
Visual Voice
by Jonathan Botts
Commissioned Work & Design

A logo commissioned by an area high school's principal to be worn on uniforms and merchandise.

In this logo our graduate steps over or stamps this prison which signifies the larger prison industrial complex. The wording that borders the image was derived from conversations with the client whose objective was to have a powerful but positive message in response to the mass imprisonment of minorities. Education and love for self and community was the overarching solution offered.

One of the logo designs I submitted for consideration for the historic Metropolitan A.M.E. Church's 175th anniversary.The design incorporates the church's Episcopacy Window and 3 lancet arch windows beneath with the numbers 1 7 5.

Of three logo designs I created, This is the logo design that was ultimately chosen as the Daniel Alexander Payne Community Development Corporation's official logo.

I was given the opportunity to create a design that captured the spirit of the U.N.'s Year of the African Diaspora. I created 3 figures that danced in celebration and joyousness because I find that positivity transcendent in our people. The flags that compose the figures are the flags of nations with the largest numbers of African descendant peoples.

This design for the Daniel Alexander Payne CDC was chosen as an alternate design to the main logo for larger displays such as posters and ads.

This is 1/3 pictures of the mural I co-created with fellow artist and friend Danielle Gant. Danielle painted the beautiful animals in the center of this image (hippo, croc and macaw) while I painted the landscape and monkey above.

2/3 photos from the mural I co-created with friend Danielle Gant. Here you can see the column I transformed into a tree with children interacting. You also see, to the left, more the tropical landscape I painted.

This is 2/3 photos of the mural I co-created in downtown Richmond, VA with fellow artist and friend Danielle Gant. Danielle did remarkable work in painting the hippo while I painted the cheetah and landscape.

This illustration was created for a Mother's Day card and though not a portraiture, it was created in memory of my maternal grandmother and her two sisters.

This is the final draft of Metropolitan A.M.E. Church's 175th anniversary logo. The church's history is in large part intrinsic to the history of African Americans, especially those of the nation's capitol. I wanted the logo to express the church's history and also its modernity and future.

Like "View from the Bottom", this representation of a stone jetty in Chesapeake Beach, MD incorporates texture rubs from surfaces such as wood, asphalt and steel mesh throughout the composition.

An early piece designed with Adobe Photoshop, it was made using scanned texture rubs to create realistic textures on stone, water, concrete, etc. The scene is the view is from a canal boat on Kanawha Canal in the Shockhoe Bottom Neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia hence the title.

This graphic illustration represents the view from a Virginia Beach Hotel Balcony at dawn. In the distance a cargo ship transports cargo from Norfolk docks.

Graphic Illustration A winter's sunset through woods in Stafford County, Virginia.