I was inspired to try using the preview/detail photos by Steph to make a monster digital collage. The colors are a bit on the dark side, but I think it works. One of the drawings I used is an interior a tavern. I also included a sketch of some beer steins, just to be silly. (I didn’t get Steph’s permission to use her photos; I hope she doesn’t sue me.)
FrankensssStein!, digital collage, 14″ x 10.5″ 2011
happy birthday Steph!
Archive for February, 2011
frankenssssteph!
Posted in Art, Collage, Daniel Allyn Lee, digital, Illustration with tags Collage, digital, monster, steph on February 28, 2011 by Daniel Allyn LeeWill You Build Me A Frankenstein With Your Mind?
Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags abstract, Art, Painting, process, sculpture, steph gerolimatos, stephg, texture, wip, Work in Progress on February 26, 2011 by ssstephgC’mon, it’ll be a good creative exercise. Try piecing all these images together and see what you come up with. They’re a bunch of closeup shots of art I’m working on right now.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Animated Paint
Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, Artist, fun, Holton Rower, paint, Painting, poured, process, sculpture on February 26, 2011 by ssstephgAs so often is the case, today’s cartoon is not a cartoon. It is, however, art and eye-candy! This video of artist Holton Rower’s process has been circulating around the interwebs for a while now. If you haven’t seen it, take a look. If you’ve watched it but haven’t checked out his website, get clicking! He has a number of interesting projects to see there.
Friday Night Music Video
Posted in Jason Gray on February 25, 2011 by Jason GrayI have been shooting a lot of black and white film, developing, and printing it by hand. Soon, I’ll have a bit to share; enjoying the process.
Stage 2 of a Figurative to Abstract Painting
Posted in abstract, Art, figurative, homage, male nude, oil painting, Painting, technique, Tom Bennett, Work in Progress with tags abstract, Art, caravaggio, homage, oil on panel, oil painting, Painting, St Peter, Tom Bennett on February 24, 2011 by Tom BennettThis week I’m posting a current stage in an ongoing metamorphosis of a painting influenced by Caravaggio’s Crucifixion of St Peter. I’m trying to find the place where the abstract marks camoflage any overt figurative narrative. I’ve been working here with oil, oil stick; a 3 part medium made of damar, turps and stand oil; and black oil medium, made with litharge. The black oil creates a really beautiful, deep and strong paint film and glaze.
I’ll be the first to admit this is a mediocre photo.
Pete’s Going Away, oil on panel, 40″ x 30″
Detail
Here’s the original Caravaggio, so he doesn’t sue me:
Testing…1…2…3…
Posted in Art, technique, Toni Tiller with tags Art, Experiment, glue, materials, test, Toni Tiller on February 23, 2011 by Toni TillerMy attitude seems to slowly be turning around about this whole making art thing, I still don’t have any to show today but at least I started working on something again. Lots of good advice was offered for getting out of this rut and it is all slowly starting to shift things around. After being re-reminded that a great place to begin is with playing with the materials, and after spending some time on one of my favorite website resources, Thistothat.com, I started doing some glue tests. I’ve never tried to glue paper to fabric, and ultimately I was looking for something the would adhere well, remain flexible, and not wrinkle the paper. Two of the websites major recommendations were unavailable, one being from Japan (fair enough), and the other was the one and only product completely sold out at Home Depot (really?) so some blind substitution guesses were made.
First up, a German glue called Uhu Twist and Stick. It was a liquid so my hopes were limited, but it *said* it could glue paper to fabric and it got good online reviews so…complete failure. Wrinkles and curling. Next.
Same company, but in a stick!
Clean adhesion, no wrinkles, not the strongest bond in the world, but definitely a contender. How about so good old fashioned rubber cement?
On the plus side, there was good adhesion and no wrinkling, on the other hand it’s messy and there is some color rubbing in the center that I suspect is related to the alcohol (?) in the glue. I also tied some gold size just because I had it lying around but it gave more or less the same results as the first glue. In the end it seems some combination of the stick and the rubber cement are the way to go. This was also my first evening going back upstairs to the studio instead of trying to work in my very comfy, but very small bedroom, so my favorite part of this process was being able to get up and not clean anything up.
Random Novelty
Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, bookbinding, quilting on February 22, 2011 by jdhastingsThis weekend I taught myself how to bind a book and the not hard to learn practice of Applique. Both resulted in completely random works of art that I have no clue what to do with.
