we moved out of our old place, have yet to move into our new place so i am a bit homeless and therefore have no art update. this is an experiment as to how I maintain my identity as an artist while I navigate the changes in life. I will physically get to the studio this week, however, getting my head/heart into the studio practice may present some interesting challenges. in the meantime i’ll enjoy the springtime weather
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hello new chapter
Posted in Art, current events, laelia e. mitchell, news with tags Art, laelia e. mitchell, studio practice on April 30, 2012 by laelia e. mitchellInflated Paint
Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags abstract, Art, materials, paint, Painting, process, steph gerolimatos, wip on April 28, 2012 by ssstephg
Today, I give you a handful of blown up details of a work in progress.
And that’s all.
-Steph
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Posted in Art, art on paper, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, expressionist nude, figure, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil into monotype, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett on April 26, 2012 by Tom Bennett The title is a reference to the non-committal online connections that pass for friendship bonds today. The whole concept is silly and sad. That said, please don’t un-follow me or I’ll cut my ear off.
With the paint into monotype I’m continuing to explore a guarded, nuanced and neutral palette with some higher hues thrown in. Here the cool grays got too blue and of course the yellow blares out a bit. The figure may have pronounced itself rather more than was intended, but I’m ok with it.
Unfollow, 2008-2012, oil into monotype on paper, 18″ x 12″
New Toys!
Posted in Art, Toni Tiller with tags Art, cutting tools, fiskars, product review, Toni Tiller, x-acto on April 25, 2012 by Toni TillerI love my scalpel, it kicks X-acto knife ass, but I also have to admit it’s heavy, and has an awkward handle that requires a lot of medical tape wrapped around it to be comfortable for long usage. Even then I have been known to put so much pressure on my index finger that I lose feeling in it for days. I can deal but I’m still going to keep my options open for something better.
I picked up two items, the first is this odd looking thing, and the second was this, which is supposed to be designed for use on curves.
The first one is brilliant. I swapped out the X-acto blade that came with it and fitted one of my scalpel blades instead and it was wonderful.
It sits over your finger and looks like it would be uncomfortable, but outside of getting used to having to put it on and take it off, instead of just picking it up and putting it down like a regular blade or pair of scissors, it was remarkable how quickly I adapted to it. Cutting became more like drawing, and there was an instant difference in the quality of the cuts on curves. Curves are always the biggest challenge because stylus style cutters tend to get hung up at the apex, leaving awkward marks.
I’m not really surprised that I love this, I grew up on Fiskars and they still make my favorite scissors, and just a heads up to JD, they also do a version of this finger led style for rotary cutters.
Now the other one I picked up I really wanted to like, and I actually spent a few weeks trying to track down the right item based on seeing it used in a video. At last success was found in the craft store, and the X-ACTO X3253 Designer Series Craft Swivel Knife (in pink!) was purchased.
It looked good on paper, but was awful with paper.
The grip is fat and clunky, and that blade is so short that you almost can’t see it over the flared flange of the handle. I had to get my nose right down to the paper to see what was going on. In addition to that problem there is a heavy drag to the blade and it tends to pull off in directions you did not intend for it to go, so it completely lacked the precision it was supposed to deliver. It seems silly to comment on anything other than the function but I was also bothered by the lurid shade of pink, something between that and the shape of it kind of made me feel like I was drawing with an ugly pink butt plug.
Yeah I said it.
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.
More after the jump. Read more »
moving this week
Posted in Art, internet, laelia e. mitchell, landscape, Photography with tags Art, digital, laelia e. mitchell, Photography on April 23, 2012 by laelia e. mitchellsoon art making will return
taken with everyone’s favorite new “enemy” …. instagram
Art On Trial
Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags abstract, Art, Painting, process, steph gerolimatos, Stephanie Gerolimatos, stephg, texture, trial, wip on April 21, 2012 by ssstephg
acrylic on panel
24 x 24 inches
Well, I flipped it upside down, and it might be done. The jury is still out. Do I want to leave it soft and chewy? Or do I want a crunchy cookie? Depends on the mood, and I am nothing if not moody. Whaddaya think, Fini or get back to work?
In a timeout,
-Steph
Basketball and Sex
Posted in Art, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, Tom Bennett, Work in Progress, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, basketball, expressionist nude, figure, jeremy lin, monotype, new york knicks, nude, oil painting, Painting, paper, printmaking, Tom Bennett, wip on April 19, 2012 by Tom BennettJeremy Lin is the the cinderella story of the NBA this season. He was a no-one who came out of Harvard and was on the bench for the New York Knicks when he was chosen to come on the court where he went on an electric run to rejuvenate the team. I had made a couple of monotypes dedicated to him but both were unsuccessful, poorly formulated attempts. Here I took one of these flat prints and I’ve begun the process of reforming a composition with a slightly sexualized nude, utilizing bits and pieces of the underlying marks and forms. It is only fitting, I think, to honor this injured basketball player, who has had surgery on his leg and will be out the rest of the season. Baseball and sex are the usual analogies, but I’m throwing up a three pointer and lets see if it misses. This is a work in progress.
Another Imaginary Landscape
Posted in Art, Collage, landscape, Toni Tiller with tags abstract, Art, Collage, landscape, Toni Tiller on April 18, 2012 by Toni TillerThe picture is crappy, and small, I took it with my phone. It was a long night and I don’t have much to say, so let’s just get to it ok?
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.
I’ll post several more below. Read more »
High Five Acrylic Update
Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags abstract, acrylic, Art, Painting, stages, steph gerolimatos, stephg, texture, Work in Progress on April 14, 2012 by ssstephg
acrylic on panel
24 x 24 inches
Here’s the most current pic I have of this work in progress. It’s the same one I posted last week. And below is an earlier stage.
