Archive for Canvas

Nested Flowers

Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting, Textile with tags , , , , , , , on July 13, 2010 by jdhastings

Many thanks to fellow member, Jason for sending me some photo suggestions this weekend. The settings helped a lot and I have updated the pictures from last week’s quilting project.

This week I’m finally posting something that formed the basis of this post and this post. Those were both sketches to teach me how to make this or to help me visualize a color scheme that is something of a departure for me.

3 Layer Flower
“3 Layer Flower” 24″ x 24″ Acrylic on Canvas with Safety-Pins

What’s new about this is it had the basic form as this piece but manages to nest the shape within itself. Honestly, I wasn’t as happy with the final result as I hoped I’d be, and have still considered adding some purple higlights into the fields of blue, but I did accomplish the basic goal I set out to do. In the future I can now nest several more layers in similar fashion. In theory.

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Hey Look, It’s Another One Of These

Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , , on January 5, 2010 by jdhastings

Last week I promised to have worked more on art in time for this week. Instead I spent my 3 day New Year’s Weekend with what I assume was swine flu. And don’t think I’m above whining about it.

Anyways, I did manage this before the onslaught. It’s a version of the cutout cards I was making, but in 10″ x 10″ pieces of canvas instead of small paper versions. Its not really ideal size to be scanned, so some of the sides got cut off, but… Swine Flu. Deal with it.

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I’ll have another post later Tuesday. Random crap I found while rearranging my room. I thought I should post this instead you hate all of those, though. And I just realized I forgot to add a final small piece to this one that would help separate Miles’ chin from the trumpter. Crud. So far I’m not loving the ‘teens.

Livin for 2020 (Mad Dog, that is),

JD

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From the Archive: Thrtee Stage Blue Cascades

Posted in Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , , , on December 29, 2009 by jdhastings

Crap, it’s Tuesday, isn’t it?  The Holiday “schedule” has destroyed my sense of time.  And Space, but that’s something else entirely.

This is from 2006.

Three Stage Blue Cascades
“Three Stage Blue Cascades” Acrylic on Canvas, with Safety Pins

The size of this piece varies because you can position it in different ways, but it’s roughly 4 feet wide by 5 feet long or something like that. It’s kind of a pain to store anywhere but on a wall because it gets tangled no matter what you do and you end up having to unhook safety pins and re-attach them in their new confriguration. It is currently hanging in an upscale eyeglasses shop in Southern California. Obviously.

Next week I’ll be more responsible with my post, I promise. Happy New Years, everybody.

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Hidden in Plain Sight

Posted in abstract, Art, figurative, oil painting, Tom Bennett with tags , , , , , , on October 8, 2009 by Tom Bennett

I have been thinking of black and white abstract expressionist paintings I have seen at shows in NY lately. The jumbled patterns create an infinite number of possible narrative forms that become a kind of “screen”, a “purdah” of sorts. This is the first of a series I’d like to explore, using more or less small bits of color to break up the wider field of black, white and grays.

Tom Bennett

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Purdah, oil on canvas, 60″ x 48″

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4,377 Days: Art and Cycles

Posted in Art, Painting, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , , , on August 8, 2009 by ssstephg


After August
oil on torn canvas with plexiglass
73 x 34 inches

I made this a long time ago (not 4,377 days ago, probably closer to 3,283 days) but it’s pefect for today. I’m going to spend the day biking with a bunch of people I love, and reminiscing about others I love and miss… this people in particular.

that’s my dad looking all young and handsome. :)

Three detail pics of the painting included after the jump! 
This painting is a big one, too so the overall pic is a bit hard to decipher.  If you want to get an idea of what it’s actually like, taking a look at the details and employing some imagination will help. Read more »

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All about Eve

Posted in Art, figurative, oil painting, Painting, portrait, Tom Bennett with tags , , , , , on June 10, 2009 by Tom Bennett

From the twentieth century archives, in a private collection deep in the chesapeake bay, my favorite neice, Eve. She was but 8 years old then. She now slays them at all the best Johns Hopkins sorority bashes.

