Jaclyn Bergantino

2014-08-06T12:40:00.000-04:00

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Artist: Jaclyn Bergantino-Kenney

Title: Pieces of Me

Dimensions: 36"x48"

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Price: $850

*available for viewing at Enigma Night Club, St. Petersburg, Fl.

Yayyy!! I won 2nd place at the Enigma Hearts Art contest in Downtown St. Pete!

This was so exciting! Thanks to my boss at Pinot's Palette for signing me up!

The photo above shows me with my winning painting Pieces of Me. The two smaller are details of the painting.

Come Paint With Me!

2014-06-13T10:53:00.002-04:00

Hey all in the St. Pete., Fl area. I am now instructing painting lessons at Pinot's Palette!

'Pinot's Palette is the upscale "Paint. Drink. Have Fun." destination in St. Petersburg where anyone can be a Picasso or a Vincent van Gogh. No art experience required! In two or three hours you can create any number of our festive, whimsical and charming paintings. We'd love to help you celebrate Girls' Night Out, Date Night, Birthdays, Corporate Parties, Bachelorettes, Anniversaries, and offer private parties in our Van Gogh Room.'

Our wine and beer bar is open for every class. We also have kids classes and open studio times so you can come in and paint at your leisure. We'll set you up with the canvas, paint, brushes and directions on how to paint your favorite painting!

And here's the best part!!! Use my Promo Code at checkout (JB5) for $5 off!!! What are you waiting for?!?!

*The giraffe pictured above will be taught on Thursday, 6-19-14

Come Paint With Me!!

Sign up for a class here!

2012-08-04T11:07:00.001-04:00

Still Life

"A still life (plural still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on). With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greek/Roman art, still life paintings give the artist more leeway in the arrangement of design elements within a composition than do paintings of other types of subjects such as landscape or portraiture. Still life paintings, particularly before 1700, often contained religious and allegorical symbolism relating to the objects depicted. Some modern still life breaks the two-dimensional barrier and employs three-dimensional mixed media, and uses found objects, photography, computer graphics, as well as video and sound."-WIKIPEDIA
....BORING! OK, SO NOW THAT THE LESSON HAS BEEN TAUGHT...

These are some examples of still life, acrylic paintings that I've done. Most can be purchased from my Etsy.com shop

Check them out!

2012-08-02T12:36:00.001-04:00

zig zag / chevron

Is anyone else obsessed with the zig zag / Chevron fad like I am?!

On walls, furniture and area rugs... This is so easy to DIY it's ridiculous.. all you need is a steady hand and a ruler to create a pattern (use cardboard or something similar), painters tape, a roller and the appropriate paint.

It's Birthday Season!

2011-10-05T10:31:00.000-04:00

I love October, it's home to Halloween and my birthday. The aging I can do without, but the decorating is amazing

I'm sure I could've made this myself, but I bought this faux raven's feather wreath at Target for only $20. I've used it for a few years now and I love it.

I also really love decorating the interior of your home for Halloween, keeping that haunted house feeling inside as well as outside. Above is a design idea I got from Country Living magazine.

This dinning room table is not only set for entertaining a Halloween party but check out this wallpaper!

How simple and sweet is this idea from Woman's Day Magazine?!

This is also from Country Living Magazine. I really love it and I'm going to try to do it myself. I'll be sure to post a photo of the completed project.

Juice Cleanse

2011-09-18T23:58:00.000-04:00

I've decided to do a cleanse! I bought all organic fresh produce and ingredients and just finished making all my juices so I can start a juice cleanse right away. I'm really excited about it but at the same time I'm a little nervous about feeling tired with my way too busy schedule right now. But I'll have to struggle through it because I need to get healthy fast and hopefully loose a few pounds in the process!

