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Posted in abstract, Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Toni Tiller, Work in Progress with tags , , , , , on May 30, 2012 by Toni Tiller

After getting all jazzed up last week about the new materials and all that color and pattern oh how exciting because boy don’t I love new challenges,  went upstairs, spread everything out, and picked…

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It’s so boring.  And if you add a swipe of teal in there it becomes the exact same color scheme as the Ramada Inn circa 1984.  I think I must have been terrified when I was looking down at everything, all those pieces, 87 total, and just selected the colors that were safest to me.  On the other had there were some successful elements, it was another clarification of how the white thread changes and pulls together the designs, and the actual sewing of the shapes came much ore easily.  Not sure if it is worth finishing though.

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Stick With That

Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Toni Tiller with tags , , , , , on May 23, 2012 by Toni Tiller

These colors and patterns made me uncomfortable.

But of course that was the point, right? Previous efforts in this collab have been in my color/pattern safety area, nice and neutral. Puzzling this one out was fun, working hard to keep the chaos of the free shaped forms in some harmony with the rigidness of the lines, fearing muddled results otherwise.

I don’t usually use these colors, or stripes either, and that two pages were so similar in color made an easy choice to flip one horizontally to give the forms some definition against each other.  The opposite approach seemed fitting to handle the black and white, syncing up the lines where possible so vertical structure could be created,but none of it was working until the stitching was added, giving the eye just enough of a break to navigate it all.

I think.

I mean I hope. Did it sound like I knew what I was talking about up there?

That was an honest reflection of the decisions that went into it, but it’s all new, new materials, new techniques, so it’s still pretty mysterious.  But I want to make more, so I figure it must be the right track.

 

By the way,  the title came from a random thing on the bottom of my computer, but it seemed to fitting, so I followed instructions.

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I’m Lazy. Sue Me.

Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , on May 15, 2012 by jdhastings

I couldn’t be bothered to photograph a new piece yesterday so you get this.

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-JD

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Ambition With Cuts

Posted in Art, Collage, Toni Tiller with tags , , , on May 9, 2012 by jdhastings

I promised Toni I’d scan this and post it but then I didn’t. I supplied her the collage materials, she did the rest.

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Tape and Tape and Tape and

Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , on May 8, 2012 by jdhastings

So 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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Gray Scales

Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , , on April 24, 2012 by jdhastings

My 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.

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“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.

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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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Another Imaginary Landscape

Posted in Art, Collage, landscape, Toni Tiller with tags , , , , on April 18, 2012 by Toni Tiller

The 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?

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Tape Parade

Posted in abstract, Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , , , on April 17, 2012 by jdhastings

My 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.

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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.

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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).

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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 »

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Bleak Landscape

Posted in abstract, Art, Collage, Toni Tiller with tags , , , on April 11, 2012 by Toni Tiller

I’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.

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International Collaboration

Posted in abstract, Art, Collage, expressionism, figurative, mixed media, nude, oil painting, Painting, Tom Bennett with tags , , , , , , on March 29, 2012 by Tom Bennett

Sometime 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.

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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:

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Pinch Hitting

Posted in Collage, Toni Tiller with tags , , on March 28, 2012 by jdhastings

Toni 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.

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I like this one a lot. It has an advanced sense of color and form relationships.

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Masking Tape Remixes Redux

Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , , , on March 27, 2012 by jdhastings

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Here are more quilted remixes of some recent pieces made from masking tape leftover from other paintings.

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-JD

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Spring Has Sprung

Posted in Art, Collage, Toni Tiller with tags , , , , on March 7, 2012 by Toni Tiller

This is another version of my static spring design.

I wish I had more to say about it but I don’t.

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With or Without?

Posted in Art, Collage, Toni Tiller with tags , , , , on February 15, 2012 by Toni Tiller

I like this springy swirly shape that has come up a few times, and usually I stick with a pretty simple formula, black background with two cut pieces on top in two subtly varying values. Then I thought it might be a good opportunity to deviate in color, use the set pattern to put that part of the thinking aside and focus on the color combinations. In theory this was fine, but when I applied my usual formula it looked a little…what? Too spare? I don’t know, but it just isn’t really working for me.

So I added another layer, and now wonder if it is too busy?

Any thoughts?

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Trash

Posted in Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , on February 14, 2012 by jdhastings

I 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:

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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 Recent Mini Magnet And A Trade

Posted in Art, Collage, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags , , , , , , on February 8, 2012 by Toni Tiller

I recently sent out some pieces to my Twitter friend Tim Severson, who has photography, video, and design company he shares with his wife Melissa in Texas. I really enjoy their work and they were kind enough to send me 2 prints (it was supposed to be one, but I couldn’t decide and they surprised me with two) which I am looking forward to hanging. I have the spot already picked out.

and here is one of the mini magnets I sent them.

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A Bunch of Thes

Posted in Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , on February 7, 2012 by jdhastings

Still very much work, still very much in progress.

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These will not be paired with “Ends.”

-JD

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Mini Mini’s

Posted in Art, Collage, Toni Tiller with tags , , , , on January 4, 2012 by Toni Tiller

When I was out west visiting with Mr. Hastings I noticed a stack of unused magnets that have been sitting there for 4 years (I know this because I stuck them there 4 years ago) and I asked if I could have them. I probably could have just thrown them in my bag and they would have never been missed, but it’s always polite to ask.

These are 2 inches by 3 inches.

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So I Was Hanging Out

Posted in abstract, Art, Collage, Toni Tiller with tags , , , on December 14, 2011 by Toni Tiller

Working on collages, scalpel in hand and one of my friends was telling me a story about how he used to work on his grandfathers pig farm as a kid. He said his job was to sit around and hand castrate the little boy piglets with one swift, well placed cut and sometimes he’d have to do about 600 a day assembly line style.

While he was telling me I ended up making this.

I swear I didn’t do it on purpose.

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More Stuff to Make Stuff With and a Sketch

Posted in Art, Collage, Painting with tags , , , on December 13, 2011 by jdhastings

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This is a quick sketch I made in photoshop at the end of last night. It fills in a geometrical perspective drawing I made with collaged paintings.

The collaged painting I used is here, which includes some paintings that Steph sent me to cut up for her.

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Here’s a few others:
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