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
Archive for Painting
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 ssstephgInternational 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:
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
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″
New Tape
Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, colors, masking tape, Painting, recycling on March 20, 2012 by jdhastingsI’m in between finishing projects now, so here’s some recent used masking tape from paintings.
-JD
I Like Cake
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, cake, expressionist nude, figure, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, paper, printmaking, sex, sweets, Tom Bennett on March 15, 2012 by Tom BennettI admit it. I’m a sweet junkie. I was brought up in an old school household with an Irish Catholic mother with a thing for chocolate and just about every other great sugar treat. Her mother had ancient recipes for a slew of desserts from fried donuts to tollhouse cookies, to brownies you want to shoot up in your veins. The tradition made it to my oldest sister Debbie, who had a passion for baking pies and cookies and cakes while I would assist, at the age of 5, by licking the mixing bowl of uncooked batter and butter frosting. Invariably it would be pasted all over my face and dungarees. Jeans were called that back in the 18th century.
I buy a chocolate cake and tell myself I’m ok with my high cholesterol and I store it in what I pretend are places my girlfriend can’t find and of course she finds it. It’s right there on the top shelf of the fridge or in the bread box with an electric arrow pointing at it. Cake is love. It’s sensual. So is sex. Therefore, cake is sex.
eat it.
Tom Bennett
Perfectly Good Cake, oil over monotype on paper, 18″ x 14″
Masking Tape Remixes
Posted in Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting, sewing on March 13, 2012 by jdhastingsI may have an opportunity to show some of my masking tape pieces in the future. This weekend, I decided to prop a few up with some quick editing to make them a little more display ready. These are the results:
Nude as Land Mass
Posted in Art, art on paper, Drawing, figurative, gesture drawing, mixed media, nude, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, Drawing, figure, mixed media, nude, Painting, Tom Bennett, work on paper on March 8, 2012 by Tom BennettMy cat’s sick, my car’s in the garage, I’m doing commercial work and I’ve got several unfinished paintings in a state of mess in my studio, so I’m posting this simple direct mixed media sketch. My alma mater won at the Garden in OT, though, so that mitigates something. I think.
Folded Figure
India Ink, benzine ink and graphite on paper, 11 x 17
WIPWIPWIPWIPWIPWIPWIP
Posted in Art, art on paper, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, Work in Progress, work on paper with tags Art, expressionist nude, figure, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, wip, Work in Progress on March 1, 2012 by Tom BennettUnfinished study oil over monotype on paper, 14″ x 20″
WIP
Posted in abstract, Art, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, Work in Progress, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, expressionist nude, figure, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, paper, printmaking, Tom Bennett, wip, Work in Progress on February 23, 2012 by Tom BennettThis is a bad photo of a work in progress. I’m going south for a couple of days.
Tom Bennett
WIP, oil into monotype on paper, 18″ x 24″
Nod to Basch
Posted in Art, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags Art, expressionist nude, figure, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil on paper, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett on February 16, 2012 by Tom BennettHere I’m publishing the 1st stage – an original monotype – and the finished overlaid painting. Looking at the two images now I can see what choices I would make differently. The energy of the 1st state has been redirected distinctly.
I’m working on some monotypes dedicated to Jeremy Lin, the phenom of the NY Knicks. I hope to post the results later.
Tom Bennett
Nod to Basch, 1st stage, monotype, 18″ x 28″
Nod to Basch, oil over monotype on paper, 18″ x 28″
Shortcuts On The Pony Express
Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, for lack of reason, mail, Painting, postcard, steph gerolimatos, stephg, things to do or not, word on February 12, 2012 by ssstephgHey guess what. Yes. I made yet more postcards this week. Here are a few of them.
Well, take care of yourselves. No one else is going to do it for you.