Ingredients list:
Green Leafy green & Root Vegetables: kale, spinach, romaine lettuce, parsley, cucumber, celery, green apples, lemon juice, carrots, beets

Almond Water: almonds, dates, vanilla extract, sea salt, filtered water

I'm also doing two Detox juices using lemon, cayenne pepper, filtered water, and pineapple, pears, ginger, mint

There is also an Aloe Vera Water for a system "flush", Coconut water for hydration, and I need to drink at least 8 glasses of water a day.

My goal is to last the whole week..
wish me luck!

Felice Varini

2011-08-29T16:34:00.000-04:00

Felice Varini is a Swiss artist who was nominated for the 2000/2001 Marcel Duchamp Prize, known for his geometric perspective-localized paintings of rooms and other spaces, using projector-stencil techniques. According to mathematics professor and art critic Joël Koskas, "A work of Varini is an anti-Mona Lisa."

5 Open Ellipses. Urban painting of Felice Varini, in Metz, 2009.

Felice paints on architectural and urban spaces, such as buildings, walls and streets. The paintings are characterized by one vantage point from which the viewer can see the complete painting (usually a simple geometric shape such as circle, square, line), while from other view points the viewer will see ‘broken’ fragmented shapes. Varini argues that the work exists as a whole - with its complete shape as well as the fragments. “My concern,” he says “is what happens outside the vantage point of view.”^[1]

He was born in 1952 in Locarno, Switzerland and lives in Paris. -info taken from wikipedia

How cool is this?!? Maybe I'll try it... lol anyone got a building I can paint?!

Buy the book:

ABSTRACT

2011-08-25T13:50:00.000-04:00

You can find these pieces and more in my shop.

Abstract art used to be an appreciated, but not understood form of art to me. I've been dabbling in abstract lately and I've really started to grow a love for it. Particularly line drawings or paintings.. work that tends to be visually and technically very delicate and intricate. Art that when you look at, you know that it endured a lot of time spent and focus.

Personally, I like to create art that people can identify with, appreciate, and most importantly... want to buy! I recently stumbled upon this website. It has a lot of really cool abstract art and prints for sale by different artists.

Homework assignment! Everyone try to recreate their favorite 2-D abstract art.. use any medium & any size. Email your work to me & I'll post them here where we can all take a vote.

Self portriats

2011-08-19T15:58:00.001-04:00

Self portraits are so intimidating to me. And why do I always seem to look so sad?! Do I look like that everyday!?! I sure hope not!

Whenever I was assigned a self portrait in art school I cringe. First off, the idea of a self portrait is so vague. There are really two kinds of self portraits. One is the actual, literal translation.. a portrait of yourself. "Great, I have to put myself out there on display for the entire room to judge", I'd think to myself. Self portraits are very intimate... when they're done correctly. Another version of a self portrait is something that represents yourself? There is not one thing that represents me. I am so eclectic and all over the place that no one thing can define me.

This painting was done with oils and on a very tight time frame. I am still not completely finished with it.

Here are some recommended reading materials on the art of the self portrait:

Zen Buddha

2011-08-17T08:41:00.001-04:00

I did this when I first moved from New Jersey to Florida to fill an empty wall above my couch. I paired the white acrylic paint with the chalkboard paint for their differences in texture. The chalkboard paint is flat (chalky) while the acrylic is slightly glossy.

Siddhārtha Gautama ( Siddhattha Gotama) was a spiritual teacher from ancient India who founded Buddhism.

I do not practice Buddhism but I am very interested in religions in general. I am a huge believer in Karma.

The Sanskrit word Karma (or kamma in Pali) literally means action. In Buddhism however, karma mainly refers to one's intention or motivation while doing an action. You get what you give.. what goes around comes around. Do onto others as you would like others to have done onto to you.

Details:

Medium: White acrylic paint & Black chalkboard paint on Stretched, Gallery Wrapped Canvas

Size: approximately 3'x3'

Artist signed and dated

Purchase it Here

Interested in learning more about Buddhism and Karma?

