Leviathan League | Levi Hastings Illustrator, Visual Artist, Graphic Designer

LeviathanLeague.com has been preserved and archived for use in Donna Grimet's Art Online course as part of the required reading. Ms. Grimet comes to the university from a successful career as an art director for Humongus, where she gained notoriety for her work promoting a Batman themed online apparel store. Her best known assignment was a viral web campaign for MoonAtMidnight.com that garnered a record response in the first 2 months of the campaign. Batman t shirts are hugely popular and the competition is fierce in this mainstream marketplace. Her success lead to the Micrometer Blue Ribbon award along with several other commissions and awards. Her class is always oversubscribed, so students are advised to enroll early since class size is limited. The full reading list is posted in the Art Department's webpage.

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Levi Hastings is a freelance illustrator, visual artist and full-time graphic designer. This was his website for several years. The domain registration expired and the new owner of the domain decided to keep the spirit of the original site alive by creating one page which shows an edited version of Levi Hastings work.
Content is from the site's 2010-2014 archived pages.

Levi Hastings has quite a presence on the web. Just google his name.
His current site is found at: http://www.levihastings.com/

 

Levi Hastings 

I'm an illustrator, visual artist and graphic designer in Seattle.

My work has been featured in The Stranger, Portland Mercury, City Arts Magazine, Willamette Week and Hello Mr. among other publications..

My paintings have been exhibited frequently in the Seattle area and along the West Coast,  most recently at LTD Gallery and True love in Seattle and Modern Eden in San Francisco. 

My work revolves around suspicious characters, talking beasts, fallen empires, foreign adventures, aquatic exploration and historical scandals. Raised on a steady diet of dinosaurs, comic books and National Geographic, I developed a taste for bizarre and ridiculous things. It only seems natural for me to make art about them. Ink and watercolor are my weapons of choice. I find that bold, sloppy color combined with fine lines and ink washes result in surprising effects. These mediums demand a lot of flexibility, which keeps me from taking my subjects or my process too seriously.

From tattooed bar brawlers to wigged aristocrats, foreign streets to fashion footwear, my work reflects a lifelong obsession with high and low culture, tied together with fine lines and loose watercolor.   

CONNECT

I'm always interested in freelance assignments, commissions, collaborations and exhibitions. 
Please contact me with any inquiries at levi.hastings@gmail.com

SELECTED CLIENT LIST:

The Stranger | Portland Mercury | City Arts Magazine | Hello Mr. | Willamette Week | Three Dollar Bill Cinema | Big Sky Documentary Film Festival |  Digital Americana Magazine | Wolfram Productions | The Better Bombshell  | Rock, Paper, Scissors Games

 

 

 

BLOG POSTS

New year, new paintings

 

 

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Opening of Wunderkammer show at True Love Gallery | July 2012

SELECTED SHOWS

2014

• Baggage Claim | Solo Show | Poco Wine + Spirits | Seattle, WA | June 2014
• Super Kaiju Monster Show | True Love Art Gallery | Seattle, WA | June 2014
• Winter is Coming: A Game of Thrones Tribute Show | LTD Gallery | Seattle, WA | March 2014
• Ex Libris | Axis Pioneer Square | Seattle, WA | March 2014
• Nostalgia | Modern Eden Gallery | San Francisco, CA | February 2014

2013

• Wanderlust | Modern Eden Gallery | San Francisco, CA | December 2013
• Pictures Worth A Thousand Words | LTD Gallery | Seattle, WA | November 2013
• Saturday Morning | LTD Gallery | Seattle, WA July-August 2013
• Grand Opening Show | Axis Pioneer Square | Seattle, WA | August 2013
• Over The Line: A Coen Brothers Tribute show | LTD Gallery |  Seattle, WA | June 2013
• Natural Science  | True Love Art Gallery | Seattle, WA | June 2013
• Mint Condition2 Comic Book Show | LTD Gallery |  In conjunction with Emerald City Comicon | Seattle, WA | March 2013
• Telephone | Group Show | Bherd Studios | Seattle, WA | March 2013
• Dystopia 2013 Group Show | True Love Art Gallery | Seattle, WA | Jan 2013

2012

• Speak Now! A Marriage Equality Group Show | Gay City Health Project | Seattle, WA | November-December 2012
• POP! 2: First Anniversary Group Show | LTD Gallery | Seattle, WA | November 2012
• Triumphs and Tragedies Group Show  | Tasty | Group show | Seattle, WA | November 2012
• B: A Tribute to B Movies | LTD Gallery | Seattle, WA | October 2012
• Waterline: Solo Show | Poco Wine Room | Seattle, WA | July 2012
• Wunderkammer | Group Show | True Love Gallery | Seattle, WA | July 2012
• Between Heaven and Hellboy | Group Show | Urban Light Studios | Seattle, WA | July 2012
• Whiskey and Watercolor | Solo Show | Georgetown Liquor Company | Seattle, WA | July 2012
• Creatures Featured | Group Show | Tasty | Seattle, WA | July-August 2012
• Portraits of Pride | Group Show | Gay City Health Project | Seattle, WA | June-July 2012
• Hometown Sideshow | Solo Show | American Pie Bakery & Cafe | Seattle, WA | June 2012
• Heroes, Vixens and Villains at Tasty | Group show | Seattle
• Sound Spirits | Solo show | Seattle, WA | March–April 2012
• Beards, Broads & Beasts | Solo show | Calamity Jane's | Seattle, WA | January 2012

2011

• "Environs" Group show curated by pun(c)tuation at Art/Not Terminal Gallery | August 2011
• RAW: Natural Born Artists | Seattle Showcase | June 2, 2011
• Julia's of Wallingford | Solo Show | Seattle, Wa | May 2011
• Zero Zero Salon | Solo Show | Seattle, WA | February 2011

2010

• Rock the Terminal | Sub-T Gallery @ Art/Not Terminal |  Seattle, WA | December, 2010
• Tattoo Show (2nd Place winner) | Starkweather Arts Center  Romeo, MI  | July 2010

 

 

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