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Gender	Male
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Film/Video/Art
Location	Santa Clarita, California, United States
Introduction	Jonathan Payne is a freelance artist residing in Santa Clarita, California. His sculptures and paintings focus primarily on creature and character design . He has studied under Jordu Schell (Men In Black, Edward Scissorhands, Avatar), concept sculptor Simon Lee and fine art sculptor John Brown. He prefers to sculpt in oil, polymer and WED clays. Recently he has become consumed with creating an original line of tumorous balls of flesh known as the Fleshlettes. In addition to his macabre "babies" he also enjoys composing fine art sculptures depicting both wildlife and the human form. Jonathan is available for hire as a freelance artist and for individual commissions.
Interests	Image making in all of its various forms
Favorite Movies	There Will Be Blood, No Country, Coraline, Team America, Wall-E, Monsters Inc., Sleeping Beauty, Science of Sleep, The Fountain, MST3K!, Collateral, Gerry, Elephant, Lost in Translation, Spike Jones/Michel Gondry/Chris Cunningham music videos, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie, Shower, La Jaute (spelling?), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spinal Tap, American Beauty, Unbreakable, Alien/Aliens, Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas, Heat, Star Wars, Signs in spite of it's glaring plot holes, the sixth sense is still awesome, Sleepy Hollow, Superman the movie, commando, Superman Returns (suck it haters), The Dark Knight, Road to Perdition.
Favorite Music	Arvo Part, Beck, Bjork, Aphex Twin, Coldplay, Davie Bowie, Danny Elfman, moby (yeah I admit it), Garbage is pretty cool, Filter is fun, phoo fighters are phabulous, Trey Paker and Matt Stone's team america soundtrack, John Williams, Howard Shore, Hans Zimmer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a bit of Beastie Boys, a wisp of weezer, and I even had ABBA ingrained into my head against my will during my youth.