I recommend the following books:

Eat Pray Love

2011-08-16T17:08:00.001-04:00

I got inspiration to do this for a class assignment. The class was called Concepts and Practices and the assignment was a semester long map incorporating different levels of my life and experiences throughout the semester. I read the book Eat Pray Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert and fell completely in love with it.

One of the physical levels of this piece is the background. The background is made up of all the receipts I collected during the semester that were school related expenses. I used a water-based sealer/glue and finish on it covering a large piece of poster board. I then sketched out a quick outline of a woman's body and took quotes from the book that I loved and used them to fill in and outline the contours of the figure. I used gouache to paint the flowers.

Some of my favorite quotes from the book: "We loved each other. That was never the question. It's just that we couldn't figure out how to stop making each other desperately, shriekingly, soul-punishingly miserable..."

"...beauty attracts beauty.. but we are not what the other one needs.."

"You should never give yourself a chance to fall apart, because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead."

"Soul mates come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave. "

"You're wishin' too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be."

"Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings and one you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay a float on top of it. If you don't, you will leak away your innate contentment. It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to it's good attainments."

"To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life."

"Fear. Who cares?!"

"Do not wait to be rescued by a prince. Be the administrator of your own rescue."

buy the book: buy the dvd:

But I'd trade all of my tomorrows for one single yesterday

2011-08-14T11:54:00.000-04:00

"Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose,
Nothing, that's all that Bobby left me, yeah,
But feeling good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues,
Hey, feeling good was good enough for me, hmm hmm,
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.

La la la, la la la la, la la la, la la la la

La la la la la Bobby McGee." -Janis Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970)

Painting Details:

24"x36"
back stapled, ready to hang -gallery wrapped
artist signed

Medium: Acrylic paint on stretched canvas
colors: black and white

varnished for protection

Buy it Here

What does everyone think of this piece? It's one of my favorites.

Today's Song: Amy Winehouse's, "Tears Dry On Their Own"

2011-08-13T13:30:00.002-04:00

This painting was done in a rush in 2008 for a show that was rapidly approaching. I would still like to add more detail to this.. maybe some color.. or text.. what do you think? It's currently on sale in my shop.

Details:

18"x24"
back stapled, ready to hang -gallery wrapped
artist signed
colors: black white gray
varnished for protection

I'm listening to Amy Winehouse's Back to Black album right now... you can buy it on Amazon by

clicking on this album icon:

"We don't usually hear about the average person who dies from drugs or alcohol; it's only the person who has risen to fame who draws the attention.

There are many people suffering from addiction all over the world; no matter the cause of their substance abuse, all should be met with compassion and understanding. More foundations, such as the Amy Winehouse Foundation, are desperately needed to save individuals headed down the road to an untimely and tragic death." - K.C. Dermody Yahoo! Contributor Network – Fri, Aug 5, 2011

Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) joins Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain in the eerie 27Club. All great musicians who died at age 27.

The Strange Series

2011-08-12T16:41:00.001-04:00

It's finally available.. I'm slowly adding pieces to The Strange Series. All original art, prints available for only $15.00

Check it out on Etsy

Yeahhhh Buddy!

2011-08-12T11:38:00.004-04:00

While watching the Jersey Shore last night (don't judge me!) I had a great idea for my first DIY project to show you all... and it's so simple. It was right in front of me. On my t.v., I have on display, these old Italian postcards from Rome, Italy that I framed. These postcards were from The Museum of Life, Roma. I used inexpensive wood frames to adorn the postcards featuring the Colosseum and one of those cute European cars. Very cute, very easy, very rustic Italian. Yeah Buddy!!

Waiting for Tomorrow Robs You of Your Dreams for Today

2011-08-11T17:04:00.001-04:00

Waiting for tomorrow robs you of your dreams for today. So true. This gets me motivated every time I see it. I got this quote from the book "Deal Breakers: When to Work on a Relationship and When to Walk Away" by Bethany Marshall.

Simple black acrylic on white canvas.

Like the painting? Purchase this or something like it at:

My Etsy Shop

Want the book? Buy it here:

SOLD!

