic in common. I gravitated to the impressionist because of my admiration of their control of color and value to retain those most important shapes and patterns. It's like watching a trapeze artist do a stunt defying the laws of gravity - it is breathtaking. I decided to focus on this phenomena to understand clearly what I was dealing with and how I could better "entertain" the viewer through my art work. Every new painting presents a new challenge - a new "puzzle" to be solved. It's a never ending process of learning."
Turn of the Century
"I never think of my paintings as representing reality but as what they really are - abstract marks on a canvas. I am always amazed as to how these marks, shapes, and colors can evoke emotion in the observer. It is strange the way they illicit mood, interest, passion, pleasure, sympathy, excitement, sadness and much more - all on their own."
"My gallery work is probably closer to the impressionists then any other school. I like the magic of this method of painting because by some mystery, the work starts to feel like it's creating itself. I mean, when I begin to see things in the painting that I did nor foresaw or intended to paint and I begin to enjoy it myself - I sign it. In my work, I think the viewer is the one who puts the finishing touches to my work. Many of the comments I hear about my work are things people see in them which I hadn't seen myself. They explain and describe my paintings to me as if they had painted them. I think that was what most impressionist painters of the past were trying to achieve - a personal and individual experience for every viewer."