Alrighty, I have to return some video tapes. TTYL.
-Steph
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Dolls & Dismemberment aka Creeper Barbie
Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags animation, choir, Creep, creepy, dismemberment, dolls, funny, Radiohead, Scala & Kolacny Brothers on April 14, 2012 by ssstephgA heartfelt thank you to my very thoughtful friend Andrew for linking me to this delightful animation which I hope you enjoy as much as I did.
eheheheheheh,
-Steph
Diane Arbus and the Snapshot
Posted in Art, Jason Gray with tags Diane Arbus, Jason Gray, snapshot on April 13, 2012 by Jason GrayBoth the bane and the benefit of photography in the Modern Age is camera technology that enables the novice photographer to produce a convincing photographic representation without much training, artistic inclination, or investment expense. Currently, introductory cameras (point-and-shoot compacts, cell phone cameras, entry-level DSLRs, etc.) are so fully automated that almost anyone can pick one up and immediately make a decent picture. This fact implies that photography is not always as complicated as photographers make it seem. For individuals attempting to professionalize the activity of taking photographs, this represents a dilemma; how does one take advantage of streamlining technology, while at the same time, preserving the role of the operator as a necessary component? The answer, of course, has been for the professional photographer to point to the novice photographer’s images and call them “snapshots”, or images made crudely without regard for photographic conventions.
A “snapshot”.
Lonely Girl, First Stage
Posted in Art, art on paper, expressionist, figurative, monotype, nude, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, expressionist figure, expressionist nude, figure, lonely, monotype, nude, paper, printmaking, Tom Bennett on April 12, 2012 by Tom BennettUgh, been working nonstop for the man. The marketing man who thinks what he does is art, is rock & roll. It ain’t. I squeezed out a monotype the other night and I’ll be slathering paint onto the this soon. Keep you up dated.
Lonely Girl, monotype on rives BFK, 16″ x 20″
Bleak Landscape
Posted in abstract, Art, Collage, Toni Tiller with tags abstract, Art, Collage, Toni Tiller on April 11, 2012 by Toni TillerI’ve been thinking about little stark landscapes, flat colors, and focusing on what I leave behind as much as what I cut out. This is my first attempt, and it reminds me of old sci-fi book covers for some reason. Maybe it’s the orange. I need to make some more of these.
Your Own Dander, Your own Sunbeam
Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags abstract, Art, nonobjective, nonrepresentational, Painting, steph gerolimatos, stephg, wip on April 7, 2012 by ssstephg
Here’s a work in progress. Below is an earlier version I posted a week or two ago. Painting is going pretty well right now. I sometimes wonder why I ever leave the studio. Not much else seems worth the bother. My cat just entered the room, shot me a perfunctory stare, then laid down in his own personal sunbeam. He knows what’s up.
Whatever you require,
-Steph
Cluster Fluck
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, current events, events, exhibits, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, Toni Tiller, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, expressionist nude, figure, Hennessy Youngman, itsa small small world, J. D. Hastings, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil on monotype, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, Toni Tiller on April 5, 2012 by Tom BennettYesterday Toni Tiller posted about the show Its a Small, Small World, also called Cluster Fluck, an open show at Family Business, a 10′ x 12′ foot space curated by a very funny Hennessy Youngman. Entertaining art happening. There may have been maybe 100 artists represented; here’s the little piece I had in it. It was in a good spot. On the other hand, when you’re talking about 120 square feet, any spot is a good spot.
Drunken Silenus, ink and graphite on paper, 11 x 8
Below is a recent Monotype reworked with oil.
April, oil paint into monotype on paper, 24″ x 18″
Itsa Small, Small World
Posted in Art, events, Toni Tiller with tags Art, exhibit, Hennessy Youngman, J. D. Hastings, Tom Bennett, Toni Tiller on April 4, 2012 by Toni TillerWe thought it would be fun to do this.
While I was out in California visiting Mr. Hastings we started experimenting with combining our styles. He chose the colors, I did the drawing, and then we stitched it all together. The intention was to make three, but in the end only had time to make one, and because I liked the result so much I was hesitant to submit it to the show having been warned of the high probability of damage. A conversation or two later I put those reservations aside, remembering that it’s only art, if it gets ruined we’ll just make more.
The opening was last night, and it was the most astonishing art even I have ever attended, I’m pretty sure all of Williamsburg showed up. There were costumes, Indian food, a temporary tattoo station and a lot of atrocious fashion. My favorite part was watching some girl walk face first into a piece of paper covered in dried semen, and rather than acknowledge what it was she just threw it on the ground to be stomped by everyone bunching up in the rear. Can’t say that I blame her.
I waited for our Mr. Bennett, who also submitted a piece for the show, and then tried to squeeze my way in (this is one of those instances where being a small person is beneficial) which after a half an hour of wiggling I finally managed to do. The gallery is the size of a walk in closet with every available surface covered in work ranging from good to godawful. I found ours instantly, and was pleasantly surprised to see that we actually got a good spot, low enough to be well seen, high enough to not get damaged, took my photo and got the fuck out.
Just in time too, because not long after we left the whole scene turned into this.
photo credit @spankandblank
And if you’d like to know a little more about the man behind all this, Jayson Musson, a.k.a Hennessey Youngman, a.k.a The Pharaoh Hennessey, a.k.a The Pedagogic Pimp, check out this interview with him here.
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
just drawing …
Posted in Art, Drawing, laelia e. mitchell, mixed media, work on paper with tags Drawing, laelia e. mitchell, mixed media on April 2, 2012 by laelia e. mitchellgraphite, charcoal and oil stick
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