I couldn’t be bothered to photograph a new piece yesterday so you get this.
-JD
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I’m Lazy. Sue Me.
Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, masking tape, Painting on May 15, 2012 by jdhastingsAmbition With Cuts
Posted in Art, Collage, Toni Tiller with tags Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Toni Tiller on May 9, 2012 by jdhastingsI promised Toni I’d scan this and post it but then I didn’t. I supplied her the collage materials, she did the rest.
Tape and Tape and Tape and
Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags abstract, Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting on May 8, 2012 by jdhastingsSo on. I need to cut back on these. I ended up with a stack of 40 or 50 to scan last week, and it’s absurd.
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Maintaining
Posted in Art on May 1, 2012 by jdhastingsI spent the week making something to help me make art, but didn’t even get to the stage that that thing itself is ready to be photographed. So here’s a random image from my Flickr account.
Gray Scales
Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, basquiat, Collage, gray, masking tape, Painting on April 24, 2012 by jdhastingsMy legs ache. After a week of collecting masking tape without applying it to sheets of paper, I ended up sitting on the ground for 10 hours the last 2 days making sheets.
“Why did you sit on the floor if it was so uncomfortable?” you might ask. Because there was so much tape that in order to view it all to be able to select each piece to put on a sheet I had to surround myself with it.
I ended up producing a lot of brightly colored pieces, but am mostly taken with the limited palette gray scale pieces I’m showing today.
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Tape Parade
Posted in abstract, Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, Collage, colors, J. D. Hastings, masking tape, Painting, recycling on April 17, 2012 by jdhastingsMy experiments with masking tape have taken on a life of their own. While these started as a way to avoid wasting paint while making paintings to sew together, these have gradually become something of a focus in their own right.I’ve been posting them daily at my Tumblr site, and currently still have 47 queued up to post, with many more likely to added.
These have become exercises in color for me. There are obvious elements of form in the dots, checker boxes or occasional letters, but most of the composition remains linear. The main differences between different sheets come from the color schemes.
While I control these to an extent in deciding what to paint when, there’s also a lot of chance involved. I may be working on 3 different quilts requiring 3 completely different types of color and pattern, but the tape used for each of them winds up together. The results may be a fairly tight scheme (top) or something more unexpectedly diverse (2nd piece down).
Sometimes pieces take a week or two to fill out, leading to unexpected combinations, like the above, which has pieces of 21 different paintings in it, I think. It’s a very useful tool for trying out these new color combinations quickly, without much risk, and will help me plan more detailed works in the future.
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I Forgot to Name This
Posted in Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting on April 3, 2012 by jdhastings
“Dropcloth with Square 2012″ 48″ x 60″
This is big. To photograph it in a single frame I had to back up as far as was possible in my apartment leaving room so I could actually check to see that it did, actually fit in the frame. Getting something approximating even lighting was it’s own issue, and perfect focus? Well, just don’t click on the original.
This served as my dropcloth for months. I painted hundreds of smaller canvases and sheets of paper upon it. I used masking tape to get the effect of the squares, so there are 4 layers atop one another here.
Detail:
Apologize for the poor focus. My favorite parts are where snippets of pattern remain from leftover pieces of canvases painted on this. Remind me that when I’m working on my next dropcloth.
-JD
Pinch Hitting
Posted in Collage, Toni Tiller with tags Art, Collage, Toni Tiller on March 28, 2012 by jdhastingsToni is in the sky today, so I’m taking the opportunity to post this collage she made for a book I’m making of other peoples’ stuff.
I like this one a lot. It has an advanced sense of color and form relationships.
Masking Tape Remixes Redux
Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, masking tape, Painting, quilting, recycling on March 27, 2012 by jdhastings
Here are more quilted remixes of some recent pieces made from masking tape leftover from other paintings.
-JD
New Tape
Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, colors, masking tape, Painting, recycling on March 20, 2012 by jdhastingsI’m in between finishing projects now, so here’s some recent used masking tape from paintings.
-JD
Masking Tape Remixes
Posted in Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting, sewing on March 13, 2012 by jdhastingsI may have an opportunity to show some of my masking tape pieces in the future. This weekend, I decided to prop a few up with some quick editing to make them a little more display ready. These are the results:
One O’Clock In The Morning
Posted in Art on March 7, 2012 by jdhastingsI still exist, but sometimes I forget that. I’ve been lax posting lately, but finally have something and forgot to do it until late.
This is a book I made to test my book-making abilities. I originally saw this as a fun weekend project and stressed myself out as it turned into a month-long odyssey of constant effort. I do not consider the finished product to be an complete success. Because I was hurrying to finish it, and I am learning the overall process, most of the pages are tests of processes done as quick as possible. That they still took weeks doesn’t change that. But much was learned and will be applied to future work.
