About Jonathan Luczycki

Jonathan Edward Luczycki (Lou-ziss-key) was born in Springfield,OR in 1980 and was drawing before the age of three years old. He started selling sketches of Disney characters while on recess in grade school for a quarter each, which happened to be the exact cost for chocolate milk in the cafeteria, a talented business man from the start. In high school and college he was the head illustrator for a campus newspaper, winning the states best cartoonist award two years in a row. Although he was granted a full scholarship to attend Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland,OR, he moved to Laguna Beach in 2002 to attend Laguna College of Art & Design, one of the leading art schools that teach the classical ways of painting the figure and teaching the importance of working from life. After receiving a degree in illustration with a minor in fine arts, Jonathan started studying the early works of renowned landscape painters Edgar Payne, William Wendt, and John Carlson. Jonathan quickly fell in love with painting outdoors, racing to capture and record the moving light on canvas like those artists before him.