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Mucca Pazza Posters complete!

Limited series of 56, 1-color silkscreen with unique handmarking on each, 18x24”. Silkscreen printing by Sonnenzimmer.
Available at Mucca Pazza’s 3/25 show at Chicago’s Mayne Stage or from them directly: mucca-pazza.org

*See previous posts about this process on 2/18 and 2/22.

Big ups to Sonnenzimmer for ace printing of the blue!

Posters for Mucca Pazza, Pt.2

(part 1 of this post is here, and here are pics of finished work!).

finished lettering yesterday, gave electronic file to print aces Sonnenzimmer for the blue silkscreen part. word this afternoon that it’s done and being trimmed to 18x24” tomorrow — friday i’ll render the final paint marker stroke on each one, and then they’re off!

UPDATE: See here for the finished work, available at Mucca Pazza’s 3/25 show or from them directly: mucca-pazza.org

Art for Dil Pickle Club Revival 12/9/10

I made some art last Thursday to support an exciting new incarnation of Chicago’s legendary Dil Pickle Club, finishing just in time for sale at their event that night. 17 unique, poster-sized (18”x24”) text pieces with stenciled spraypaint and freehand marker were priced very accessibly to benefit the initiative and were well-received by guests, with one enthusiastic collector ensuring that none remained(!).

The original Dil Pickle Club was a legendary speakeasy/cabaret where creatives, activists, civic doers and all stripes of social misfit gathered in early-1900s Chicago, forming a vibrant hub of entertainment and proletarian intellectualism from the jazz-age through 1934. The phrase “Step High, Stoop Low, Leave Your Dignity Outside” was a sort of motto for the club and emblazoned on its door.

The organizers of this newest revival include Paul Genesius Durica, Fred Sasaki and Mairead Case, active agents in a number of creative communities and well-poised to carry the mantle, extend the rich tradition. Rather than a fixed location, this new Dil Pickle Club is an itinerant series featuring short presentations of off-beat, controversial and/or intellectual topics from a wide range of engaging guests at various venues all over town.

So, first I made a brown paper frame to lay on each sheet of paper and demarcate a “target zone,” then sprayed in the first and last words to establish boundaries for the image area.

I used a water-based acrylic latex spraypaint that I’ve recently fallen in love with, which can be used indoors(!) and and dries very quickly, along with a water-based poster marker.

With the top and bottom of the image area established, I varied placement of the rest of the stencilled words, and then really enjoyed the writing. Although several are similar, no two are the same, and a few are considerably different.

Lastly, I made a jig with a raised-letter label and rubbed a graphite stick across it to brand them as “official” Dil Pickle paraphanelia, next to which I wrote my name and the date.

Out of 20 I set out to make, I only goofed a little bit on three of them. After delivering the good ones with the good people at the Dil Pickle event, I finished up some other work for the morning and then took a couple of the goofed-up pieces and made this playful composite for kicks.