Photo suite 110 -- New Orleans jazz

Collage post mortem 7 -- play it again

I got many of my collage images from ads, and as I started looking at the ads closely I began to notice that the same image might appear in different sizes from one week to the next.  I also found the same image used in a news story repeated in smaller size on the front page or contents page to entice you inside.  These image pairs intrigued me and I started using them in the collages.

At first I just put the two images side by side:

 I also tried the swapped head technique:

and built scenarios around the duplicated images:

Art reader's digest

From "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)", Andy Warhol, 1975

Business art is the step that comes after Art.  I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.  After I did the thing called "art" or whatever it's called, I went into business art... Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.  During the hippie era people put down the idea of business -- they'd say, "Money is bad," and "working is bad," but making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Sign of the week

Collage post mortem 6 -- mix and match heads

Early in the year I discovered a collage technique that I used many times.  I found two heads of the same size, cut them apart, and swapped halves.  Either horizontal or vertical cuts worked well.  Surprisingly, mixing male and female heads made unisex characters who looked quite natural.

Kentucky is a hotbed of basketball, and last year was hotter than most, with our local team winning the NCAA championship and the team down the road as a perpetual contender.  By the time the season was over I was so sick of photos of coaches yelling (I think there's a rule of journalism against depicting coaches with their mouths shut) that I made this collage:

Collage post mortem 5 -- new heads

Just as I had fun in my 2013 collages pasting new eyes, ears and lips onto preexisting faces, I also pasted a lot of entirely new heads onto preexisting bodies.  Sometimes I tried to find a new head the same size as the original; other times the composition looked better if the new head was wildly out of sync with the body.