Beauty Series
Image #3

practice drags to become....

Beauty Series
Image #1

 Wooden Box Project 2014

M. Jane Hastings

“Art is not separate from my life, it sits beside me everyday”

 Full Time Woman, Mother, Artist, Wife, Performer, Educator and

Lifetime Surrealist

I have been an artist my entire life but it is only within the past 15 years that I began teaching art. In many ways I have found this educational experience to be as fulfilling and satisfying as making art. Like a journey to a foreign land I have a map (a lesson plan) but some of my most exciting lessons have been off the beaten path. I enjoy the daily challenges, the adventures and the growth that comes from being an artist and a teaching artist. Art can embrace change, reflect our interior world, challenge ideas and look forward while valuing the past. It is this journey of discovery and growth that keeps my creative suitcases packed to overflowing.

Work in progress

2015
working in progress #1
Brainstorm 

2015
Work in progress #2
Brainstorm 

Baseball Diary

The Spring of 2016 William Fuller told me he was going to create a series of Anthologies to celebrate Baseball Diary, not an easy task. This small press publication 82-91 was important in my development of a collage language. I am now planning to scan and document all of the covers and the content art...a trip down memory lane! Enjoy
(Updated 2020 with completed Anthology covers too) 

Volume 3 #8
1984
Spaceball Diary 

Volume 3  #31
1984
Gone Fishing 

Volume 3 #15
1984
Hotdog!

Set Me Free Mixed Media Resin Collage Painting (Part 2!) Timelapse Speed...

Clear Epoxy Resin for paintings and artwork

A view of the California art scene

This really captures a lot of the emotions and feeling I had/have connected to the CA art scene and why I  picked the West Coast as my creative home...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/15/alicia-mccarthy-jenny-sha_n_5578761.html?utm_hp_ref=arts&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000027

Berlin – Hilma af Klint: “A Pioneer of Abstraction” at Hamburger Bahnhof Through October 6th 2013

Berlin – Hilma af Klint: “A Pioneer of Abstraction” at Hamburger Bahnhof Through October 6th 2013

Hilma af Klint - Abstrakt pionjär

and another article regarding this amazing very modern artist

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/arts/artsspecial/Giving-a-Swedish-Pioneer-of-Abstract-Art-Her-Due.html?smid=pl-share

Swedish Pioneer

tp://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/arts/artsspecial/Giving-a-Swedish-Pioneer-of-Abstract-Art-Her-Due.html?smid=pl-share

Debbie Arnold- Acrylic Texture with Plastic Wrap

Max Ernst on a New Form of Natural History

FRED TOMASELLI

HOW TO: Max Ernst Texture with Plastic Wrap

Outside the Box 2014

Once again I'm participating in the Outside the Box artist challenge.
This time we received 6 10x10 plywood panels to create our art piece.
I did a totem based on Alice in Wonderland

Early White Rabbit 

Early Alice

Early Cheshire Cat 

Two Great Shows at the Crocker

So happy over winter break Jack and I got to visit the Crocker Museum and see two great shows.

Blast from the past

Magpie News 1994...

Exploring

Took and old canvas with some pencil work on it and started exploring with color, collage and line...don't know where it going yet, but I'm liking the journey.

Blue Cafe for Jack

Started this project August 2013, laying out shapes and colors...

Cutie Pies in the Sky

Completed piece for Savannah summer 2013

Birthday Flowers

My sister Beth sent me lovely flowers for my birthday and my friend Simone also gave me flowers so I decided to combine them in a vase a make a painting in a day...and I did. Of course I continued to add details over the next 2 months. The finished product was given to my parents for Christmas this year.

Interview with Julie Heffernan

http://hyperallergic.com/73463/beer-with-a-painter-julie-heffernan

Wonderful interview with painter Julie Heffernan

Cutie Pies in July

...it's coming a long!

Late Breaking Noose: "A Play About Snakes"

Another great piece by the artist Judith Schaechter

Late Breaking Noose: "A Play About Snakes":  click to enlarge! This piece took nine months to make…like being pregnant. But with snakes. Why nine months?   Well, its ...

The Stars Align - Mixed Media painting in motion

Artist Jesse Reno

Really interesting artist, working both with figures and abstract

Building a painting artist Jesse Reno
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnQL5Xf0zvk#at=222

ARTIST STATEMENT

teesha's circus: Mermaids Galore

teesha's circus: Mermaids Galore: I just have to show you all the work that is being created in our Mermaid Circus Online class !  I am amazed and astounded at not only the ...

Cutie Pies in the Sky Update July 2013

Still building the layers of this piece, a little larger format than previous works and it takes a while to see all of the forms and creatures. Need to adjust a few colors and get more movement.

Cutie Pies in the Sky

Cutie Pies in the Sky...for my daughter Savannah. Here is the piece so far.

Quilt Show Part II

The Quilt Show Feb 2013

Drawing with Auntie

During my visit, I got to spend some time drawing and creating with my sister's two wonderful kids...lots of imaginative fun...

FT at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art

In Feb I went to visit my parents in VA. Mom and I spent a day touring the Virginia Museum of Fine Art. They have a wonderful space and some great pieces. This is one of my favorite by the artist Fred Tomaselli,
entitled Woodpecker (2008). The collage and painted details are a true inspiration.

FT at the Brooklyn Museum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7W9JZbKV2Y

here on earth: escape

here on earth: escape: "reality doesn't impress me.  i only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, i escape, one way or ...

A Painting for Savannah

My daughter asked me to create a painting for her room so, I'm using some of her favorite colors as well as Japanese influences and my own crazy style can't wait to see what this becomes...

Nipples to the wind

Painting Project #2, "Nipples to the wind" progress overview as of January 30, 2013.



Overview January 2013