Tom Bennett

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Eve, oil on canvas, 24 x 30

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From the Archives: A Couple Loose Ends

Posted in abstract, Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , , , on June 9, 2009 by jdhastings

Good morning, fellow travelers. Or if you are part of the massive metropolitan sprawl known as the Easten Seaboard, happy noon.

I thought today I’d show a couple pieces that maybe don’t warrant their own weekly post, but are worth showing.  So I’m going to post 3 or 4 things throughout the day.

The first piece, “Red, White and Dark” was one of the first pin weaves I did way back when. The intent here was to try to wrangle a composition into the mix. This ultimately proved a little unweildy, and led me to find other means of composition in later pieces. But I still have a fond place for this one.

Dark, White and Red
16″ x 20″, Acrylic on canvas w/ safety pins

I’ll have the next post around my lunchtime- in 2-3 hours.   Hope to see you then!

-JD

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From the Archives: Squid

Posted in abstract, Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , on June 2, 2009 by jdhastings

So this piece was the next logical step once I’d finished Holes and a few Cascade pieces. Combine the two to get a piece with both the strict formal aspects and the loose anti-form bits. And in purple to boot.

This version is smaller, to fit on your screen vertically, but there’s a larger version and a separate detail after the jump:

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12″ x 60″ Acrylic on Canvas w/ Safety Pins

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Wintertime Art

Posted in Art, Painting, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags , , , , , , , , , on May 30, 2009 by ssstephg


Byzantine Winter
oil on panel and canvas with foam-backed red-orange velour behind openings
42 x 24 x 2+ inches

Ah man, it’s been cold again. We’ve had too much rain and the temps have been down in the fifties! Bleh. So that means crap light, crap mood and not much productivity. In keeping with the cold, the above is a painting a I did during the winter months. It’s similar to the last one I posted in that it incorporates the same basic elements–a highly textured surface, a limited palette and openings in the canvas backed with brightly colored fuzzy fabric. Unlike the last painting, the holes in this one go right through the panel and the fabric is backed with a squishy foam and pressed up tight to the panel so that it bulges out a bit. Kids really dig this one. When it’s hung, the openings are at a perfect height for small hands to reach.

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From the Archives: Green Cascades

Posted in abstract, Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , , , on May 12, 2009 by jdhastings

I’m hoping I’ll have a new safety-pin piece to post next week, but until then, walk with me down memory lane. 

The year is 2006, the world is marveling at the silly name and silky sounds of Gnarls Barkley’s first record, Superman Returns was moderately entertaining people in the theaters and Edmund Phelps was winning the Nobel Prize in Economics for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy. While I had leftovers from this thing.

I took those pieces and built this:

Green Cascades

60″ x 12″, acrylic on canvas with safety-pins.  There is a full sized detail after the jump.

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NOISE

Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , , on April 28, 2009 by jdhastings

This piece and I have had a wrestling match on par with the endless fight scene between Rowdy Roddy Piper and Keith David in “They Live”. Which is ironic, because the original impetus for the piece was a reaction against the super-deliberation in many of my other pieces.

I usually work hard to strike a balance in the color schemes of these pieces. I don’t want them to be too uniform, but neither do I want to stray into too much chaos. The result is an agonized back and forth that usually isn’t worth the final result.

This was my reaction against that tendency. I wanted to embrace the chaos, and let it reign over a noisy, unbeautiful mess, if only to show how much work it is to avoid such things in other pieces.

Noise
“Noise” 36″ x 24″ Mixed Media with Safety Pins

Click for access to larger photos. Detail after the jump.

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From the Archives: Glued Scraps 1

Posted in Art, J. D. Hastings, mixed media with tags , , , , on April 21, 2009 by jdhastings

I almost had new art to post today, but the revision process took too long, so hopefully that’ll come next week. Instead, I’m posting this old piece, from 2005, maybe early 2006.