First, the book:
This is the piece I’m more proud of, though I made it second. I sewed together some paintings for the cover and left 32 “pages” of canvas blank inside. I like it because it looks like the Necronomicon. I wish I had some good incantations to write inside it. I might actually make one of these illustrating an HP Lovecraft story in the future.
Here’s a pickture of the inside:
The circles aren’t actually attached, I left everything blank but wanted the photo to pretend something was there. The canvas is primed with acrylic medium, so can be used anyway canvas can be used- except for further quilting. The binding prevents that. My ultimate goal is to bind books of thematically linked quilts. We’ll see how that goes.
Here it is open:
My other foray, into Applique, was largely done while drinking during the NBA all star game. That might explain how it turned into a very un-ironic portrait of Monta Ellis.
This thing looks like something a 10 year old kid would hang in his room after his aunt made it for him. I woke up the next day half amused and half horrified by it. The applique worked well enough, but WTF?
-JD
a couple of collages
Posted in Art, Collage, Daniel Allyn Lee, digital, Drawing with tags Art, Collage, digital, monster on February 21, 2011 by Daniel Allyn Lee
Guided Tour, digital collage, 14″ x 11″, 2011
Hidden Niche, digital collage, 11″x 14.5″, 2011
I think, I’m getting closer to what I want to do and where I want to be with these. Next, I want to use this particular approach in a painting, a paper collage, and maybe a quilt and see where it goes from there.
Freshly Painted
Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, details, paint, process, steph gerolimatos, stephg, studio, stuff and things on February 19, 2011 by ssstephg
I may have finished something. Maybe. It’s not dry though so I can’t show you yet. I’m working on a few paintings that are functioning as sketches to try and find footing in a newish direction. The more I think about it and the longer I work on this new stuff, the more I find direct and not so direct references to the rest of my work. These links are starting to make more sense to me now which makes me feel more confident in what I’m doing. That translates to me feeling more excited about working. I like this part of the process–the part where I’m still figuring out what the big problems I’m setting up for myself are and what possible ways there are to solve them. As fun as this is for me, I realize it’s prolly pretty damn boring for you. Images are generally the most interesting part of a personal art blog. With that in mind, I’m posting a bunch of photos of details of my studio for you to look at. These are things I look at everyday that stay with me because there is something about them I find interesting.
I’ve had the old paint sign above since the mid nineties when I worked in a gem of an old art store that also sold paint and wallpaper. The store was located in a historic old theater building in Western Massachusetts. The art store has since moved and the theater has been restored. It took years for the restoration to gain enough support to get underway. When I worked there, Hilary Clinton came and gave a speech as part of her campaign to preserve America’s historic architectural treasures. I should dig out the funny photo of me and the rest of the staff posing with Hilary. That was a fun day! In person, Hilary was friendly, engaging, very pretty and VERY short. I remember thinking she was a great public speaker–better than her husband.
an eyeball I made
the beginnings of some 3D art
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Friday Night Music Videos
Posted in Jason Gray on February 19, 2011 by Jason GraySome more music from the Gateway City…
In the Pines
Posted in Art, art on paper, contingent art, figurative, monotype, narrative art, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, bluegrass, figure, lead belly, monotype, music, narrative art, printmaking, Tom Bennett on February 17, 2011 by Tom BennettI was listening the other night to the classic old folk song “In the Pines”, or “Black Girl” sung by the blues great Lead Belly. Here are 3 monotypes that were influenced by it.
Listen to the audio I posted at the bottom, its beautiful.
9″ x 12″
12″ x 9″
12″ x 9″
From The Archives
Posted in Art, Toni Tiller, video with tags Art, dream, Toni Tiller, video on February 16, 2011 by Toni TillerI’m in full hibernation mode, all I do most days is shovel shit tons of snow and break up ice so the last thing I feel like doing at the end of the day is to make art. My first thought was to steal JD’s idea and make a little animated movie of one of the dozens of ridiculous fights we have in our Facebook art discussion group, but the program thwarted that idea by only allowing me two actors when at least 12 would be needed. In the process I found this old video I made before I had the dream blog and was still exploring how to present them. In the mean time, you’ll have to excuse me while I go back to bed and hope it’s spring when I next wake.
For some reason it won’t embed so if you want you can watch it here.
Office Supply Art
Posted in Art on February 15, 2011 by jdhastingsThese are all things I’ve made while bored at work over the years. No they aren’t great, but that wasn’t really the point.
