Win Jones is a watercolor

Watercolor painting

Watercolor or watercolour , also aquarelle from French, is a painting method. A watercolor is the medium or the resulting artwork in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-soluble vehicle...

 painter

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 based in St. Augustine

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, Florida

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, and Washington Island

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, Wisconsin

Wisconsin

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. Several galleries

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 in the Midwest and Florida show his work. He has exhibited his work across the United States

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 and received many awards for his unique and haunting style.

During his time as a student

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 at Lawrence University

Lawrence University

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, Jones worked as a cartoonist for The Lawrentian

The Lawrentian

The Lawrentian is the campus newspaper of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. The paper, first published in 1884, comes out once per week while school is in session...

, the student newspaper

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. Jones' single-panel cartoons

Comic strip

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 covered mostly American

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 college

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 life of the 1950s. The Lawrentian eventually published a compilation of Jones' cartoons as a pamphlet titled Orticulation

Orticulation

Orticulation is a pamphlet collecting the single-panel cartoons by Win Jones from The Lawrentian, the student newspaper of Lawrence University. Orticulation features cartoons from 1950 through 1954. Most of the cartoons cover college life in the United States during the 1950s, though a couple...

. The black-line drawings and simple shading in Jones' cartoons greatly differ from the soft colors, floating figures, and hazy surrealism

Surrealism

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of his watercolors.