Glued Scraps 1

31″ x 31″ Acrylic on Canvas w/ glue.  Click for access to larger version

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Woven Weaves

Posted in abstract, Art, J. D. Hastings, mixed media, Painting, Textile with tags , , , , , , , on April 14, 2009 by jdhastings

When I first started wrecking canvases for reassemblage, I mainly wove various paintings together. At the time I didn’t know it but this is a fairly common practice, springing as far as I can tell from the steady merging of fiber arts into the traditional, paint-dominated “fine arts” canon. This piece is made of woven paintings that I’ve stabilized with acrylic medium, then cut up and wove a second time.

Hopefully the detail after the jump makes it clear what’s going on here.

The blue bar and red square are my standard saefety-pin style. They and the vertical black bar are stretched to separate bars that are mounted atop the main canvas and frame, giving the piece a three dimensionality tht is probably impossible to convey here.

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24″ x 24″ acrylic on canvas, with safety-pins. Click for access to larger versions. Detail shot after the jump.

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Tiny Little Archives

Posted in abstract, Art, Individual Scraps, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , , on April 7, 2009 by jdhastings

Its always frustrating to post photos of my safety-pin paintings because even with details the individual scraps that make up the pieces get lost like a tree within a forest. In person I work hard to make the individual scraps worthy of study over time. In fact the tiny scraps are the main focus of the series. Their nature and how they’re used is the motivation to pursue this direction. The overall compositions is ultimately just the framework to fit them into.

Because of that, I like to save some of the better individuals to blow up and show as their own pieces. Hopefully its easier to put the photos of entire pieces in better perspective with more knowledge of what the pieces making it up look like.

So here are some of my collection of select scraps. Each is between 1 or 2 inches by 1 or 2 inches. All are acrylic on canvas.

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3 more after the jump.
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Archives: Holes

Posted in abstract, Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , , on March 31, 2009 by jdhastings

These are from 2006. One night, while walking the 5 feet from my desk to bed, I wondered what it would look like if I used safety-pins to pull open holes in the surface of my paintings. I thought the idea was hilarious, to have the focus of a piece be a void, so I ran with it.

Holes
Click for access to a larger view. Detail after the jump.
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Synthesis

Posted in abstract, Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , on March 3, 2009 by jdhastings

I made this piece for my friends’ wedding last year.

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Click to enlarge. Each component is 10″ x 10″, so I suppose it’s around 34″ tall. Detail after the jump.

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The Mart of Bart: A transcription

Posted in Art, art on paper, homage, Miscellaneous, monotype, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, Work in Progress with tags , , , , , , , , , on January 15, 2009 by Tom Bennett


Artists have always looked to the past for inspiration or simply to learn from the masters. Transcription is the term for the process of making a work based on a preceding work by another artist.
This is a study and a larger work in progress. Based on the painting by Tiepolo, depicting the martyrdom of that old kidder, the apostle Bartholomew. The story is he was flayed alive and crucified upside down. Well that’s a fun-filled story, but what I responded to was the design and movement of the original.

– Tom Bennett

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monotype, 18″ x 12″

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In progress, oil on canvas, 36″ x 48″

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the original: The Martyrdom of St Bartholomew, Tiepolo, 1722

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Dropcloth Remix

Posted in Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , on December 16, 2008 by jdhastings

I’m busy making Holiday Cards this week* so I’ll have to be quick.

My dropcloth pieces are made from canvases on which I painted other paintings. In this case I’ve taken a few dropcloths that were actually used to mask a larger dropcloth that I’ve been working on for over a year and a half (with a lot more to do). I just finished another 4 smaller dropcloths this weekend, but I am not yet decided whether to leave them as is or “remix” them in this way.

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“Dropcloth Remix” 24″ x 24″, Acrylic on Canvas.

*Send me your address and I will send you one- maybe not in time for the holidays, but sometime soon.

-JD

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