2011-08-10T10:06:00.000-04:00

These three paintings were just sold to "The Hutto" and I will be dropping them off today. Thanks again Tom!

He is a part of a comedy troop called The Sideshow Rejects. They film comedy skits, random reality comedy, and preform stand up. You can find them all around the Tampa Bay area.

Click here to like him on facebook!

I'm on Twitter!

2011-08-09T23:41:00.000-04:00

What a technologically productive day! Click here to follow me on Twitter!

Finally.. a Facebook Fan page!

2011-08-09T22:18:00.000-04:00

I've finally set up a facebook fan page! Click here to "like" me on facebook. I'll be adding photos of my work (like the one pictured above) as well as tips, tricks, and helpful hints on how to create certain items.

I'll also be running promotions on my work periodically as well as upcoming events so keep checking in for details!

CUSTOM PORTRAITS

2011-08-09T19:06:00.000-04:00

Custom portraits are an amazing gift idea! I can create a beautiful, professional portrait of your loved ones in a variety of mediums from a photo.

(Pencil, colored pencil, pastel, charcoal, oil paint.)

At only $60 per figure for pencil... you won't find anything at this quality level for that price!

Prices vary depending on size and medium.

Email me at JBergantino@ymail.com for a quote. Please include the photo you wish to recreate and a simple description as to the size and medium you are interested in.

During the process of creating these portraits, I send you photos of progress via email for you to review.

Custom portraits can be done for your loved ones of all ages, as well as wedding photos, family portraits, couples, pets, homes, etc..

All finished products are sprayed with a fixative which prevents smudging and yellowing.

New Series Coming Soon!

2011-08-08T12:42:00.000-04:00

So far I have about 15 of these.. all different colors, sizes, shapes, and design.
Medium- some are done with pen, some with colored pencil.

I need to find a good (and cheap!) company to make prints of all of these so I can sell them on my Etsy shop (www.JaclynBergantino.Etsy.com)... any suggestions??

What does everyone think of the new series idea?

Technoculture Project

2011-02-01T23:34:00.000-05:00

The following scanned images are pages from a personal diary dated 1905/6.

Sunday, Bloody, Sunday

2009-11-22T10:49:00.000-05:00

I have a ton of work to do today! (...and that's a good thing!) But I would loveee a nice Bloody Mary!

This 16"x24", acrylic on canvas is back stapled and ready to be hung. It is artist signed on the bottom, front, right hand corner. It has been sprayed with a non-toxic
varnished for protection.

"Bloody Mary" is for sale right now, in my etsy shop for only $55. check it out here: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=32451333

*I always offer free shipping inside US.

Black Bear

2009-11-19T16:19:00.000-05:00

This charcoal was a custom order request that I think I'm stuck with now. The person who requested this piece hasn't been in contact with me to claim him :( ...so he's up for sale in my etsy shop for $35.

This is a charcoal on heavy duty paper, measuring 19"x24". It's an original piece, you won't find another one like it. I have signed it on the bottom, front, right corner. It is also sprayed with non-toxic fixative to prevent smudging, yellowing, and fading.

This was sold*

"forks n knives, baby"

2009-11-18T19:11:00.000-05:00

This is my first "Painting a Day" project. When I don't have a custom order to do, I am going to try to get a painting or drawing finished each day. I think it will keep me motivated and it will definitely build my inventory.

The title, "forks n knives, baby" is an inside joke. It came from one of my adorable little cousins, Colleen... we don't know where she picked it up, but she was running around the house saying, "forks n knives, baby" ... well it sounded more like this, "foks n knives, babay". Both hysterical and a little scary. :)

This is on sale now on my etsy shop: http://www.JaclynBergantino.Etsy.com
$10 each or all three for $25.

Each painting measures 3"x9". Acrylic on canvas paper. Can either be kept together on the same paper or separated. Can either be framed or mounted on wood.

Custom orders and prints available. Message me for details.