Office Supply John Coltrane
Bamboo. I imitated the classical brush technique with the side of a pencil and pen. I think the text says “Nothing Is” in Chinese but my office mate may have said “JD Sucks” instead.
This served as my notepad for about a week’s worth of phone calls.
Illustration of time. Obviously
-JD
Happy Valentines Day
Posted in Art, Daniel Allyn Lee, Drawing, Illustration with tags monsters on February 14, 2011 by Daniel Allyn LeeThis drawing turned out a little weird.
I meant to post this earlier, but I had to go to the doctor. Its either two monsters facing off or about to start making out.
Happy Valentines day, y’all!
Old Ruling Class 2
Posted in Art, figurative, nude, oil painting, Painting, Tom Bennett with tags Art, figure, heavy nude, nude, oil on board, Painting, Tom Bennett on February 10, 2011 by Tom Bennett
Tom Bennett, Old ruling Class 2, oil on board, 24″ x 18″
This is another in a short series of figures with an ambiguous conceptual theme. The classic image of the fleshy nude may symbolize the emotional and cultural strength and stamina of the female through history.
T.B.
W.I.P. #2 And White Square Project
Posted in Art, digital, Links, monotype, printmaking, Toni Tiller with tags Art, landscape, Links, monotype, printmaking, Toni Tiller, tumblr on February 9, 2011 by Toni TillerI am working the same source image as last week and am about half way through this one, two runs through the press so far, and at least one more to go. I have realized recently that one of the real benefits in using fabric is that it can be soaked and re-soaked as many times needed without breaking down, an option paper doesn’t offer. What I am learning is that because fabric is more selective about what ink it wants to grab multiple printings gives me an opportunity to build values slowly and gives me more decision making options. So far I like where this one is going, hopefully I won’t fuck it up.
In other news I was contacted the other day by the friendly people over at The White Square Project, a fun participatory Tumblr blog. Every two weeks they give people a new theme and a 250 x 250 pixel square to fill. The current theme is color, and this was my contribution*:
I chose a digital piece, but they accept all mediums, so come on over and play!
*confession – I wish i knew how to quilt like JD because I would totally quilt the hell out of this pattern.
Spheres
Posted in abstract, Art, Painting with tags Art, conceptual, J. D. Hastings, quilting on February 8, 2011 by jdhastingsGetting this image has been a challenge. Ideally, I’d restretch it and photograph it in better conditions.
The intent of this piece is a bit of a pun. I’ve been thinking about the difference between ‘pure formalism” v. “Conceptual art,” for instance. These have been topics on twitter lately, and while I have a lot to say this is an early stab at it in the form of what I’m jokingly calling ‘Conceptual Formalism.” The “Spheres” in the title are actually the formula to determine the volume of a sphere (4/3 pi r^30) visible, but not overpowering on the face of the quilt. Spheres are one of the fundamental ‘forms” you must know if you are going to represent things in 3 dimnsions. As a result, you have the formal object being represented by one of it’s definitions, a la Joseph Kosuth. yadda yadda, it’s mainly a pun.
“Spheres” 26″ x 40″, Acrylic and Collage on Canvas, Quilted. (I may restretch this to 24″ x 40″)
The process of photographing has been problematic. I didn’t properly fit the frame, meaning I had to split open part of it, where I’ll tighten it up again later. The piece is busy enough. It didn’t need more ripples and lighting problems. The result of all this is I’m not too happy with what you see, though the quilt itself is fine by me. Though still busy.
I’m learning the need to really start planning these things ahead of time.
I don’t know if this is far too much or good in part because of that.
-jd
What I Mean Is, Green WIPs Are Better Than No WIPs At All
Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, green, i'm sick and everything hurts, Painting, sculpture, steph gerolimatos, stephg, wip, Work in Progress on February 5, 2011 by ssstephg
As for not so sharp photos, well, you be the judge of that. I’m still working on this one. It’s sort of a sketch to figure some things out. It measures 17 x 10 x 3/4 inches and is acrylic and stuff on wood. Figuring is proving difficult this week though. I’m sick and my everything hurts. Not to mention, I have one of those barking goose coughs now. It’s distracting.
Honk Honk!
-Steph
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Sol by OOIOO
Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags and i'm always late for the bus, animation, cartoon, don't let go of the rope!, i like watching feet, morning, music, OOIOO, Saturday, sol, stephg, video on February 5, 2011 by ssstephgMore OOIOO love! This one this time because the girl with the rope is a metaphor for my existence.
O&ILoveU2,
-Steph
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