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Completed Quilts

Posted in Art, Collage, craft, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , , on November 1, 2011 by jdhastings

This weekend I finished working with the quilts I posted last week.

Green copy White copy Orange copy

Before starting these I had been having trouble getting started with these types of quilts. For a few weeks I’d had several false starts, or completely partial pieces that I wasn’t comfortable using on their own. Finally one night I began idly working the green part of this piece:

Green copy
Each piece is 26″ x 26″, acrylic and paper collage quilted together.

I actually got a good 18″ x 18″ of it done. The next night I realized it was too green, as I mentioned last week, but the process had put me back in the flow of the process. The form in these is one I’d been meaning to return to. What followed was a relatively rapid process of completing the 3 pieces, cutting them up Friday night and finishing them Saturday.

White copy

Orange copy

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Sub-Quilts

Posted in Art, Collage, craft, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , on October 25, 2011 by jdhastings

Lately I’ve been trying to do more of the types of quilts I started the year working on, but I’ve been having issues with color schemes. I have Piles of canvases lining my dropcloth divided into rough colors (Green, Blue, Yellow, Orange, Neutral) that are supposed to help me with this, but this actually just tends to limit me to a single hue. When I try to start combining the colors together, the combinations start getting too complicated to control.

Green

Color schemes like this work well, but are harder to herd than you might expect. Complements make each other brighter, so the pieces you thought was underplayed prior to adding it suddenly become stark when sewn together. At that point the rest of the quilt becomes a series of reactions trying to wrangle the color scheme back from noise. If you become too conservative, though, the colors wash out into uniformity. This can be good at times when you want to emphasize the pattern of a quilt, but in chaotic patchwork of a hundred tiny pieces, you lose your focal point.

My response has been to work in more uniform fields, which I can then combine in larger, easier to control forms later. That’s what these are. I need to finish another color or more and then will make 3-5 pieces out of them, with overall shapes defining them. They will each end up 28″ square, but I need to add 4 inches to the green one.

-JD

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Test Pattern

Posted in craft, Daniel Allyn Lee, design, digital, Illustration with tags , , , , on March 14, 2011 by Daniel Allyn Lee

I managed to get this group of monsters to wrap around after fiddling with them forever on the computer. I’ve wanted to try this for a while to get some fabric printed with my characters in the pattern. The pattern doesn’t match exactly, but close enough. I’ll probably just have a swatch printed with this exact pattern. I’ve had some fabric printed with monster faces before, that I made into dolls, but not an original drawn pattern. I’ll have to experiment more with.
test pattern

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Book Filler

Posted in Art, Collage, craft, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , , on March 1, 2011 by jdhastings

If you saw my post last week, I created a blank book as a test of book making methods. It is the exception to the rule of judging a book by its cover, since that was all I really was trying to create.

In order to fill the book, I’m going to try to send it to people to trick them into filling it for me. In order to convince them to do so, though, I figured I should add a few pages myself, so I make a couple very different quilts for the cause:

This is the first page. I think it’s very welcoming.

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“Youre Wrong” 4″ x 7.5″

This is a play on my tendency to get into arguments on the internet. I even got into a minro altercation regarding my omission of an apostrophe. The background is made of quilted paintings, the words are made of arty gallery mailers moutned on canvas.

For my next trick, I made my first ever fabric quilt, with 2 sides and binding.

Front:
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“Quilt 1″ 4.5″ x 8″

Technically it’s awful (note the corners of the shapes don’t line up and I had no idea what I was doing with the binding), but it’s my first try, so get over it.

Back:
First Quilt029

-JD

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test dolls

Posted in craft, Daniel Allyn Lee, Painting, Textile with tags , , , , , , , on January 31, 2011 by Daniel Allyn Lee

I made a couple test dolls. One of which is a custom mighty muggs monster; I got a bunch of blanks for cheap recently. The second is a Wizard I made from scratch using polymer clay, fabric, and batting all on a wire armature.
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With the monster I wanted to try out my paint on, and gluing pieces onto a DIY doll like this. Its sort of like a munny, but by Hasbro. Then, with the wizard I wanted to try making a doll like this. I wasn’t too concerned with how he turned out I didn’t really do too much planning on him. The sculpting is pretty basic but he’s kind of cute. now that I know how thses will turn out I wall definitely attempt more involved designs for both.

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card

Posted in Art, craft, Daniel Allyn Lee, design, digital, Drawing with tags , , on April 19, 2010 by Daniel Allyn Lee

monster card
I just ordered some post cards of this and another design. This one is three different sketches mashed together and colored on the computer.
I’m doing a craft show in the beginning of June. Its my first one; I figured I’d try one out and,  see how I do and if I like it. Anyway, I’ll pry sell little sets of postcards plus, I plan to stick them in the bags instead of a business cards.
I’m already freaking out about not having enough time to get everything I want to do done. I plan to make a few collage/paintings between now and then, but mostly I will be sewing my face off.

