Instead of tossing my daily delivery of the New York Post, I decided to turn them into art. My lady Erin gifted yours truly six 18″X24″ canvases for Christmas, a perfect size for collage paintings in a growing series. This set came to be after I spent some time looking at a piece I made back in 2003 (below) over the holidays.
Full process starting now.
The news of the day guides the way, this particular canvas starts with some fear and our president.
Organic collage, spinning the canvas around, all word combinations are made with only loose guidance.
One of my great pleasures dating back to college involves ripping pictures out of text books – one I continue to this day.
Here comes the Vegas imagery, from a Taschen book I picked up while I was in Sweden. Vegas is the location of the sole marathon I have run.
Beginning to play around with some orange, working it around the canvas while re-drawing collaged elements.
A round of yellow keeping with the warm colors, looking for connections.
Imitating a place kicker for slightly better light. Instead of trying to color correct these “moody shots”, I decided to leave them to truthfully show the light in which I was working – I believe it shapes the art and color selections.
There it is, the hand-drawn New York Post logo. Sure, I could just screen the thing, but I enjoy drawing it a bit differently each time.
A morning snap, close to completion, the first time I was able to see how the colors reacted during normal daylight.
A final round of details, right close to the finale.
And… complete. For the record, I chose to date this picture “TWENTY – 10“; we will see if this protocol sticks. I still feel twenty-ten sounds very sci-fi (or syfy if you are up to re-branding efforts that make no sense), but two-thousand-ten seems a bit clunky.
A detail, look, there’s Andy and a man dressed as a woman! Ah, the Factory.
Page Six, Vegas, Flamingo, Carnegie Hall – I am just writing stuff here.
I teach middle school art and I am going to use this as an example of how a painting/collage progresses. Thanks for showing your entire process.