September 8th / Todays Post
A murky drawing with floaty collage bits combined in a carefully structured composition to make a compilation of no real intent, other than formal aesthetic play. Enjoy or poo-poo. 2017
September 4th / Todays Post
End of Summer 2017 Labor Day
” Morro Bay Boatyard ” ” Oil Workers Sign on Union Hall in Taft, California ”
August 29th / Todays Post(s)
2 sketch book pages, 22 years apart. 1995 and 2017, still less than more comprehensible.
August 28th / Todays Post(s)
2 large silkscreen posters for LA Machine Projects projects, 2012 and 2015
August 17th / Todays Post(s)
2 Xerox prints from the mid-1970s. Xerox’s of 40 years ago had a grainy gray quality that was ideal for hand coloring with Prismacolor pencils. A title, a signature, and a date made each one into a little mono-print. In the “Tools of the Trade” print, the lines fore and aft are from each tool depicted, including cuts for the X-Acto knife and dried adhesive from the glue stick. Also in the grouping is an early Pentel Pen, and the ubiquitous, all purpose Rapidograph Pen
August 1st / Todays Post
The dean of so many great Detroit photographers: +Bill Rauhauser 1914-2017+ An exhibition poster we did in the early 80’s, using his photo of his camera, tilting it on a angle and incorporating it’s little arrows and tic marks into my then current “connotative typography” practice. This was also the reason for the mix of bold and medium letters within the words and blocks of words, meant to reflect the idea that a photographic likeness is composed of the grouping of lighter and darker shapes and forms into a fixed order necessary to make it a “readable” image.
July 27th / Todays Post(s)
Found child’s drawings, circa 1920 (?) “Clang” “Fire Fire”
“Help” “You now him So do I now him” “Sh. Sp. Cos.” Text and image: pure poetry and perfect compositions !
July 12th / Todays Post(s)
2 recent “collaged” drawings with fairly plain formal and textured moves and vaguely suggestive “circusy” meanings.
July 7th / Todays Post(s)
Some current small sketch book pages, 2 different 4 color ball point pens plus 3 colored pencils.
June 23nd / Todays Post(s)
2 consecutive landscape drawings in current 1-a-day, black and white sketch book.
June 21st / Todays Post(s)
An enigmatic drawing from 2013 sketch book, aside a current photograph, as a 2017 Summer Solstice post, with a mainly sunny color similitude, for a forced metaphor.
June 19th / Todays Post
Conventional vernacular styled lettering and application (silver on white wall) for the newly renamed (after retiring president Steven Levine) CalArts Cafeteria, 2017
June 11th / Todays Post(s)
1921 Laszlo Molholy-Nagy collage at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, followed by photograph of three bits of tape found on sidewalk in front of CalArts theater building door. Two small masterpieces in different contexts, one created and one arbitrary, showing a perfect spacial relationship between 3 geometric forms.
June 4th / Todays Post(s)
Top collage made with tissue paper drawings and a few bits and lines, followed by second collage made with more conventional found material: from current one-a-day sketch book, 2017
May 31st / Todays Post
“The Deerslayer’s Ablutions Before His Overnight Beside the Glimmerglass” Collage, 2017
May 30th / Todays Post
2006. Large European size poster (artwork) for a Mozart festival in Venice. The title heading comes from the playful moniker a still very young Mozart used while performing there.
Original drawing and color version of the lettering used on parts of the project.