Message Art
I spent the weekend unmasking several drop cloths I’ve been working on simultaneously, so you my be seeing a theme from me the next few weeks while I take on a bigger project.
This was started around August of last year. It’s both subtle and not.
“Tip For Artists” After John Baldessari and William Powhida. 27″ x 30″ Acrylic on Canvas.
On the process, I painted many other paintings on this sheet, using stencils to get the design. The result is determined by what I’m painting for other projects at the time, and the surface is often hidden from me as I work on it (for months), so I’m never sure how it’ll turn out before unmasking it. While it looks somewhat expressionist, it’s kind of something else- part of an overall system where decisions about other things end up determining this (except for the stencilled design, obviously).
Detail shot after the jump:
-JD
d'Arte Board 
April 26, 2011 at 1:49 am
who is Larry?
April 26, 2011 at 2:35 am
I don’t know of any Larry
April 26, 2011 at 9:11 am
lookin to sell yr soul, Karn? i’ll give you a buck for it.
April 26, 2011 at 9:18 am
I guess that makes it worth more than my paintings.
April 26, 2011 at 3:21 pm
at least you have a soul to sell.
April 26, 2011 at 9:14 am
yours is prolly the most practical advice, Hastings. maybe you should publish a book.
April 26, 2011 at 2:23 pm
Like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus
April 26, 2011 at 3:36 pm
yes. only shorter, this piece reproduced as intro, body and conclusion–a one page essay in book form.
April 26, 2011 at 12:39 pm
Like the Postal Service album circa 2003? I obviously like word art and I like that the letters are camouflaged a bit. My eye keeps wanting to crop it in to center the words; especially on the bottom. I would definitely consider buying one of these depending on the message it contains.
April 26, 2011 at 6:46 pm
Overall, the edges are kept a bit long in case I want to stretch it, but it’s easier to store like this. I may actually have to add a bit of canvas to the top to stretch it though. Any messages I do like this would all probably be jerkish mean things. It’s who I is!
April 26, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Well, if you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit down next to me.
April 26, 2011 at 8:16 pm
Good painting. This isn’t at all didactic, therefore I like it.
Except perhaps your introduction, but that doesn’t count.