Jamie Lawson Art + Design http://blog.jamielawsonart.com Mon, 12 Nov 2012 01:55:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Albedo working 1 http://blog.jamielawsonart.com/albedo-working-1/ http://blog.jamielawsonart.com/albedo-working-1/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:55:41 +0000 JL http://blog.jamielawsonart.com/?p=719 Some fancy Instagram shots of works-in-progress:

Jamie Lawson
Albedo: Recent Paintings

Opening Reception:
May 11, 2012 7pm
James St. North Art Crawl

Sylvia Nickerson’s Open Studio
126 James St. North,
Hamilton Ontario

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Albedo: Recent Paintings

Opening Reception:
May 11, 2012 7pm
James St. North Art Crawl

Sylvia Nickerson’s Open Studio
126 James St. North,
Hamilton Ontario

2nd showing in late May. Details to come.

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1. Work on one thing at a time until finished.
2. Start no more new pieces, add no more new material to old pieces.
3. Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
4. Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
5. When you can’t create you can work.
6. Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.
7. Keep human! See people, go places, drink have a coffee if you feel like it.
8. Don’t be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only.
9. Discard the Program when you feel like it—but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.
10. Forget the pieces you want to paint. Think only of the piece you are painting.
11. Paint first and always. Reading, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterwards.

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Alvarius B – Baroque Primitiva
Artwork & Design: Kristin Anderson


Atriarch – Forever the End


Deafheaven – Roads to Judah
Cover & insert art: Reuben Sawyer / Package design: N. Steinhardt


Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972
Cover artwork: MIT Museum / Artwork layout: David Nakamoto


Locrian – The Clearing
Art: Brian Ulrich / Design: T. Hannum


Oikos – Ecotono
Illustration: Reuben Sawyer / Design: Utech


Mamiffer – Mare Decendrii
Artwork: Aaron Turner


Mike Patton – The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Artwork: Martin Kvamme


Prurient – Bermuda Drain
Art Direction: Dominick Fernow / Photography: Ari Marcopoulos / Design: Nikolai Saveliev


Servile Sect – Trvth
Artwork: Kevin Gan Yuen


Wolves in the Throne Room – Celestial Lineage
Cover art: Alison Scarpulla / Design: Aaron Turner

Honourable Mention (including EPs & 7″s):

Architeuthis Rex – Urania
Altar of Plagues – Mammal
Ash Borer – Ash Borer
Belong – Common Era
Blut Aus Nord – 777 Sect(s)
Cultus Sabbati – Woden’s Galder
Der Blutharsch and the Infinite Church Of The Leading Hand + Aluk Todolo – A Collaboration
Doctors – You’re a Fucking Pussy
Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1
Faust – Something Dirty
Grails – Deep Politics
Graves & Orchestra Pits – Graves & Orchestra Pits
Horseback/Locrian – New Dominions
Krallice – Diotima
Leviathan – True Traitor, True Whore
Locrian – Flingco 7″
Mamaleek – Kurdaitcha
Manorexia – Dinoflagellate Blooms
Master Musicians of Bukkake – Totem Three
Miracle – Fluid Window
Odonis Odonis – Hollandaze
Oureboros – Dreaming in Earth, Dissolving in Light
Oranssi Pazuzu – Kosmonument
Secret Chiefs 3 – Saptarshi/Radar 7″
Tartar Lamb II – Polyimage of Known Exits
Tombs – Path of Totality
Ural Umbo – Delusion of Hope
White Hills – H-p1
Zombi – Escape Velocity

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Listening to: Delusion of Hope by Ural Umbo (Utech Records)

Cover photography by Alexander Binder, design by Utech.

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]]> http://blog.jamielawsonart.com/zoo-2/feed/ 0 The Fabulous Night Panther http://blog.jamielawsonart.com/the-fabulous-night-panther/ http://blog.jamielawsonart.com/the-fabulous-night-panther/#comments Sun, 29 May 2011 05:05:57 +0000 JL http://blog.jamielawsonart.com/?p=511 The Zoo show’s coming down to the wire, especially if we want to get framing, so I’m glad this piece seems to have quickly come pretty close to (if not all the way to) final… Think I’ll refine the jaguar/panther’s face a bit & then call her done.

The initial stencil cuts:

Squeegee mayhem:

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Song: Abydos by Sun City Girls / Length: 2:27 / Track: 2

Book: Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco / Page: 227 / Line: 2

“I work within the environment of the worship of the Beast…”

In honour of how badass the quote is this week I decided to totally forgo legibility in favour of chaos!

Below is the letter/colour breakdown – each square corresponds with one of the letters in the phrase (for example: W=purple; O=white; R=green; K=yellow &c.). In the final art I try to represent the effect that I perceive from the combination of letters. The initial letter of each word having a pronounced sway over the rest, the secondary colours become hazy echoes.

]]> http://blog.jamielawsonart.com/52311-52411/feed/ 0 MF Dooom http://blog.jamielawsonart.com/mf-dooom/ http://blog.jamielawsonart.com/mf-dooom/#comments Mon, 02 May 2011 05:02:19 +0000 JL http://blog.jamielawsonart.com/?p=501 Some great metal-faced printing blocks I found at Wayzgoose. Obviously, it was the Ohio Chick Hatcheries Association seal that I was after.

Listening to:
The Invisible Mountain by Horseback

]]> http://blog.jamielawsonart.com/mf-dooom/feed/ 0 Bicycle Utopia Achieved http://blog.jamielawsonart.com/bicycle-utopia-achieved/ http://blog.jamielawsonart.com/bicycle-utopia-achieved/#comments Sun, 01 May 2011 05:01:07 +0000 JL http://blog.jamielawsonart.com/?p=498 C’est fini.

Prints available here – grab one in support of The Ride to Cure Cancer!

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