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Posted in Art, internet, laelia e. mitchell, landscape, Photography with tags Art, digital, laelia e. mitchell, Photography on April 23, 2012 by laelia e. mitchellArt 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
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.
i WILL get to the studio today, dammit
Posted in digital, laelia e. mitchell, Photography, World Bird Sanctuary with tags abstract, Art, laelia e. mitchell, Photography, studio practice on April 9, 2012 by laelia e. mitchell
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
Blue Paintscape Birds-eye View
Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags abstract, Art, materials, Painting, process, Stephanie Gerolimatos, stephg, wip, Work in Progress on March 31, 2012 by ssstephg
Above is a closeup of what’s happening with one of the pieces I posted last weekend. Below is another work in progress. It’s another of the two foot square panels.
Yep. That’s what I’ve got going on.
-Steph
International Collaboration
Posted in abstract, Art, Collage, expressionism, figurative, mixed media, nude, oil painting, Painting, Tom Bennett with tags abstract, Art, collaboration, Collage, mixed media, Painting, Tom Bennett on March 29, 2012 by Tom BennettSometime last year I had a conversation with Jean Christensen, a collage artist whom I’ve befriended through an online art group and who lives and works in France, about the idea of a collaboration. I had pitched the idea to him just because I thought it would be a interesting exercise in managing decision-making within a control-variable situation. I’m a bit of a control freak as I think Jean is, although I believe we’re both generously diplomatic at the same time. But as he has suggested himself, he and I are quite different in our styles, tastes and history.
So he agreed to the idea and sent me a 10″ x 14″ hardwood board he had glued various cut paper to. Images of fish, food, mammals, rocks, etc. I worked oil paint into it and sent it back to France. He added more collaged bits and sent it back where I sat on it for a long, long time. I Had been trying to make it work abstractly but it wasn’t happening so I went in another direction and finished it. I think it works pretty well under the circumstances, formally and somehow as expression.
I suggested to him if we do this again, I’ll start the piece and he finish it. The artist to last work on a collaboration like this has the advantage of final say.
This is a mediocre photograph but I’ve included the first 3 stages of the process as well.
Tom Bennett & Jean Christensen, Collaboration, oil paint, collaged paper, varnish. glue on wood, 10″ x 14″
Below are the first 3 stages.
stage 1:
Stage 2:
Stage 3:
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
I am so blessed …
Posted in awareness, digital, laelia e. mitchell with tags Art, laelia e. mitchell, life, Photography on March 26, 2012 by laelia e. mitchell… to be in my life. I’ve been working all week (hence no art making) in the city of Phoenix. my take away is how heartbreaking the amount of homeless are here maybe it’s where I am in life, however, i can’t help thinking “it’s simply one step in a different direction and it could be me”. the women and men I’ve seen this trip … heartbreaking … so next time I bitch about not having enough studio time, I’ll think back to this day and quietly know how effing lucky I am
photo taken while walking the streets of phoenix
2.828427125 Two Foot Square Squares Squared
Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags abstract, Art, I forget teh maths, process, steph gerolimatos, stephg, wip, Work in Progress on March 24, 2012 by ssstephg
just primed panels drying in the sun
Don’t let the title of this post mislead you. I’m no math geek. I mean, I do think math is great. I love math geeks. It’s just that there is a ton of math I haven’t actually used since high school. As a result, there is much that I have forgotten. I’m still good at measuring and fractions because that’s handy for building things. But honestly, in the interest of creating a convoluted post title, I looked up the square root of eight today in lieu of even trying to figure it out.
Back to art! My very special pal built for me this week, eight fabulously-crafted two foot square panels. That’s him above alongside the panels with his blue ball and his blue yoga mat. Thank you, handsome, beardy Bodart! Each panel is cradled with one by twos which leaves a little room in the back for things like squishy foam and velvet or whatever else strikes my fancy once I start cutting into these suckers. I haven’t started any subtractive work yet, just additive. See a couple of works in progress below.
acrylic, spray paint and flocking fiber
acrylic
Happy painting, bitches!
-happy painting bitch Steph
WIP: Limbs
Posted in abstract, Art, expressionist, figurative, nude, oil painting, Painting, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, expressionist figure painting, expressionist nude, figure, nude, Painting, Tom Bennett, wip on March 22, 2012 by Tom BennettLiving in NY requires money. I have little time to eat or breathe. I suppose I’ll have to learn to live on 4 hours of sleep to give myself enough space to paint and do my laundry. What ends up happening is I’m left with beginning projects that require blocks of time to conceptualize, think, sit and allow to grow. I don’t have those blocks. This is another piece that may very well ferment like so many others have over the past few months.
WIP: Limbs, oil on canvas, 31″ x 46″
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