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Abstraction and Representation

Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, figurative, mixed media, monotype, oil painting, Painting, portrait, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , , on September 9, 2010 by Tom Bennett

This week I’m posting 3 more or less unrelated pieces. I started the portrait last week with oil paint and a black oil medium with turpentine washes on a composite board treated with a gypsum-based hide-glue gesso, hand-made decades ago by my father. It’s a work in progress I’m posting as a documentation of a first “state”.
I’m including an abstract monotype that I printed with two separate images on the same paper, creating a layered print which provides a subtle depth that does not appear easy to find with a normal one-pass.
The other monotype is a loose portrait of the newest family member in fellow blogger Toni Tiller’s life.

Tom Bennett

Work in Progress: Tone

WIP: Wiltonian in Progress, oil on board, 24″ x 24″

Indian Summer

Indian Summer, monotype, 20′ x 16″

Lala

Lala, monotype, 16″ x 20″

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No Art, A Dog, And Advice Needed

Posted in Toni Tiller with tags , , , , on September 8, 2010 by Toni Tiller

Whenever I talk about this blog to people I always describe it as mostly a process based blog, where we all spend time talking about how and why we do things, as well as posting the end results, for better or worse. Once in awhile part of the process seems to be producing, well, nothing.

I could have gone into the archives for something to post, but instead I’m just going to be honest and say I just didn’t have time this week. There have been summer flu’s to indulge, guests to entertain, and in the biggest news of my week, a new member to the family. Everyone, meet LaLa, my new French Bulldog.

She’s been pretty much dominating my week with getting adjusted and doing that house training stuff (very important business). Don’t worry, I’m not going to lose my mind and start posting a thousand pictures of my dog in lieu of art, just this one, to introduce her and say hello.

Moving on, I have a small quandary. I got into an art swap situation with a twitter friend where we challenged each other to use certain materials. In this case he ended up with glitter and I took macaroni, which at first I thought I would do something sculptural with, but now I am not so sure. I started wondering if it would be possible to cook the pasta, pulp it down in the food processor, and roll it out into sheets that I could then dehydrate in the oven and either print or paint on. Does anyone have any experience with this? Do I need to add some sort of other binder? Should I just think of something else? Feel free to throw out ideas because I am a little stumped.

Naturally, in keeping with our process based theme, whatever I decide to go forward with I will document and show the results of.

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Six Self Portraits

Posted in Art, J. D. Hastings, Photography with tags , , , , , , on September 7, 2010 by jdhastings

This weekend I experimented with Bad Photographic Printing techniques. I’m calling the series of stuff like this “Bad Photos.” Towards that end I had issues photographing these in the reflective frames, so this picture isn’t great.

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Here are the originals:

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Self portrait005

Self portrait011

The other 3 and some discussion are after the jump.
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New Painting: Five Finger Float

Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , on September 4, 2010 by ssstephg

At least, that’s the current thought for a title.  Any other suggestions?  I’ll consider any offered.

48 x 24 x 2 inches deep
acrylic on pine-cradled masonite panel with collaged canvas and masonite shapes

The attached masonite shapes are the five finger-looking things in the circle there. The masonite is about 1/4 of an inch thick. This one will probably be included in my October show. I seem to have a few different veins of work open and active at the moment and this piece runs through them all. I’m hoping that once the paintings are all finished and laid out for the final decision of who goes to the party and who stays at home rejected and bored, this painting will form a bridge that allows me to include work from both open veins. we’ll see what happens.

detail photos after the jump! Read more »

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Saturday Morning Cartoons: You Can Become a Pants Man, Too!

Posted in Miscellaneous, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , on September 4, 2010 by ssstephg

How “bout a little late morning toilet fun courtesy of our wonderfully loopy Japanese friends across the globe?

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Come to The Great Holyoke Block Party!

Posted in events, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , , on September 4, 2010 by ssstephg

More food! More music! More art! than you can shake a stick at!

KPAO! will be setting up a table and drawing on the sidewalk at the block party. We’re also bringing the chalk character boards–FUN! Come join us! There will be live music all day!  My friends’ band, Span of Sunshine, is playing in the morning–11 am! I know that sounds early, but Span will wake you up and make you glad you came!  There’s even going to be a Klezmer band!!!