Loveandabominablehope,
-Steph
They Might be Giants
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, gesture, monotype, narrative art, Painting, printmaking, technique, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, expressionism, figure, giants, james ensor, monotype, Painting, paper, printmaking, Tom Bennett on February 9, 2012 by Tom BennettUnless you’ve been having a pedicure under a rock the last few days, you’ll know the football NY Giants beat the NE Patriots to win the superbowl for the 2nd time in 4 years. Without going into an analysis of the season and the game itself and bore most of you, I’ll just say, as a New Yorker, this team is cardiac-arrest-fun with its habit of coming back from the dead and pulling out a win at the last minute.
Mario Manningham came up with, arguably perhaps, the game-changing catch along the sideline. The play was expressionist in its execution.
Tom Bennett
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Manningham, monotype, 20′ x 16″
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A Bunch of Thes
Posted in Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting on February 7, 2012 by jdhastingsStill very much work, still very much in progress.
These will not be paired with “Ends.”
-JD
Sketches In The Closet
Posted in Art, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags 1994, abstract solutions, Art, closets full of moths, Painting, sketch, steph gerolimatos, stephg, ways to keep going on February 4, 2012 by ssstephg
about 20 x 30 inches
oil and pastel on gessoed paper
More old work from long, long ago or about the same time as these.
about 30 x 20 inches
oil, nails and eggshells on gessoed paper
I’m still never quite sure where to put anything. And so, it just keeps piling up.
From a long way under,
-Steph
The Fat and the Thin in the Corner
Posted in Art, art on paper, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, technique, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, expressionist nude, figure, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, paper, printmaking, Tom Bennett on February 2, 2012 by Tom BennettMore paintings made from monotypes. These two pieces I finished a couple of days ago and I’m of two minds about them. The first, In the Corner, may be a tad too defined in the figure. I’m not sure I’m pushing the abstraction enough. The second painting I’m on the fence about as well. How’s that for mixed metaphor cliches?
Tom Bennett
In the Corner, oil over monotype on paper, 28″ x 20″
The Fat and the Thin, oil over monotype on paper, 20″ x 16″
Woven Watercolor Cross
Posted in Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting on January 31, 2012 by jdhastingsLast night instead of preparing art for today I ironed shirts. I have no regrets, but I also have nothing to post. I don’t know if I’ve ever posted this before.
“Woven Watercolor Cross” 2005 It’s like 30″ wide or something. Watercolor soaked through canvas, woven.
This is a woven piece made out of a dropcloth that I used a lot of watercolor on. I then flipped the dropcloth, where you could see where the watercolor soaked through. Toni hates me for this because it’s so light sensitive I won’t allow it out of my closet.
-JD
Hidden Defect and Lauren’s Underbelly
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, technique, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, art on paper, expressionist figure, expressionist nude, figure, mixed media, monotype, nude, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett on January 26, 2012 by Tom BennettTwo more explorations in the current series. The one called Lauren’s Underbelly got its title from the happy little fact that the underpainting/monotype was a portrait of a pregnant woman. She apparently gave birth to this painting. It’s a girl!
Hidden Defect, oil into monotype on paper, 22′ x 16″
Lauren’s Underbelly, oil into monotype on paper, 18″ x 12″
Ectoplasmic Monotype/Painting
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, technique, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, ectoplasm, expressionist nude, figure, kodak, mixed media, monotype, nude, oil over monotype, Painting, Photography, printmaking, Tom Bennett on January 19, 2012 by Tom BennettThis piece has a photographic feel and Kodak is on its death bed. That’s a sad thought.
Ektachromoplasm, oil over monotype on paper, 20″ x 16″
Fair Use
Posted in abstract, Art, Toni Tiller with tags abstract, Art, Painting, Toni Tiller on January 18, 2012 by Toni TillerIt’s been a long time since I have taken any photographs of people, and when I do they are usually people I know very well, but a recent interaction made me wonder what the fair use of pictures of strangers would be. I don’t take pictures for advertisements, or to sell, so it’s not something I ever really think much about but since the question came up I threw it out to my good friends on Twitter and Matthew Best was kind enough to provide me with this very useful article which answered all of my questions and then some. Looks like as long as I am in public and not invading a private space then I am in the clear.
In the mean time you should check out some of his work here. Good stuff.
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