Hamilton Art

Hopscotch! Feel the freedom your young body felt again?

Girls hopscotch in blues and yellows. Oil on stretched canvas.

How does this make you feel? Do you feel joyous, can you feel the freedom of your young body? Two girls play hopscotch. Tones of blue and yellow. Oil 20x20” for sale.

Hopscotch!

Feel the kid’s body you once had, and how free it felt to move?

Oil on stretched canvas, 20”x20”, for sale

Working again on oil paintings from old images. Why is this mother so worried? I wonder what her worries might be. Has her husband left her to support the kids alone? Yt family, of older son, mother, young child, maybe 10 yo girl? Tones of peach/green/brown. 20”x20” oil on stretched canvas

Working again on oil paintings from old images. Why is this mother so worried? I wonder what her worries might be. Has her husband left her to support the kids alone?

20”x20” oil on stretched canvas

Have you ever had a conversation with an autistic person? The inside person, the outside person, which is most real? Oil in stretched canvas, yt woman sits on white couch with red pillow and red flowers. She wears orange. For sale. I believe this is 16x20”.

Have you ever had a conversation with an autistic person? The inside person, the outside person, which is most real? Oil in stretched canvas, yt woman sits on white couch with red pillow and red flowers. She wears orange dress. For sale. I believe this is 16x20”.

Two white women in 1918 stroll down the street wearing masks against the flu. (Not in very protective masks. We’re much luckier today to be able to find ones that work.) But it shows that protections/mitigations don’t have to ruin your life. 24”x30” oil on stretched canvas. Colours are brown, green, red, peach, off-white.

Two yt women in 1918 stroll wearing masks against the flu. (Not in very protective masks. We’re much luckier today to be able to find ones that work.) But it shows that protections/mitigations don’t have to ruin your life.
24”x30” oil on stretched canvas, by yours truly like all my entries here.

In 1969, Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro founded the Feminist Art Program at CalArts, challenging male-dominated art education. It empowered women to explore identity, collaboration, and political expression—reshaping the art world from the ground up. #ArtHistory

How delicate and lovely.

Sixties hair; who doesn’t love it? Those beehives, man, they were something. Yt mother and two girls done in mostly yellows and greens. Checkered wall in behind.

Sixties hair; who doesn’t love it? Those beehives, man, they were something.

Oil on stretched canvas, uncertain of size off the top of my head.

This is certainly what being disabled feels like. Always left out.

Woman crouching, done in orange with deep blue floor and turquoise wall. Cold wax and oil, 2024, 16x20”. DM for purchase.

Even though the world has been pitched into war, a Sunday painting, one that perhaps expresses where we are now:

Do you feel endangered when you see this? I do.

What’s happening here? Two women in bathing suits, one probably helping the other to learn how to swim? Do you remember learning to swim, when someone else had to hold you up? Oil on board, 20x20"

What’s happening here? Two women in bathing suits, one probably helping the other to learn how to swim? Do you remember learning to swim, when someone else had to hold you up?

Oil on board, 20x20”. In tones of muted pinks.

Lovely.

"The primary theme that drives my art practice today is celebrating the beauty of black childhood." This striking Gustav Klimt-inspired painting is by Maryland based artist Tawny Chatmon.
#WomenArtists #FineArt #BlackArtists #ArtHistory

The Redemption by Tawny Chatmon
@tawnychatmon.bsky.social

Acrylic, unsure of size. Man in orange shirt on green bkgd, with beard and purple hair. Tilt of head.

Acrylic, unsure of size. Man in orange shirt on green bkgd, with beard and purple hair.

UGH

It’s Sunday painting time! Here it is: How does this one make you feel? I can’t imagine, really, the danger of a kid feeding a kangaroo, even a young one, but I personally would have loved the actuality. Heart sigh. 18x24” oil on stretched canvas

It’s Sunday painting time! Here it is:

How does this make you feel? I can’t imagine, really, the danger of a kid feeding a kangaroo, even a young one, but I personally would have loved the actuality. Heart sigh.

Feel free to share with credit or DM for purchase.

18x24” oil on stretched canvas

I love this painting.

This graphic has a light blue background with a rainbow going diagonally through the center. The text, "Celebrate Pride Month with One of Us Global Foundation." The One of Us logo, a heart surrounded by a pair of hands, is at the bottom right corner.

This slide has the same blue background and a large red square in the center. Above the large square is a small light blue rectangule with the text, "Marsha P Johnson 1945 - 1992." The large red square hascthe text, "Transgender Activist & Stonewall Icon. A founding figure of the modern LGBTQ+ movement, Marsha was a fearless advocate and drag performer. She helped ignite the Stonewall uprising in 1969 and co-founded Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) to support unhoused trans youth." The bottom right shows a portrait of Marsha P Johnson, the bottom left shows the One of Us logo.