“One’ O’Clock In The Morning by Charles Baudelaire” 15″ x 11″ x 2″ multimedia
The book is basically just a transcription of the Baudelaire poem “One O’Clock In The Morning” (“A Une Heaure Du Matin”) over 10 pages with a front cover (seen above), back cover and spine. This will be difficult to show but I’ve tried to get photos of each page individually and in the book form.
Here is a shot of those 3 elements together:
Page 1:
“At last! Alone.”
Stenciled painted letters quilted together.
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Glimpse of Things to Come
Posted in Art, Painting with tags Art, J. D. Hastings on February 21, 2012 by jdhastingsI finally finished the Baudelaire related project I’ve been toiling at the last few weeks last night. I’m not quite ready to post the final images of it though, so here’s just an example of the type of crap I’ve put myself through with it.
This is a crappy stencil of one of the poem’s passages. It’s hard to read, but that’s not it’s only problem.
The other problem is that “Discontended” is misspelled. I made 10 of these stencils before realizing that. So I then had to create a new stencil just with the corrected spelling. I through in a few “redeems” because that was the hardest word to read throughout most of the stencils.
I ended up cutting everything apart and sewing the corrected pieces together, but now I have a pile of 20 misspelled “Discondendeds” that I have to find something to do with.
-JD
Trash
Posted in Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, Collage, paint on February 14, 2012 by jdhastingsI went on a bit of a painting binge last month. The result was a lot of used masking tape. Usually I use the tape to get simple line patterns like this:
But this time I also used the odds and ends to make patchwork stuff like the pieces below. I generally like the effect. These will end up collaged into some quilt some day.
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A Bunch of Thes
Posted in Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting on February 7, 2012 by jdhastingsStill very much work, still very much in progress.
These will not be paired with “Ends.”
-JD
Woven Watercolor Cross
Posted in Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting on January 31, 2012 by jdhastingsLast night instead of preparing art for today I ironed shirts. I have no regrets, but I also have nothing to post. I don’t know if I’ve ever posted this before.
“Woven Watercolor Cross” 2005 It’s like 30″ wide or something. Watercolor soaked through canvas, woven.
This is a woven piece made out of a dropcloth that I used a lot of watercolor on. I then flipped the dropcloth, where you could see where the watercolor soaked through. Toni hates me for this because it’s so light sensitive I won’t allow it out of my closet.
-JD
Work In Progress
Posted in Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, J. D. Hastings, quilting on January 24, 2012 by jdhastings
Finally getting these to where I can spell words. However, these are actually the only letters I have enough of to do so. This will be the background for a stencil to be added hopefully this weekend.
Clearly legibility isn’t this style’s strong suit, but I can live with it for a repeated phrase like this. If I ever do longer texts it’s something I’ll have to manage. Perfect for ransom notes though.
-JD
1000 Es
Posted in Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, Painting, quilting on January 17, 2012 by jdhastingsFirst things: I’ve started a Tumblr to post some of the pieces I make that will go into future quilts, and other progress shots.
This is a test of work I’ve been doing with stencils. I can use individual letter stencils to then create words and more.
Towards that end, here are 1000 Es that I created.
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Randy + Kate
Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting on January 10, 2012 by jdhastingsMy cousin and his bride, Kate, were married in December 2011. I promised them a good piece that night and used the full year allowed by good manners to finish it. The result was their Wedding/Christmas present this year.
Each piece is 24″ x 18″, and is a quit of paintings, collages and traditional fabric quilt. Pieces of each background are used to fill in the different planes of the form within it. This is what I was testing in this post.
Unfortunately, because I had to build the frames and stretch these in Los Angeles I wasn’t able to photograph them in my studio with my equipment. While my uncle and father are both good phtographers with solid equipment, we had a hell of a time getting worthwhile photos. Two of these are too blurry to show details of, and the two that are still have problems. So, while these are some of the most intricate pieces I created last year, I haven’t the documentation to prove it. Typical. Regardless, here they are:
-JD
Full Color Baudelaire
Posted in Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, J. D. Hastings, paintings on January 3, 2012 by jdhastingsOn average, the New Years weekend is probably my most productive of any time of the year. Decembers are usually spent finalizing Christmas gifts and rushing around trying to finish a variety of things. Then the Holidays come and I’m usually separated from the studio for about a week. By the time New Years comes, I am alone in my apartment without any near term responsibilities and all I want to do is play. Around this time last year I had just bought a new Sewing Machine and was experimenting with the form of quilt I played with all year.
This weekend may have been the most productive of my life. I started playing with stencils, and different colors of paint. Because these hues are ridiculously expensive, I started diluting them and creating my own mixtures. The result of these 2 things was a weekend of painting or preparing to paint (making stencils/mixing paint) near non-stop. I learned a lot in these 3 days, but may have to force myself to slow down to prevent burning myself out.
What I didn’t do much of was document what I was doing. So for now you’ll have to trust me and accept these 2 stencils of a passage from a poem by Baudelaire that I am working with to become accustomed with text:
(This one got cur off in the rush to scan it at midnight last night. Apologies.)
-JD
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