Posters

The last year or so, I've been hand-painting posters for my day job at the LIU Brooklyn Campus Library Media Center, having fun with some different genres.  Here's the three I've done so far. 

They're all acrylics and cheap poster paints and watercolor on heavy duty contractor's paper.  I found a roll of paper in a dumpster and thought I'd put it to use.  I started with the robot one, which was inspired by an old serial, then the musical one, which was inspired by Busby Berkeley musicals, and the beach one is up now.  That seemed right for summer.  For the fall, I might do something inspired by Pam Grier action movies from the 70's, though I'm not sure about that yet.

And I guess they're all inspired by the posters you see made all around the world, just that kind of handmade, casual, folky appearance.  And they're all the size of a big bulleten board, about four feet tall by six wide.  Approximately. 

A few things

I'm a painter.

You can wade through this weblog and see some of my work, read some of my thoughts and jottings.

This post is a reminder about some other places on the web where I do things, links to which are always on the right of this here bloggy thing.

Want to see a selection of my paintings? Go here.

Want see a lot of my paintings, drawings, prints, old work, photos of my studio? Here.

My day job is in the Media Center of the Library of Long Island University's Brookly Campus. Here's a newsletter I write there, mostly about movies in the collection.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled whatever.

a little fun with design

Amused myself a little bit this week, designing a poster for my day job. And I did it the kind of old fashioned way, with MS word and sticky labels and scissors. Thinking about Saul Bass, I guess. See the link to the right for more about my day job. If you really must know more about my day job.

In the studio

One of the reasons I've worked the same day job for so long, is that I get a nice amount of time off. I work in an academic library, and you can get an idea of what I do there here, where I amuse myself by writing about movies and other things in our collection. I'm not a librarian, because I've never had the urge to get that particular degree, but an example of why I stick around is coming up: Spring Break is next week, and I plan to spend most of that time in the studio. I have eight panels ready to go, a smallish canvas, and a bigger canvas, and about fifteen other paintings in process, so I am hoping for a pretty productive week. Actually, I've got things in pretty good shape as you can tell from those numbers, so even if I don't do much more than belch in the studio, it will automatically qualify as a productive week.