I have several works in an upcoming group show in Brooklyn. The exhibition has a theme: Horses. Theme shows are sometimes iffy, but I have confidence this will be very good. These two mixed media monotype/paintings in progress are part of several final pieces I’m working on for this show. The first one is in a very unresolved stage.
A while ago an artist friend, Brian Piana took a masking tape piece I posted on Tumblr and turned it into a quick Gif animation. (I chose not to post the gif itself because it’s jarring on the same page as the Gif below.)
That, and some other artists I’ve seen on Tumblr playing with animation have made me want to learn about it. As such, I’ve been experimenting in my free time with some basic tests.
This is the most successful so far, made of 9 individual 4.5″ x 6″ cards of masking tape.
I still have a lot to learn to help myself automate and simplify the process so that basic animations look more smooth and don’t take an inordinate amount of time, but I have some ideas I’m slowly working out that I’ll share as they’re ready.
The idea is to create the animations, then bind the individual frames into their own books to get the experience of sequence in 2 different states.
-JD
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:
Page 2
“Line”
Page 3
“Angle”
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A few exercises I did to practice brush-work.
“Compound of 5 Tetrahedra,” 8″ x 6″, acrylic on paper
“Great Ditrigonal Icosidodecahedron” 8″ x 6″, acrylic on paper
-JD
This is a new set I made to turn into a book. Not yet ready to bind.
-JD
I was supposed to scan something new to post here last night, but then I didn’t. Luckily I always have a bunch of masking tape to post.
Oh, and this isn’t masking tape, it’s a quick painting to be used to make other stuff.
-JD
I forgot that it was Monday last night, so instead of posting new stuff you get some masking tape. Some of these pieces have since been cut down to use in geometry collages.
-JD
Cover
Page 2
“Line”
Page 3
“Angle”
Page 4
“Triangle”
Page 5
“Square”
Page 6
“Pentagon”
Page 7
“Hexagon”
Page 8
“Hepagon”
Page 9
“Octagon”
Page 10
“Tetrahedron”
Page 11
“Cube”
Page 12
“Octahedron”
Page 13
“Dodecahedron”
Page 14
“Icosahedron”
Page 15
“Hexagonal Prism”
Page 16
“Cuboctahedron”
Page 17
“Truncated Octahedron”
Page 18
“Rhombicuboctahedron”
Page 19
“Triakistetrahedron664″
Page 20
“Pentagonal Icositetrahedron”
Page 21
“Rhombic Dedecahedron”
Page 22
“Square Gyrocupola”
Page 23
“Triaugmented Hexaonal Prism”
Page 24
“Hebesphenomegacorona”
Page 25
“Stella Octangula”
Page 26
“Square Antiprism”
-JD
Same series as last week. Set 2 of 10.
Cover:
Page 2:
“Line”
Page 3:
“Angle”
Page 4:
“Triangle”
Page 5:
“Square”
Page 6:
“Pentagon”
Page 7:
“Hexagon”
Page 8:
“Hepagon”
Page 9:
“Octagon”
Page 10:
“Tetrahedron”
Page 11:
“Cube”
Page 12:
“Octahedron”
Page 13:
“Dodecahedron”
Page 14:
“Icosahedron”
Page 15:
“Hexagonal Prism”
Page 16:
“Cuboctahedron”
Page 17:
“Truncated Octahedron”
Page 18:
“Rhombicuboctahedron”
Page 19:
“Triakistetrahedron”
Page 20:
“Pentagonal Icositetrahedron”
Page 21:
“Rhombis Dodecahedron”
Page 22:
“Square Gyrocupola”
Page 23:
“Triaugmented Hexagonal Prism”
Page 24:
“Hebesphenomegacorona”
Page 25:
“Stella Octangula”
Page 26:
-JD
This is a painting that has gone through a few variations over the past 8 months. I posted the first stage of it here : http://darteboard.com/2012/05/10/bskip-big-sketch-in-progress/ last May. I had a conversation with our own Toni Tiller about it and she exhibited once again her insight with a suggestion concerning the editing of an unresolved area of this abstracted design. The painting successfully translated form, color, value through rhythm and movement but became confused and clunky in the ‘head’ area. I repainted that territory and pulled it into a more tangible architecture. Its done, finally.
Pheromone 2013, 2013, oil on canvas, 38 x 62″
This weekend I finally finished all the interior pages for a set of 10 art books I’ve been plugging away at all month. I still have to finish the covers and bind these, but I am pleased to be able to show these off for the first time.
Here is set 1 of 10. (I’m skipping straight to the Polygons this week because I showed off the basic set of Polygons last week.)
Page 10
“Tetrahedron”
Page 11
“Hexahedron” (aka Cube)
Page 12
“Octahedron”
Page 13
“Dodecahedron”
Page 14
“Icosahedron”
Page 15
“Hexagonal Prism”
Page 16
“Cuboctahedron”
Page 17
“Truncated Octahedron”
Page 18
“Rhombicuboctahedron”
Page 19
“Triakistetrahedron”
Page 20
“Pentagonal Icositetrahedron”
Page 21
“Rhombic Dedecahedron”
Page 22
“Square Gyrocupola”
Page 23
“Triaugmented Hexagonal Prism”
Page 24
“Hebesphenomegacorona”
Page 25
“Stella Octangula”
Page 26
This brings us to the end of the book. What follows is the beginning of the book, which was duplicative of last week’s post, so relegated to the end.
