JLM Art and friends having fun in PA, 2019
Read MoreSummer Fun - Painting
Had a painting session with a couple of awesome girls! Their pieces came out great and we cannot wait to paint again. Check out the, in-progress pictures - A&A 🌹JLM Art on Google Photos.
Art work is not for reproduction. You may find the tutorial to these paintings on Youtube by searching, The Art Sherpa.
After signing photo shoot, Angie and Ava, 2019
Andy Warhol Museum Trip March 2019
One of the first tourist attractions we visited upon moving to Pittsburgh was The Andy Warhol Museum. I had acquired a bunch of paint and paint brushes over the years. After Joy got home she didn’t have any canvas so she used an Amazon box and painted her first picture of a cassette tape. This is where art began for her. She uses it now as her personal medicine but had never discovered how much she liked it until she visited Andy Warhol’s museum. Now periodically we return and bring contributors with us to the same spot where it all started from. This trip we brought Drawing by Dimitri along. Below are some of the pictures from the March 2019 visit.
The Cassette Series
A cassette was one of the first things Joy Justine drew to paint. She then wanted to learn how to reproduce the same image over and over again. The first time she transferred her sketch to paint it was onto a cardboard box. (She later learned to cut the box apart and use pieces of it for tests but it’s a curve for a new artist). One of the reasons the cassette tape was one of Joy Justine’s first projects is because music has always been very important to her. As she was growing up and listening and recording music on cassette tapes to play on her Walkman. She says, “When I felt most alone, I always felt better with music, especially tapes I could record.” - Joy Justine. She had to use a cardboard box because she had recently visited the Andy Warhol Museum where she discovered that she wanted to try and paint, his work inspired her so much and she had no canvas yet so she used what she had. Once she got canvas and mastered how to transfer the image she began making backgrounds. She then thought “Let me see if my friend’s will make them with me.” So friends that came by the studio would paint a background and then she would transfer the cassette image and it would be painted. There is a total of seven single cassette tape paintings and one painting with four cassettes on an 18 x 24 inch canvas. You can purchase a set of four which is how the artist imagined them to be displayed or one that you might like for your own music studio, man-cave, or garage. Great gift for DJ’s and lover’s of music.
“When I felt most alone, I always felt better with music, especially tapes I could record.”