John Hiemstra Creative » Sky Paintings

Sky Paintings 2005-2009

John — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:04:27 +0000

The body of fine art work I was developing independently of commissioned artwork in San Diego before moving to Pittsburgh in the fall of 2009. Most of the skies and architecture are inspired from my travels in Tuscany and especiallly Florence with Heather

Archive: 2009 Art Show, Little Italy, San Diego

John — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:14:33 +0000

The next in a series of reprints from my old Blogger blog
Original post date: July 2009

Spent a couple hours of this gorgeous San Diego Sunday in the studio working on the sky paintings for this week, here’s a quick picture:

The show of my paintings with Joseph Bedford’s custom furniture opens this Friday at Joe’s Little Italy space Bedford Built. Our reception is part of the first “NoLi Notte” or “North Little Italy Nights, which is a monthly art event that’s emerged out of Kettner Nights.

The first round of “Little and Large” shows open at other spaces that night in Little Italy, but my wife Heather will be joining Joe and I in his space at 2360 India Street to debut her LifeChain project.

If you haven’t seen the LifeChain series of videos we’ve done of Heather in her studio, I’m putting the first episode here below; I’ll be posting parts 3 and 4 tomorrow on Heather’s new WordPress blog at www.heather-reilly.com/sdmetalsmith. Check it out!

Link to my original post: Sky Painting Show opens this Friday July 10

Sky Painting Show at Coalesce

John — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:17:02 +0000

In all the rush of the decision to move and the finishing of San Diego projects and commitments, I forgot to post any pictures of the show of my sky paintings that continues at Joe Bedford’s Coalesce Gallery on India Street in Little Italy.

Paintings by John Hiemstra, furniture by Joe Bedford

John Hiemstra and Joe Bedford at Coalesce Gallery, Little Italy

I’ll have to go down and shoot some more, it looks like my files from the day of the show didn’t make it from camera to computer. (You can see more of this series of paintings on the Art page of this site.)

Getting to paint: a holiday unto itself!

John — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:43:57 +0000

I spent a few hours each of the July 4 weekend working on the sky paintings for this Friday’s reception at Coalesce, furniture designer Joseph Bedford’s gallery in Little Italy. Here’s a couple more pix I didn’t put up on the murals and faux blog, even if these paintings germinated in scenic painting with its faux style techniques and the ever popular sky mural as a ceiling and surround technique.

coliseum paintings in the loft

July 5in the studio downstairs-- thnx Jen!

almost ready to unwrap

I've been wanting to properly finish these little ones for a long time.

Updates for July 5, 2009

John — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:34:00 +0000

thanks for checking out my work and kind comments!! #follow these artlovers @haziethugqueen @Memaloose @LittleSweetOne @iKeralot #
more sky painting--the dragon's turn, two years later http://bit.ly/YXNq4 show opens 7/10 in #SanDiego Little Italy NoLi nights #lt #art #

Return to Sky Paintings: The Dragon’s Turn

John — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:48:27 +0000

Finally got back to work on “St.George and the Dragon”, rolled up since ArtWalk 2007, over two years.

At last, its the dragon’s turn!

St.George and the Dragon, getting ready for July 10 opening!