Page 2
“Line”
Page 3
“Angle”
Page 4
“Triangle”
Page 5
“Tetragon” or Square
Page 6
“Pentagon”
Page 7
“Hexagon”
Page 8
“Hepagon”
Page 9
“Octagon”
In researching these, I learned a lot about geometry that had been forgotten in the long years since high school. I chose the selection and order that I did to try to maintain some of the logic that exists within the mathematics behind these forms. I’m sure that understanding this logic would help viewers appreciate what is being presented, and I’m tempted to go into depth on the issue, but this is art, not a math textbook, and at a basic level I think I prefer knowing that the viewer can find the information out for themselves or simply appreciate them as they are.
In future weeks, hopefully I’ll be able to post the covers and photos of finished books with the list of pages.
-JD
As I noted last week, I’ve been working a lot with 3D shapes. In that post, however, I leaped straight into the middle of the organized fashion I’m trying to think about these things. Before getting there, it’s necessary to understand 2D shapes (and probably before that, lines). 3D shapes are more interesting though.
So I give you, set 1 (of 10) of Polygons, 3-8 sides (all pieces are 6 x 4.5 inches):
Triangle:
Square (aka Tetragon):
Pentagon:
Hexagon:
Hepagon:
Octagon:
The great thing about these is that with 10 sets, I can milk this type of post for 9 more weeks if I want to!
For most of these I intentional skewed the alignment of the shapes because I reject your paltry notions of a proper frame of reference.
-JD
I am currently building a set of art books based on polyhedra, or 3D shapes (made of polygons). I picked this shape for today at random, but in the coming weeks I’ll be posting a lot of these. As I post them I’ll try to explain their usually confusing names to help give a glimpse of the more logical framework they exist in.
This week’s sample is a case in point:
“Truncated Octahedra” 6″ x 4.5″ acrylic on masking tape, quilted into pattern
This shape is a “truncated octahedron.” It is created by modifying a uniform octahedron, that is an 8 shape form where all the sides have the same dimension. Here is a picture of an octahedron from Wikipedia:
If you lop off (or truncate) this shape’s pointy corners (the parts in red) you wind up with the shape I’m working with. Ta da.
Here are the remaining pieces:
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A bit prosaic. Oil on paper, 22″ x 16″
The last few weeks Toni and I have been working on a quick project to make a book centered around one of her dreams.
We knocked out most of it in a weekend (which is incredible), then detailing took another 2 weeks of intermittent work. Here is the original dream we used
These are the back and front cover (The Front is on the right). The book is 14 x 11 and an inch thick.
Page 1 (hand applique by Toni) and 2, “I don’t care what John Irving has to say”
Page 3 and 4
Page 5, “Bears make terrible pets” and 6, last week’s Bear at a Polka Party.
-JD
After finishing my part of the tape show I took a bit of a vacation. To Skyrim, a needlessly long video game. I don’t say this with pride, but because only through honesty can I hope to overcome my weakness. The layoff was ultimately necessary, though, to recharge myself and ensure that I can approach new art projects fresh. But it has left me rusty.
To get back on the horse, I sewed this large quilt of 3″ x 3″ squares of paintings filed in my “green” drawer. This may become raw materials for another piece, but as yet I’m undecided. I’m re-acquainting myself with processes I haven’t used in a while and will let the work dictate where I go next.
“Green Squares (possible WIP)” 36″ x 36″ acrylic paintings quilted together
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With this piece, based on an image of Toni Tiller (supine on a trampoline), I approached the treatment a little differently than the recent paintings on paper I’ve been doing over the past year. I struggle with an objective analysis here, but the controlled application of paint , conscious distortion and drawing I see as a reaction to the graphic quality of the photo I worked from.
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Trampoline, oil on paper, 22″ x 30″
I’m working on a painting now that isn’t at all there yet. Hence, I’m posting detail shots of the surface. Wetting the appetite?
oil on canvas
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Another in a series of self portraits
oil over monotype on paper, 20″ x 16″
With the new show now up I thought it was a good time to showcase some of the first masking tape pieces I made.
This piece is actually the first. I had been using tape for a years but as I used it more I started growing a large ball of the used stuff and lamented the loss of the work done on the tape that was thrown out. At times 3/4 of the painted surface of a piece could be thrown out. This was my first attempt to save a few pieces.
This was followed shortly by
In these I was trying to highlight some of the traits of these tape scraps by isolating them on the white backgrounds of the paper. After these I realized that it was necessary to fill the pages with tape if I wanted to use a significant portion of the leftovers I had. I still attempted to create compositions on the fly as I mounted the tape to paper though. Now, to simplify the process of unmasking pieces, I attach the tape to paper in simple compositions and remix them later as collage or quilts as necessary. Maybe I’ll show the differences between those processes later.
-JD
-JD
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