More sticky note collages

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Here are some more sticky note collages. I think I like these and my trash collages more than the collages I sweat and fuss over. A good lesson there.

Kennedy prints!

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

A doodle from an inspiring Quarantine Book Club last night with letterpress printer Amos Kennedy, Jr. (@kennedyprints on Instagram.)

He’s currently renovating an old “Pile of Bricks” in Detroit to be a printmaking studio and a place for people to learn how to print.

I’m really into his books right now:

Here’s just a tiny gallery of some of my favorites of his:

Search for him on YouTube and enjoy — there’s a whole documentary about him called Proceed and Be Bold.

Sleep Dirty is a series of zines named after something my 5-year-old said about not taking a bath. (See the back cover of Sleep Dirty One.) The first spread of issue one was made by my 7-year-old, but then he abandoned me to go do something he found more interesting, so I made the rest of the zine about him in revenge:

And here is Sleep Dirty Two, which started out with a Squatty Potty add to make the boys laugh and then became something more serious about art and digestion and waste (and butts):

The third issue of Sleep Dirty will be published on Father’s Day.

Renovation

Sunday, June 7, 2020

Here is a house for Meg that doesn’t seem to fit into the series, perhaps because it wasn’t a “new build,” but a “renovation,” additions tacked onto an old black and white photo…

Hockney’s Pearblossom Highway

Friday, June 5, 2020

Here is David Hockney’s Pearblossom Highway, 11-18 April 1986, #2. Several people mentioned that they thought of Hockney when they saw my “Houses for Meg” — a huge compliment to me, as Hockney is one of my favorite artists. His “joiners” are my favorite works of his: huge photo collages made up of hundreds of individual 4×6″ prints.

In this video Hockney talks more about the piece and its origins:

(I had no idea it was originally commissioned by Vanity Fair to illustrate Humbert Humbert’s drive across the southwest in Lolita.)

Here’s a 1988 feature of him returning to the site and showing how he took the shots:

Oh, one fun thing: when you zoom in on the collage the Getty website serves up a bunch of different chopped up .jpegs. I downloaded them and put them in an ImageQuilt and hit shuffle: