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Polygons and Polyhedra Set 5

Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , , , , on April 23, 2013 by jdhastings

I’m just going to keep chugging these out. This will be half of the completed books that are made. If this seems repetitive to you, just imagine hand cutting and sewing them. Let alone, scanning, cropping and coding to post here. I did add a slideshow though.

Cover:
Cover863

Page 2
Line4
“Line”

Page 3
Angle1
“Angle”
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New Shapes

Posted in Art, Drawing, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , , on April 2, 2013 by jdhastings

A few exercises I did to practice brush-work.

Compound of 5 tetrahedra
“Compound of 5 Tetrahedra,” 8″ x 6″, acrylic on paper

Great ditrigonal icosidodecahedron

“Great Ditrigonal Icosidodecahedron” 8″ x 6″, acrylic on paper

-JD

Polygons and Polyhedra Set 3 of 10

Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags , , , , , , , on February 26, 2013 by jdhastings

Cover1760
Cover

Page 2
Line3
“Line”

Page 3
Angle6
“Angle”

Page 4
Triangle3
“Triangle”

Page 5
Square3
“Square”

Page 6
Pentagon639
“Pentagon”

Page 7
Hexagon647
“Hexagon”

Page 8
Hepagon6
“Hepagon”

Page 9
Octagon655
“Octagon”

Page 10
Tetrahedron3
“Tetrahedron”

Page 11
Hexahedron5
“Cube”

Page 12
Octahedron686
“Octahedron”

Page 13
Dodecahedron615
“Dodecahedron”

Page 14
Icosohedron587
“Icosahedron”

Page 15
Hexagonal Prism4
“Hexagonal Prism”

Page 16
Cuboctahedron5
“Cuboctahedron”

Page 17
Truncated octahedron604
“Truncated Octahedron”

Page 18
Rhombicuboctahedron1
“Rhombicuboctahedron”

Page 19
Triakistetrahedron664
“Triakistetrahedron664″

Page 20
Pentagonal icositetrahedron3
“Pentagonal Icositetrahedron”

Page 21
Rhombic Dedecahedron3
“Rhombic Dedecahedron”

Page 22
Square Gyrocupola1
“Square Gyrocupola”

Page 23
Triaugmented Hexagonal Prism3
“Triaugmented Hexaonal Prism”

Page 24
Hebesphenomegacorona3
“Hebesphenomegacorona”

Page 25
Stella Octangula1
“Stella Octangula”

Page 26
Square Antiprism3
“Square Antiprism”

-JD

Rhombicuboctahedrons For Mental Health

Posted in Art, Drawing, J. D. Hastings with tags , , , , on September 20, 2011 by jdhastings

Last week I was having energy and anxiety issue. Finally, one day at work, I forced myself to draw this:

As I said then on tumblr, “When the world seems particularly stupid I get an obsessive urge to make perspective drawings to assure myself order still exists, even if it’s just the illusion of such.”

Since then, my computer has refused to acknowledge my printer/scanner combo, my cable television cut out and as of this morning, my building’s water didn’t work. Possibly due to a crackhead stealing it’s pipes. Clearly, a fancy cube wasn’t going to cut it. Thus I present you, the “rhombicuboctahedron,” a term I had to look up on google this morning. I had been calling it a 3D octagon, but will now pretend I knew it’s real name all along.

Octagon3

(I apologize for the appearance of these photos. Due to my scanner being out I used my camera and apparently messed up the entire enterprise.) This version was inked with drafting pen on vellum (the vellum I’m using is basically high quality tracing paper). This allows me to preserve states of the original so I can go different directions later if I choose.

Octagon4

This is an earlier state of the same drawing showing the completely transparent rhombicuboctahedron. It may take a while to understand it as such, but I assure you it’s true.

The next 2 drawings are blurry. I apologize, but they help give context to the above 2 drawings.
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