Lots of fun stuff going on all day.

Veteran’s Park

from 11 am to 8 pm
tomorrow–Sunday September 5

See you there!

-StephG

p.s. Did you know, the block party poster was designed by KPAO! this year?  It’s a WABU – Bodart collaboration!  Innit lovely?  I think it’s beautiful!

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Arch Grounds Revitalization Project

Posted in 1904 World's Fair, Art, awareness, awesome, Jason Gray with tags , , on September 3, 2010 by Jason Gray

I’m not sure what kind of national press this has received so far, but in St. Louis, the project to revitalize the St. Louis Arch’s grounds for its fiftieth anniversary has been a huge topic of conversation. It will certainly be an undertaking of massive scale for the region, with cost estimated at upwards of 500 million dollars (for perspective, that is about what it cost to build Millennium Park in Chicago). The problem with the park grounds as it stands is mostly that an interstate slices it off from the rest of the city making access complicated. It appears that all of the teams are looking to emphasize the natural landscape, and at first, I felt that this was a bit of a disappointment, given that St. Louis already has one of the country’s largest and best landscaped public parks with Forest Park (where many cultural institutions, like the art museum, zoo, history museum, and science center, are located and are all free to enter). In my mind, I had hoped that the wonderful Citygarden concept would be extended to the riverfront. However, I can appreciate what adding another beautiful green space will do to the city. Hopefully, St. Louisans will take the cue and spur a litany of green design around town, which would really center the city as a hub of the ecologically based movement and bolster the local economy. Whatever the result, there is a lot of change in the air in St. Louis, and I am very happy for the opportunity to be experiencing it firsthand.

Here are a few pics from the five finalists in the associated design competition, followed by a video from my favorite team. The winner will be announced on September 24, 2010.

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What do I have in common with Derry, Ireland?

Posted in Art, Jason Gray with tags , , , , on September 3, 2010 by Jason Gray

Okay, so this post is going to be a total mash-up, and will probably come across completely convoluted. Just warning you; I am still pitching my current series to galleries, working a great deal, and not really painting/etc., so I am going to attempt to at least make this a little interesting, despite the utter lack of any “real” art to present.

Concluding this weekend, I have been photographing staff portraits at a neurologist’s practice, and attempting to concentrate on drawing each person’s personality out of every shot, which has been a rewarding process. The doctor is retiring and this is her going away present to her team. Anyway, here are two shots from the series:


(Double-click on the second pics to see more.)

Derry, Ireland after the jump–> Read more »

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First Thursday Art Walk

Posted in Art on September 2, 2010 by jdhastings

Its that time of month again, and yes I’m cranky. I have a new phone that actually posts decent photos and makes hilarious autocorrect mistakes. You can follow the fun at http://twitter.com/j_d_hastings.

-JD

If you want to know what the photo has to do with anything, then you just. Don’t. Get. It.

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Rock Haul of Fem

Posted in Art, art on paper, figurative, monotype, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , on September 1, 2010 by Tom Bennett

Wow, that was a baaaad pun. Ok, this week we have more successful and not-so-successful experiments with the search for monotype interpretations of Tiller’s dreams. These are takes on her dream of moving rocks.
Think of this as a sort of a Dr Dre sampling of Zeppelin. Only maybe not as entertaining.
Tom Bennett

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Dream Study: Moving Rocks 1, monotype, 20″ x 16″

dream: rock moving 2

Dream Study: Moving Rocks 2, monotype, 12″ x 18″

dream: rock moving 3

Dream Study: Moving Rocks 3, monotype, 12″ x 18″

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More Failures Than Success

Posted in abstract, Art, monotype, printmaking, Toni Tiller with tags , , , on September 1, 2010 by Toni Tiller

This isn’t working, and I haven’t figured out why. I have my suspicions, but feel free to tell me what you think. The good news is that I can just make more or I can go and work back into this by printing over it again. I’m stuck in bed all day with this summer bug, so I have all the time in the world to obsess.

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