April 30th / Todays Post(s)
Birthday lettering for a friend
Drawing with collage (figures found in a child’s workbook from the 1940s), 2010
April 28th / Todays Post(s)
Four “dumb” photos taken consecutively on the grounds at CalArts one afternoon in 2011. I have been taking this type of photograph ever since I discovered (I was not) William Eggleston.
April 21st / Todays Post(s)
Traces
2 drawings with collage bits, Oil pastels, China markers, and Prismacolor pencil on black plastic bag, 2012
I-Photo fun, A 1920’s Santa Monica of the imagination: noir, flivvers, and the beach in June. Taken from old photo in restaurant restroom and rearranged, right to left.
April 18th / Todays Post(s)
From my vantage point (which started in the middle of the last century), 21st century graphic design seems to be on it’s way to being bigger and better than it’s even been during my past. Whenever I go into any good art and design bookstore and look at all of what is being produced, I’m not only gratified, but still astonished and still amazed ! There’s no lack of quality in the output of the current generation of designers, typographers, and illustrators.
Bits and pieces left on bulletin boards, carefully rearranged as a “collage.” 2008
Someone’s”thrift store painting” rearranged to become my painting. Wouldn’t it be wonderfully ironic if it ended up back in a Thrift store and is there any reason why it shouldn’t ? No need to answer.
April 16th / Todays Post(s)
One collage, one collage with drawing, and one drawing: some work from the last couple of days. This is how I justify my claim to a “studio practice” of an exit-level-designer as a counter-factual-artist !
April 15th / Todays Post(s)
Collage made from material found in yesterday’s New York Times Sunday Magazines
“Albrecth Durer’s Flying Machine,” My contribution for a CalArts student’s “zine,” 2 color (he picked the colors) silk screen on craft paper, 11 x 17 inches. His project theme was “antimatter.” Never the less, this contraption was powered by an “AntiDon’tMatterOlive,” but by which, amazingly enough, it still worked. There is no record that has come down to us as to what Leonardo thought !
April 12th / Todays post(s)
A set of photos that look good together formally and possibly sequentially, but not really conceptually, without a substantial and largely puzzling stretch of the “screwy”. Yet none of this precludes the “arty”: something to keep in mind in accessing many of these posts! File under: “Looks good and seems to mean…”
April 11th / Todays post(s)
A kind of comic page narrative I made with bits of distorted xerox copies of copies of old engravings. Enlarge to see some really interesting “machine made” textures.
Brooklyn at night with grand daughter and movie shoot down the street, 2012
April 9th / Todays Post(s)
Polaroid sets, pictures of pictures: the bottom one with drawing added. About 150 years ago, this sort of activity was called “history painting.”
March 31th / Today(s) Posts
Thrift store painting cut up and rearranged. Two from one !
Same in 2003
March 28th / Todays Post(s)
Sketch Book drawing with collage, 1999
Old cigar box top.
Some “Western” foreground to an Arizona backyard
March 23rd / Todays Post(s)
Public school # 20, Fort Green, Brooklyn, Prismacolor pencil lettering, 2012
Project for Glasgow based artist Tom Godfrey’s “Marbled Reams.” See www.marbledreams.com for more details and other projects.
March 20th / Todays Post(s)
3 collages made with bits of my lettering (Victorian and deco styles) torn up from discarded Xerox copies, with some rubbings and drawing added. The cross-hatching is from the inside of a “safety” envelope, the kind bills come in.
Sketch book page, two (fast) landscapes.
2 current “collage with drawing” collages. The bottom one uses material from the LA Arts District.
March 16th / Todays Post(s)
A Dutch designer’s project (in the form of a little booklet) about California and the Dutch connection in graphic design. This was my punningly lettered contribution with the following title: “This sad spys’ last double-coded message back to the Dutch just before captivated by the Americans: Blew disguise.”
A couple of illustrations from the 1970s
Winter there and winter here.
March 17th / Todays Post(s)
Illustration, circa mid 60s, the kind of dumb thing one would do (I did) and hang on the studio employes coffee room wall (and I did).
St Patrick’s Day happy meal…with mustard !
March 15th / Todays Post(s)
2 round things, slightly the worse for ware, of local interest.
Sometime in the mid 90s, Smog, a Los Angeles graphic design studio presented their work to the CalArts students. I intended to make an “After-the-fact” flyer for them but never got past the first 3 letters in “Smog” (which were later water damaged by a leaking pipe). I recently found them, added the missing letter, and gave them all to Smog (which is still going strong after these many years).
March 12th / Todays Post(s)
A 1947 painting by an artist who was a “Park Avenue Cubist” and an art critic, both at the time. The title on top gives it away. That’s all I know, other than I would have loved to see it in color, and that everything else about it is just too dumbfounding for anymore words ! You comment.
Subway wall, Brooklyn, 2011
Old stereo card combination and the only reason they are so is I bought them at the same time. I like the way the top photo has almost completely faded to a trace except for the hand coloring. The caption on the bottom reads, “Peasant girl feasting her lover on Rommebunke (Clabber), Norway.” Before and after ?