Painting titled "target-canvas-right…" by James Jp Hawkins, Original Artwork, Ink

target-canvas-right-3.jpg (1972) Painting by James Jp Hawkins

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Original Artwork Painting, Ink / Pastel / Stencil

Artworks classification

Original Artwork

Original Artwork refers to any work that is considered authentic and not a copy or imitation of the original works of an artist. Original artwork can be any type of painting, sculpture, performance, or other media. There are many types of original media. Mixed media includes oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings. For workshop paintings that bear evidence of master craftsmanship, this attribution must be further qualified. While they may be less valuable for different reasons, reproductions and copies have had a tremendous impact on our experience. They reach a greater audience than originals and act as a tonic against commodification. Original Artwork could also refer to the first work, which is always preceding all others. It could also refer to a prototype or a model from which other works can be made. Each work bears great similarities to the original.
Dimensions Height 120in, Width 120in
Categories Paintings from $20,000 Abstract

Back in the early '70s, I was creating art pieces on raw canvas framed only with a redwood bender board at the top. I would sew in weights at the base of the canvas so the canvas would drape nicely.
I created these 10' canvases on the floor of my studio using anchored strings for circles starting with graphite, pastels & Conte' crayons & using straight edges for other geographic shapes. For other curved shapes, I would create the initial outlines, i.e., "under-sketch" using bender board & tape.
Following the completion of the "under-sketch" artwork, I would collect newspapers & magazines & tear them into piles of color & black & white pieces.
I used solvents to transfer the inks to the canvas rubbing them with a spoon.
During this period I was exploring balancing geometry & primary colors while continuing my overall math based signature based upon 3 & its derivatives.

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Ink

A strongly tinted liquid or paste that is used to mark paper or other printable materials. The design is done manually with a slab, feather, brush, or straightener.

Painting Pastel

Pastel is an instrument widely used in plastic arts. Taking the form of a colored plastic stick, it is composed of pigments, a filler (chalk or plaster) and a binder (gum arabic, oil, wax). We mainly distinguish fatty pastels (oil or wax), dry pastels, whether soft or hard. Invented in Europe at the end of the 15th century, this tool was very quickly used by great portrait painters of French royalty, such as Charles Le Brun, Rosalba Carriera, Jean Siméon Chardin or Maurice Quentin de La Tour, who will be considered the "Prince of pastellists", thanks to a method of fixation of which only he knew the secret.

Pastel

Drawing made with a colored stick. It consists of pigments, a charge and a binder. A distinction is made between dry pastels (soft or hard) and fatty pastels (oil or wax).

Stencil

The stencil is a technique that allows you to reproduce a pattern using a pre-cut plate that is superimposed on the support.

Technic Painting

Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.