This slide has the same blue background and a large orange square. Above the square is a light blue rectangle with the text, "Frida Kahlo 1907-1954." The large square includes the text, "Artist & Queer Icon. Frida’s deeply personal paintings explored pain, identity, and sexuality. Openly bisexual, she challenged gender norms and celebrated indigenous Mexican culture, leaving behind a body of work as radical as her politics and personal life." The bottom right shows a portrait of Frida Kahlo, the bottom left shows the One of Us logo.

This slide has the same blue background and a large yellow square. Above the square includes the text "Audre Lorde 1934-1992" on a light blue rectangle. The yellow square has the text, "Poet & Intersectional Feminist. Audre Lorde described herself as a “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” Her writing and activism focused on the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class—empowering marginalized voices and calling for radical self-love." The bottom right shows a portrait of Audre Lorde, the bottom left has the One Of Us logo.

Happy Pride Month to the LGBTQIAP+ community. Throughout Pride month we want to highlight extraordinary LGBTQIAP+ historical figures who align with our values of love, hope, courage, and wholeness.

Sunday painting! Remember the 1950s, the “ladies” out walking their fanciful dogs? (Not where I lived, I can assure you. Where I lived, dogs usually worked at pulling up long garden stakes before going awol dragging these coiled metal snakes along behind them.) 16x20 oil on stretched canvas.

Sunday painting! Remember the 1950s, the “ladies” out walking their fanciful dogs? (Not where I lived, I can assure you. Where I lived, dogs usually worked at pulling up long garden stakes before going awol dragging these coiled metal snakes along behind them.)

16x20 oil on stretched canvas.

Thanks!

I think the orange one.

Love his work.

Portrait of a white woman head and shoulders looking outwards with head tilted, with short red hair and wearing a low cut top with patterns

"I paint with the stubbornness I need for living..." Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) French painter #WomensArt

Portrait of Otelia Cromwell, the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. from Yale University, 1926, by contemporary US painter Jennifer Packer #WomensArt

Included in Jordan Casteel’s first institutional solo exhibition at the Denver Art Museum between 2019 and early 2020, “Mom” is a poignant tribute to the artist’s mother, Lauren Young Casteel. Painted in 2013, at the dawn of Jordan’s practice, it demonstrates the rich, sensual painterly language for which she has achieved widespread critical recognition. With intuitive brushwork and deep, warm colors, Casteel captures a moment of peaceful solitude, registering the play of light and shadow across her mom’s face, clothes and hands. It is a rare example of a female portrait in Casteel’s early practice; a testament, perhaps, to the inspiration her mother had on her outlook. As President and CEO of the Woman’s Foundation of Colorado, as well as a noted philanthropist and activist, Lauren Young Casteel became the first Black woman in the state to head a foundation. Saturated with glowing familial warmth, this work is a tender celebration of the woman who helped to shape the artist’s social and artistic values. Indeed, her mother’s devotion to social justice resounds throughout Casteel’s artwork, which focuses on highlighting figures who might otherwise remain unseen. Casteel recalled, “The thing that my mother always instilled in us coming of age was that it’s not necessarily about being the ‘granddaughter of’ or the ‘daughter of’ … it’s about living the values through the work that you’re doing … Long before I became Jordan Casteel the painter, I was Jordan Casteel who understood the value of everyday stories and people and creating voices for people and room for people who might otherwise feel that there’s no room for them.”

“Mom” by Jordan Casteel (American) - Oil on canvas / 2013 - Cantor Arts Center (Stanford, California) #womeninart #art #mother #oilpainting #womanartist #womensart #femaleartist #ArtText #JordanCasteel #Casteel #CantorArtsCenter #fineart #mom #womenartists #AfricanAmericanArt #AfricanAmericanArtist

These Black Artists Are Defining Contemporary Art Today | TheCollector From Amy Sherald to Mickalene Thomas, these Black artists are redefining the Black body, identity, and sexuality in contemporary art today.

These may not strictly be museum pieces at the moment, I don’t know, but here are a few of my favourite contemporary artists:

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I accidentally touched this painting once, gesturing to show someone something about it. Eek.

It changed my paintings from predominantly nude figures to clothed figures when social media got so prudish. Most of my inventory, though, is still figure drawing/painting. I will always love rendering live figures. ❤️

Uploaded another oil painting @hamiltonart.bsky.social. Have a gander!

Three het couples dancing, done in blues with diamond shapes on the walls. 24x30"

Another lovely oil painting from last year. 24x30”. Please feel free to share with credit.