Part of today’s work. I actually finished the CMYK, but neglected to take a photo before I dashed out of the shop to refuel with coffee and snacks from the new kabob place. After laying down the yellow layer and still having that shape look completely strange, I had a temporary moment of panic. Had to keep telling myself that the image was originally from a pack of Polaroid film that I’d left in my car for months and that it was unnatural in color to begin with. Printed the black and everything looked alright again. At least a lot more like the mock up. Which by the way, looks like this–

This mock up was in no way complete before I started printing today and I’ve since made some changes. For instance, the whole image is shifted more towards the top left corner. I was originally going to encorporate a landscape element to this print (similiar to the lithographs I did last year), but in the interest of time, I came up with something else that actually makes more sense. I spent the better part of my evening working on these last remaining layers. They will include –

- chine-collé graph paper (I think I am slowly giving up on this remaining completely archival. I think I crossed the boundary when I used the scraps from that old dictionary…)
- portions from an old math textbook
- scribbling! preferrably from a soft lead pencil, enlarged a bit so you can see the anomalies from paper grain
- portions from notes I’ve taken while at MICA. perhaps litho notes, specifically. I still can’t decide whether or not it’s too cheesy…

Could potentially be another twelve color job. I’m becoming very indecisive about the colors. I keep wanting everything to be gray or a variation of gray, but I know I’m just defaulting to the first thing that comes to mind. Which happens to be gray. And boring. Might go with a pastel. Purple to match the lines of my graph paper or pink to match the colors in the old math textbook. Hmm. I just can’t picture it right now. 

I’ve got to get an early start tomorrow, but before I head to sleep, I figured I’d post a couple of things I’ve been reading…

For those unfamilar with my astoundingly routine music related habits, I’ve been reading some recent and old Spoon interviews. This always happens to some degree after seeing some good live music (just went to a Spoon show on Sunday). Music is so powerful I always have to wonder about it’s composed, how all of it’s individual parts get put together in just that perfect way. To be frank, it’s awe inspiring. So, I get very preoccupied with reading about the creative process from a musical standpoint, because it seems so foreign to me. I get even more preoccupied with reading about Spoon (mostly songwriter Britt Daniel) because of the attention to detail, their ability to remain within a certain sound but not be limited by that sound, etc. etc. So many things! Going to stop rambling now and just post those links–

Austin Chronicle article, “Drake Tungsten and His Boy Skellington” circa ‘98 or ‘99 – very interesting to read comments from the band when they were going through the toughest part of their career. 

Interview with Jim Eno from threemonkeysonline.com – in all these years of article reading, I think this is first I’ve read with Jim Eno as the subject.

Houston Chronicle article about Britt Daniel & the Bee Gees – correct me if I’m wrong, but I feel like talking about influences in music is easier than art. or at least more entertaining?

I have more, but in case anyone actually reads this, I’m going to try and seem less crazy.

Ok, sleep.