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Idol

Posted in Art, craft, Daniel Allyn Lee, Painting, sculpture with tags , , , on March 22, 2010 by Daniel Allyn Lee

wooden idol
Here is a peek of the wooden idols I’m working on. They’re acrylic on wood and all around 12 1/2″ tall.  I had three different designs cut and I’m close to being finished on all of them. I wanted them to be brightly colored, with lots of pattern and decoration and have a definite hand-painted look. I was loosely referencing Aztec, Indian, Asian, and Pacific northwest American Indian motifs with these and some other designs, I still plan on having cut out down the line.

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painted monsters

Posted in Art, craft, Daniel Allyn Lee, design, Drawing, Illustration, Painting with tags , , , , , on September 14, 2009 by Daniel Allyn Lee

I finally got those art doll monsters sewed together (well, most of them).  I took a quick snap of them. I used canvas covered buttons for the eyes.  I was thinking of doing some abstract soft sculpture in this same vein, but that idea has evolved into something more, that I don’t want to get into right now.

painted art dolls

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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A Stately Pleasure-Dome Decree

Posted in Art, art on paper, Collage, craft, Drawing, Illustration, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , , , , , on August 11, 2009 by jdhastings

Lately I’ve had issues making progress on several art pieces. For each piece I’d give myself a range of options, trying to make the work come out well, but I wasn’t really convinced by any of the options. Thinking through what I should do for each dragged the joy out of it, with the result being I haven’t gotten much done the last couple weeks.

So finally, learning a lesson I’ve had to learn 1000 times before, I said “Screw it,” and decided to amuse myself and do whatever I knew I shouldn’t do. This is the result.

Volcanoes

The quote in the title of this post is a reference to a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem that isn’t about volcanoes. And I think that’s perfectly apt.

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The other pieces, the source drawing and more rambling after the jump.

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Shazam!!

Posted in art fair, craft, Jason Gray, performance with tags , , , on August 1, 2009 by Jason Gray

36Me and Leslie Hall from Leslie and the Lys (I picked her up in the lobby).

Last night was the opening for the Big Ass Indie Art and Craft Show, and it was undoubtedly the most fun that I have ever had at one of my own art shows.  There were performances by Clownvis Presley, burlesque dancers (Lolla Van Ella, Michelle Minx), and Leslie and the Lys, plus, a ton of art.  The place was so jam-packed last night, that I’m going to have to go back today and really check everything out.   More pics after the jump.

All Nikon D50 with 50mm f/1.8D Lens attached.

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I Made A Crafty Trade

Posted in Art, craft, Toni Tiller with tags , , , , , on July 22, 2009 by Toni Tiller

A little while back (too long really) our friend Scott, the proprietor of Bellevue Fine Art Printing made an exceptionally generous trade with me for printing one of my pieces. In return I gilded a dog skull with silver leaf that had belonged to him for a very long time, to me it seemed like a more than fair trade and in the end I am rather pleased with the results.

Scott’s company does great work and as an artist himself really understands the needs of the people he is working with, I encourage anyone who needs prints to have a consultation with him.

Oh and Scott, the dog’s in the mail.


-Toni “bunnie” Tiller

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fabric and zine

Posted in craft, Daniel Allyn Lee, design with tags , , , , , , on July 20, 2009 by Daniel Allyn Lee

I’ve been working on some illustrations of monsters. I decided to put them together with some other stuff into a little monster themed zine thing. I’m hoping it will be funny and cute. Here’s one of the pages.

Also, an update on that fabric I ordered last week. It already arrived! Man that spoonflower.com is fast. The colors did shift a little bit but that’s kinda why I went with primary colors, anyway.

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Does This Count?

Posted in Art, craft, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags , , , , on June 24, 2009 by Toni Tiller

Ok I didn’t have time to make art this week because I spent the majority of it building this enormous chandelier but I think I can sneak this in because not only did I help build it, but I did all the photographing too. So I think maybe it can almost pass as art, craft certainly, and in the end it came in at about 5 feet in height and around 100 man hours total. As far as day jobs go it really is a nice one I think. If you click on the picture it gets really big!

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puppet

Posted in Art, Collage, craft, Daniel Allyn Lee, Textile on May 18, 2009 by Daniel Allyn Lee

I didn’t get a lot of creative stuff done this last week. No fine art for sure. I did work on a puppet, started on some finger puppets, made some monsters for a wholesale order and sketched some new doll designs.
I’m sucha slacker.
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Fong puppet, made from a design by Tom Rebello

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