My Friends’ Scott and Amanda’s daughter, Chloe, recently sent me an artwork that she drew for me.
In return, I painted these 2 unicorns rearing at each other to put in a short art book.
-JD
Archive for Painting
Art Exchange
Posted in Art, J. D. Hastings with tags Art, Drawing, Painting, unicorns on August 27, 2013 by jdhastingsConceptual Requiem for a Ninja Yogi Dream
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, awesome, Drawing, dreams, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, gesture, gesture drawing with tags abstract, Art, Drawing, dream, expressionist figure, expressionist nude, figure, ink & pencil, mixed media, ninja, Painting, paper, sketch, Tom Bennett, Toni Tiller, yoga on August 22, 2013 by Tom BennettI’ve returned to a collaboration with Toni Tiller, making conceptual images illustrating her dream narratives. She posts her dreams at www.http://lastnightsdreams.wordpress.com/page/2/.
This is a conceptual mixed media sketch on paper, one of a few I’ll make for her dream, posted on 3/17/13, “Doing yoga with a ninja”.
Tom Bennett
ink, alcohol-based ink, graphite, gouache on paper
Is This The Greatest Artwork Ever Created?
Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, Collage, great art, greatness, history, humanity, Painting, textile art on August 20, 2013 by jdhastings
Probably not, but MAYBE.
-JD
Power Outage Redux
Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, Drawing, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, mixed media, nude, Painting, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags abstract, Art, art on paper, Drawing, expressionist nude, figure, mixed media, Painting, paper, Tom Bennett on August 16, 2013 by Tom BennettIt’s been so long since I’ve posted here I can’t even be sure I can identify myself. It’s like returning to my bedroom after sleeping in the woods for a few months.; it’s dark in here. A Power Outage happened in my brain, a cognitive outage. This is a return to a medium I’ve been fooling around with the last few years; a mix of alcohol-based ink, graphite, india ink and gouache.
Tom Bennett
Power Outage Redux, 2013, ink, graphite & gouache, 8 x 11.5
New Tape
Posted in Art, Collage, Painting with tags Art, Collage, Painting on August 13, 2013 by jdhastingsGearing up for a new project I needed to make some new materials in a specific color scheme. Hence, new tape.
-JD
The Artistic Process
Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting, Textile Art with tags Art, Bart Strike, J. D. Hastings, Painting, so tired, textile art, tired on July 2, 2013 by jdhastingsI commute to San Francisco from Berkeley each day, which means that the BART strike going on right now is ruining my mornings and evenings. It’s hardly the worst problem in the world to have, but navigating the commutes to and from work yesterday was physically and emotionally exhausting. Despite generally being out of it last night, I forced myself to make something to post today. Hence this light-hearted art book (not yet bound).
In order to make the pieces with the letter tiles, I have to arrange them all on sheets of masking tape, hence that reference.
-JD
Something, Anything
Posted in Art with tags Art, J. D. Hastings, Painting on June 18, 2013 by jdhastingsI doubt anybody comes here anymore, but on the off chance you exist here is something to enjoy while I take a few months to get good enough at lino-cutting to have something to post.
-JD
Polygons and Polyhedra Book 10
Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, art books, Collage, geometry, J. D. Hastings, math, Painting, quilt on May 28, 2013 by jdhastings
Polygons and Polyhedra Book 10, a set on Flickr.
Book 10 of 10 (I skipped a few sets since the last one I posted). All pages are 6″ x 4.25″, multi-media quilt.
Horse Show in the works
Posted in abstract, abstract expressionism, Art, art on paper, contingent art, design, events, exhibits, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, gesture, mixed media, monotype, oil painting, Painting, printmaking, Tom Bennett, Work in Progress, work on paper with tags abstract, andalusian, Art, figure, group show, horse, horse race, monotype, oil on monotype, oil painting, Painting, paper, printmaking, tabla rasa, Tom Bennett, wip on May 23, 2013 by Tom BennettI 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.
Line Animation
Posted in animation, Art, Collage, Painting with tags animation, Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting on April 30, 2013 by jdhastingsA 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
Polygons and Polyhedra Set 5
Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, Collage, geometry, J. D. Hastings, math, Painting, Polyhedra, textile art on April 23, 2013 by jdhastingsI’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”
Continue reading
New Shapes
Posted in Art, Drawing, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, Drawing, geometry, J. D. Hastings, math, Painting on April 2, 2013 by jdhastingsA 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
Alphabet Book
Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags another bad creation, Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting, textile art on March 26, 2013 by jdhastingsThis is a new set I made to turn into a book. Not yet ready to bind.
-JD
Maintaining
Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting on March 19, 2013 by jdhastingsI 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
Tape
Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting on March 5, 2013 by jdhastingsI 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
Polygons and Polyhedra Set 3 of 10
Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, Collage, geometry, J. D. Hastings, math, Painting, Polyhedra, textile art on February 26, 2013 by jdhastings
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
“Polygons and Polyhedra” Book 2 of 10
Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, math, Painting, polygons, Polyhedra, quilting, textile art on February 12, 2013 by jdhastingsSame 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
Pheromone 2013: Revisiting a Painting
Posted in abstract, abstract expressionism, Art, design, expressionism, expressionist, figurative, gesture, nude, oil painting, Painting, Tom Bennett, Toni Tiller with tags abstract, abstract figure, abstract figure painting, Art, expressionist figure painting, expressionist nude, figure, nude, oil painting, Painting, pheromones, Tom Bennett, Toni Tiller on February 7, 2013 by Tom BennettThis 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″
“Polygons And Polyhedra” Set 1 of 10
Posted in Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, Painting with tags Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, math, mixed media, Painting, polyhedron, sewing, textile art on February 5, 2013 by jdhastingsThis 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.)
Cover
Polyhedra
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”
Polygons
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
First Principles
Posted in Art with tags Art, Collage, J. D. Hastings, math, Painting, polygons, textile art on January 29, 2013 by jdhastingsAs 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
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